“Who Reigneth”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet
Jehovah, who would yet take a tabernacle of flesh as Jesus of Nazareth, was here declared by the angel to be the God of ancient Israel whom the Book of Mormon prophets identified as “the very Eternal Father of heaven and of earth” (see Mosiah 3:8; Mosiah 16:15; Alma 11:39).

“The Lord Omnipotent”

Omnipotence consists in having all power. The testimony of the scriptures is that God indeed has all power, and that there is no power which he does not have (see D&C 19:3; D&C 61:1; D&C 93:17). In the Lectures on Faith, Joseph Smith said: “Unless God had power over all things, and was able by his power to control all things, and thereby deliver his creatures who put their trust in him from the power of all beings that might seek their destruction, whether in heaven, on earth, or in hell, men could not be saved” (Lectures on Faith 4:12). See also verses 17, 18, 21.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 2

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