The Nephites and Lamanites » Lehi’s Family Leaves Jerusalem

Six hundred years before the birth of Christ, most of the Jews living in Jerusalem were wicked. At that time, a prophet named Lehi was given a vision and he began to prophesy to the people about the coming messiah named Jesus, and he warned them to repent or else Jerusalem would be destroyed and the people killed by the Babylonians or taken away as captives.