“These are not just history lessons but lessons from history. History is what has already happened; scripture is what happens and will happen. ‘Things … which are to come’ signifies prophecy, and prophecy is history in reverse. Jacob said the reason he read Isaiah to his audience is twofold: his brother Nephi wanted it read (he had read it to them before; see 1 Nephi 19:22–23), and Isaiah’s words can be applied to the Nephites as well as all Israel. The Book of Mormon and Isaiah were both written for our day” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:138–39).