Mosiah 14

Abinadi quotes Isaiah 53, the great prophecy on Christ. Isaiah lived over 700 years before Christ and this prophecy is amazingly accurate. We have the blessing of having seen the prophecy fulfilled and history has proven the truth of what Isaiah said. With Abinadi and King Noah, it's still about 150 years before Christ will come and so they are faced with having a belief and faith in something that hasn't happened yet. We are in a similar situation, we have to have faith and belief that the prophecies of Christ's second coming are true. There as many specific prophecies of Christ's second coming as there were of his birth if not more. The Old Testament is full of symbolism and all things pointed to the coming of a Messiah. But since his birth, all prophecies and all religious events have dealt with the preparation for his second coming and the millennium. So just as the prophets before Christ testified of and prepared the people for Christ's birth, ministry and atonement, all prophets today testify of and are preparing the people for his second coming. Just as the people then had a choice in what they would believe, we have a similar choice today.