The Gentiles, to whom the restoration of the Gospel came, will fail to repent and return to the Lord, and will doom themselves to destruction.
The land reverts back to those to whom it was originally promised. They, the rightful heirs, will "go through among them, and shall tread them down." What does it mean to be "tread down?"
When salt has lost its savor, it becomes useless. The preservative has become a contaminant. The corruption, the abominable religion, is worse than what they were before inheriting the fullness of the Gospel. They have sinned against a greater light. And in the process they have rejected the Greatest Light of all.
What did the Gentiles do to become salt without savor? Why are they good for nothing but to be cast out? Why is it appropriate that the Gentiles who previously cast out and trod down previous inheritors should now be trodden down? What did the earlier heirs do to merit destruction at the hands of the Gentiles? How does the cycle seem to repeat itself in the actions of both of these peoples?
Why do the trodden down peoples, who were the first heirs, remain the "Lord's people" even when they have been dispossessed of the land and destroyed by the Gentiles? Why are the first to become the last, and the last to become the first? Why do such cycles of history repeat themselves? Why is the Book of Mormon unable to help the Gentiles avoid this cycle of destruction? Was the Book of Mormon intended to help the Gentiles avoid their fate? What did the Gentiles do with the Book of Mormon instead of using it as a guide to avoid destruction?
These prophecies are spoken by Christ, but ordained by the Father. What does it tell us about the Father's involvement with this unfolding history? How does the "foot of my people" reflect symbolically upon the process of destruction? If the Gentiles have rejected the fullness of the Lord's Gospel, but the feet of those who cry peace are beautiful upon the mountains, why do the one people get trodden and the others tread upon them? Why are clean feet preserved and the filthy cast out and trodden down?
How serious a matter is this Gospel? How should we conduct ourselves toward the Gospel? What is the Gospel's fullness?
This becomes more than interesting; it is gripping.