David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • The sanitized story

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    I can’t read the story of David and Bathsheba without concluding that there is more to the story. This is the official, sanitized version and even in the sanitized version we see how far away from his duty David was. I’m confident that the full version would show us that what David did we far…

  • Limited understanding

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    Even David eu was consistently intent on giving honor to the Lord seems to have had limited understanding of what to expect from the Lord. It seems that a deep knowledge of God was not had upon the earth at that time.

  • Wickedness brewing to ripeness

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    I get the feeling that the time Alma and Amulek spend in prison in Ammonihah was to allow the people there to be separated and for the wished to become fully ripe unless they chose to repent. During their time there, any in the land who would choose righteousness were either killed or else they…

  • The land of Salem

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    In telling the story of the land of Salem under Melchizedek, Alma is offering hope to the people of Ammonihah who he has been calling to repentance. “The people of Salem repented from gross wickedness and you can too.”

  • From personal experience

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    When Alma talked about how sinners would feel standing before God he was speaking from experience because he had a taste of that feeling when he was first visited by the angel and he had wanted to cease existing rather than stand before God.

  • A greater or lesser portion

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    When Alma talks about people receiving more knowledge or losing even the knowledge they have based on their receptivity he was speaking directly to Zeezrom and I think Zeezrom knew it.

  • The sons of Jesse

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    What was it about the older sons of Jesse that the Lord did not choose them? The Lord looked in their hearts and chose David but I wonder why. Did he see in them an element of unfaithfulness to the Lord or was it something more mundane like timidity? Were they more susceptible to the…

  • Samuel mourned for Saul

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    After Saul had repeatedly ignored the instructions of the Lord that Samuel delivered I don’t thing Samuel was surprised that Saul was rejected and yet he mourned for Saul. That is evidence of his genuine love for a son of God who had lost his way.

  • Give them what they want

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    God didn’t fight the unrighteous desire of the people. He let them have a king and he selected one who was surely the kind of man the perks would have chosen (tall, strong, etc.) So there is no way they could say that Samuel sabotaged them.

  • Careless wording

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    Zeezrom was very aware of the difference between what he asked “will God save His people in their sins” and the truth that God will save people from their sins. I’m sure he used trucks often to manipulate people who were not careful with their words or to make people think he was not being…