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THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHI
CHAPTER 4
  4 For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we aknew of Christ, and we had a hope of his bglory many hundred years before his coming; and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy cprophets which were before us.

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Luke 24: 27.
  27 And beginning at aMoses and all the bprophets, he cexpounded unto them in all the dscriptures the things concerning himself.
1 Pet. 1: 11.
  11 Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it atestified beforehand the bsufferings of Christ, and the cglory that should follow.
Jacob 7: 11 (11-12).
  11 And I said unto him: Then ye do not understand them; for they truly testify of Christ. Behold, I say unto you that none of the aprophets have written, nor bprophesied, save they have spoken concerning this Christ.
Mosiah 13: 33 (33-35).
  33 For behold, did not Moses prophesy unto them concerning the coming of the Messiah, and that God should redeem his people? Yea, and even aall the prophets who have prophesied ever since the world began—have they not spoken more or less concerning these things?
D&C 20: 26.
  26 Not only those who believed after he came in the ameridian of time, in the bflesh, but all those from the beginning, even as many as were before he came, who believed in the words of the holy prophets, who cspake as they were inspired by the dgift of the Holy Ghost, who truly etestified of him in all things, should have eternal life,