By 'Rabbi' James Trimm
Jeremiah 31:31-33 Behold, the days come, saith YHWH, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith YHWH: But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith YHWH, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their Elohim, and they shall be my people.
When the Book of Mormon talks about the 'unfolding of the revelation of John' at Ether 4:7-16, it is refering to this time in Biblical history in the future, when the seals will be opened for a complete manifestation of the renewed covenant with Israel.
The Book of Mormon tells us that the sealed portion will not be opened in the day of wickedness, so the final sealed portion would be at the culmination of renewed covenant with Israel [Jer 31] and is a reference to a book mentioned in Isaiah 29:
For YHWH has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep...
The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book
that is sealed...
therefore, behold I will again do a marvelous work among this
people, a marvelous work and a wonder...
In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of
darkness.
(Is. 29:10, 11, 14, 18)
The Book of Mormon tells us that the sealed portion will not be opened in the day of wickedness, so the final sealed portion would be at the culmination of renewed covenant with Israel [Jer 31] and is a reference to a book mentioned in Isaiah 29:
For YHWH has poured out on you the spirit of deep sleep...
The whole vision has become to you like the words of a book
that is sealed...
therefore, behold I will again do a marvelous work among this
people, a marvelous work and a wonder...
In that day the deaf shall hear the words of the book, and
the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of
darkness.
(Is. 29:10, 11, 14, 18)
Dt. 30:1-4:
Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon
you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you,
and you call them to mind among all the nations where YHWH
your God drives you, and you return to YHWH your God and
obey his voice, according to all that I have commanded you
today, you and your children, with all your heart and with
all your soul, And YHWH your God will bring you back from
captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again
from all the nations where YHWH your God has scattered you.
Now it shall come to pass, when all these things come upon
you, the blessing and the curse which I have set before you,
and you call them to mind among all the nations where YHWH
your God drives you, and you return to YHWH your God and
obey his voice, according to all that I have commanded you
today, you and your children, with all your heart and with
all your soul, And YHWH your God will bring you back from
captivity, and have compassion on you, and gather you again
from all the nations where YHWH your God has scattered you.
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All of these things demonstrate that the Book of Mormon is a fulfillment of the typology of Rosh HaShanna and Yom Kippur.
Joseph Smith received the Book of Mormon on Sept. 21, 1827 and that day was Rosh HaShanna and the year was the birth of Zionism wherein the beginning of the restoration of the children of Israel to the land of Israel occured. More importantly, it also marked the beginning of the days of repentance leading to the fulfillment of Yom Kippur with the revealing of the sealed portion.
Yahushua predicted that when the Lamanites came into the knowledge of the true gospel, that a parallel event would be that the Gentiles would reject Torah [3 Ne 16:4-17/Isaiah 52:8-10]. Those Gentiles are the Gentiles who brought the Book of Mormon gospel to the Lamanites and many of them will not repent and hear the Torah, due to listening to the precepts of men over the Word of YHWH.