Believers Ridiculed

About five years after Samuel's prophecies, the faithful were mocked by their enemies, who said, "The time is past, and the words of Samuel are not fulfilled; therefore, your joy and your faith concerning this thing hath been vain" (3 Nephi 1:9).

As the five-year mark neared, the faithful began "to be very sorrowful, lest by any means those things which had been spoken might not come to pass" (3 Nephi 1:8).