"The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and [for] all the house of Israel his companions: And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand. (Ezekiel 37:15-17)

It is impossible for Ezekiel 37 to teach that the Bible is the stick of Judah and Book of Mormon is the stick of Ephraim.

1. Ezekiel was to do the writing.

a. The one stick for Judah, and for the children of Israel could not be the Bible. Ezekiel did not write the Bible. He wrote only one book. God used 40 men writing on 66 separate scrolls to produce the Bible. Writing the Bible took a period of 1600 years.

b. The other stick for Joseph, the stick of Ephraim could not be the Book of Mormon. Mormons claim that The Book of Mormon is an abridgment of ancient records written by Mormon and Moroni.

Again Ezekiel was not the author of the abridgment or the ancient records.

a. "And when I looked, behold, an hand was sent unto me; and, lo, a roll of a book [was] therein; And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe. (Ezekiel 2:9-10)

b. The Hebrew word translated "stick" in Ezekiel 37 is pronounced "ets" and is translated in the Old Testament by ten different English words: 1) gallows, 2) helve, 3) plank, 4) staff, 5) stalk, 6) stick, 7) stock, 8) timber, 9) tree, 10) wood. "Ets" is never translated "roll," "scroll," "book," "record," "parchment," "plate," or "papyri."

The Book of Mormon could not fulfill this prophecy.

To fulfill this prophecy the Nephites (who supposedly wrote the Book of Mormon) would have to be descendants of Joseph through his son EPHRAIM (Ezek. 37:16). The Book of Mormon, however, teaches otherwise.

"And Aminadi was a descendant of Nephi, who was the son of Lehi, who came out of the land of Jerusalem who was a descendant of MANASSEH, who was the son of Joseph who was sold into Egypt by the hands of his brethren" (Alma 10:3).

5. God's interpretation of this object lesson is seen in Ezekiel 37:22. It tells us the then-divided nation of Israel would be reunited again in the land under one king. Note the same "nicknames" for the two divisions of Israel (Judah, Ephraim) in Hosea 5:3-14 and 6:4.

The Bible does not predict the Book of Mormon, nor is there any need for another witness that Jesus is the Christ. There are 66 books in the Holy Bible and the apostle John says "But these are written, that ye might believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God; and that believing ye might have life through his name." (John 20:31)