When Abinadi prophesied about the seed of King Noah I think he was talking both about them putting people to death by fire for their belief and also the fact that they would subsequently be hunted for doing so. It’s very clear about that in Alma 25:12 but I had always focused on what the seed of those priests would do and not much on what would happen to them.
Who could have supposed that our God would have been so merciful as to have snatched us from our awful, sinful, and polluted state?
Behold, we went forth even in wrath, with mighty threatenings to destroy his church.
Oh then, why did he not consign us to an awful destruction, yea, why did he not let the sword of his justice fall upon us, and doom us to eternal despair?
Oh, my soul, almost as it were, fleeth at the thought. Behold, he did not exercise his justice upon us, but in his great mercy hath brought us over that everlasting gulf of death and misery, even to the salvation of our souls.
Alma 26:17-20
This is the accurate portrayal of the attitude of God regarding sin and repentance, justice and mercy. He prefers mercy and repentance to just condemnation.
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