Now Alma is ready to bear his testimony and let the burden of his sermon rest on the souls of his listeners. In the previous verse he warned them to cast about their eyes, and read the scriptures that they might not perish. If they don’t heed his warning he says:
“If so, wo shall come upon you; but if not so, then cast about your eyes and begin to believe in the Son of God, that he will come to redeem his people, and that he shall suffer and die to atone for their sins; and that he shall rise again from the dead, which shall bring to pass the resurrection, that all men shall stand before him, to be judged at the last and judgment day, according to their works.”