1Ne Ch19

This chapter had a sort of history and prophesy to it. 

Nephi talks about his two different records that we know of as the small and large plates of Nephi. He was commanded of The Lord to write the record of his people for the instruction of his people and other wise purposes (v1-3). He explains the difference in importance in both plates where the other will have wars and contentions and these will have what he considers sacred (v4-6). 

Nephi flat out says that Christ will come 600 years from the time they all left Jerusalem. There's nothing hidden about that (v8). Nephi has seen his coming in vision and knows that the people "shall judge him to be a thing of naught," but He suffereth all their cruelty "because of his loving kindness and his long-suffering towards the children of men" (v7-9).

v10 seems long and confusing when you first read it, but let me tell you what it says without any of the extra: "The God of our fathers,...yieldeth himself,...into the hands of wicked men, to be lifted up,...and to be cruicified,...and to be buried in a sepulcher." All that extra is Nephi citing his sources of where this knowledge came from. We also find out that there is a sign of three days of darkness given to those who won't be present to see Christ being crucified.

The Lord God will then visit all the house of Israel either with his natural voice, or with thundering a and lightnings (v11) Zenos is the prophet that Nephi has learned all this knowledge from and also about the future. The Jews will be scourged by all people because they rejected their God (v12-14). But they will get a second chance to turn their hearts to the Holy One of Israel. They will be gathered in to the covenant that The Lord will remember and promise to every nation (v15-17).

Nephi writes because he knows this to be true and wants his people to be persuaded to be righteous (v18-19). His joints are weak from working in the spirit so long, and he was shown the truth by The Lord (v20-21). Nephi teaches his brethren (and us from his records) of these things so we can liken them to us and know that Jesus Christ lives (v22-23). I also try to teach these words so everyone can know the goodness which is in the Book of Mormon, so "hear he the words of the prophet...and liken them unto yourselves, that ya may have hope" (v24).