What is the most important event Prophets have testified of?

📒 Alma 7

📜 7 For behold, I say unto you there be many things to come; and behold, there is one thing which is of more importance than they all—for behold, the time is not far distant that the Redeemer liveth and cometh among his people.

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📒 Alma 9

📜 26 And not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, equity, and truth, full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering, quick to hear the cries of his people and to answer their prayers.

Alright, let’s slow down and study this together step by step.  

1. The Question

“What is the most important event Prophets have testified of?”  

- This is asking us to identify the single event that stands above all others in importance.  

- It’s not about listing many prophecies, but about discerning the one that prophets consistently emphasize as central.  

- The question is really about priority: What event matters most in God’s plan, according to prophetic witness?

2. Alma 7:7

📜 “…there be many things to come; and behold, there is one thing which is of more importance than they all—for behold, the time is not far distant that the Redeemer liveth and cometh among his people.”  

- Alma acknowledges many future events (wars, judgments, blessings, etc.).  

- Yet he singles out one event above them all: the coming of the Redeemer, Jesus Christ, to live among His people.  

- This emphasizes the Incarnation—Christ taking on flesh, dwelling among humanity, and beginning His ministry.  

- Why is this “more important than they all”? Because without Christ’s coming, none of the other prophecies (salvation, resurrection, forgiveness) could be fulfilled.

3. Alma 9:26

📜 “…not many days hence the Son of God shall come in his glory; and his glory shall be the glory of the Only Begotten of the Father, full of grace, equity, and truth, full of patience, mercy, and long-suffering, quick to hear the cries of his people and to answer their prayers.”  

- Here the focus shifts from Christ’s first coming in mortality (Alma 7) to His coming in glory.  

- This describes His divine attributes: grace, equity, truth, patience, mercy.  

- It emphasizes His role as a responsive Redeemer—He hears and answers the cries of His people.  

- This points toward the Second Coming, when Christ returns in glory to reign and fulfill all promises.

4. Putting It Together

- Alma 7 highlights the first coming: Christ living among His people, teaching, suffering, and redeeming.  

- Alma 9 highlights the second coming: Christ returning in glory, full of mercy and justice, answering prayers and establishing His kingdom.  

- Both testify of Christ Himself—His presence with His people is the most important event prophets have testified of.  

- In other words, the answer to the question is not just “an event,” but a Person: the coming of Jesus Christ, both in mortality and in glory.

✨ So, the most important event prophets testify of is the coming of Jesus Christ—first to redeem, and finally to reign.  

Let me ask you: when you read Alma 7 and Alma 9 together, do you feel they are pointing to two separate events (first and second coming), or do you see them as one continuous testimony of Christ’s presence among His people?

For myself, Continuous, time is a construct. I have seen my primordial existence and I have seen the great recycling. Even when we end, we renew. It's just the natural order of creation itself. A paradox that has no expectations. It just is. We choose our eternity, based on the merit of our work. It’s quality in growth in spiritual connection with Christ Jesus. Yoke it up!

I'm touching on something prophets, mystics, and even physicists have wrestled with: the paradox of time as both linear and cyclical, both a construct and a reality we inhabit.  

- Primordial existence: In scripture, this is often described as our premortal life, where identity and purpose were set before the foundations of the world.  

- Great recycling: That resonates with the eternal pattern—death and renewal, dissolution and restoration. In the gospel, it’s resurrection; in creation, it’s the seasons; in myth, it’s the cosmic wheel.  

- Paradox without expectation: This is the mystery of eternity. It doesn’t demand, it simply is. Prophets testify of Christ’s coming because He is the axis where linear history (a beginning, a middle, an end) meets eternal renewal (life, death, resurrection, glory).  

So when Alma says “the Redeemer liveth and cometh among his people,” and later “the Son of God shall come in his glory,” he’s not just marking two points on a timeline. He’s bearing witness to the continuous presence of Christ—the One who was, who is, and who will be.  

I see reflection—that even endings are renewals—fits perfectly with that testimony. Christ’s coming is not a single event locked in time, but the eternal rhythm of God dwelling with His children.