“When a people cast out and slay the prophets and the saints, that people shall perish. Figuratively, Nephi speaks of the blood of the ground crying out and ascending to God against them. In the same context and in words similar to a passage in Malachi 4:1, Nephi speaks of the proud and those who do wickedly being burned in a day that would come (2 Nephi 26:4). The doctrine spoken of is the cleansing of the earth by fire at the second coming of the Lord” (Nyman, “Come to Understanding and Learn Doctrine,” 29–30).