“Nephites, though separated from their forebears and kindred by oceans of water, yet kept the law of Moses. (2 Ne. 5:10; Jarom 1:5; Hel. 15:5.) But they did so with a proper understanding, knowing that salvation was in Christ who should come and that ‘the law of Moses was a type of his coming.’ (Alma 25:15–16.) … To them the law was not an end in itself, but a means to an end. The blindness of their Jewish relatives in the Old World came ‘by looking beyond the mark’ (Jacob 4:14), meaning they did not have a proper perspective of the law and know how it was designed to lead them to Christ and his gospel” (McConkie, Promised Messiah, 420).