Day 20 - 1 Nephi 15:1-18

1 Nephi 15 - The gathering of Israel is likened unto an olive tree whose natural branches will be grafted in again.

"If ye will not harden your hearts, and ask me in faith, believing that ye shall receive, with diligence in keeping my commandments, surely these things shall be made known unto you."

 "Both the justice of God and the laws of nature mandate a division of the wicked from the righteous.  The warmth and glory of the noonday sun and midnight's shield of darkness are not compatible companions-light and darkness will never meet, Christ and Satan will never shake hands.  The separation of the righteous from the wicked in the world to come is foreshadowed by their separation in mortality.  This life, like the one to follow, has its children of light and its children of darkness.  The citizens of both kingdoms prepare themselves here for the nature of the society of which they will be a part both in and after death." (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, vol. 1, p. 121)