Lehi cannot bless this lineage to avoid the fate that will befall them, but he can bless them that the eternal consequences of that fate will not be as severe. Certainly the blessing that the lineage should not perish has a temporal fulfillment, but the nature of the prophecies of the restoration of the gospel bringing the light back to Lehi's descendants would indicate that Lehi saw this prophecy in as much a spiritual as a temporal sense.