David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Preparation

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    Even expecting that they will be led to a promised land, the people of Jared prepared every needful thing for the land they would come to, bringing seeds, fish and even honey bees to make the land fruitful when they arrived.

  • It’s there a pattern?

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    The neither of hatred repeatedly asked things in prayer which were answered promptly. Is there a pattern to be understood in knowing which requests will get such quick attention vs which ones will only receive answers “in the Lord’s time”? I know that I have received prompt answers on a variety of requests and yet…

  • No wasting resources

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    Moroni makes it clear that he can’t afford to waste resources of time, energy or ore with this record. He confines himself to those parts of the record which are not already available through other sources.

  • Why that detail?

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    I wonder why it is that Moroni felt it necessary to explain the languages used by the Nephites for their records. What do we learn by knowing that the language was one that would have no known origin to modern academics? Is that a fact that would earn us that no 19th century escolar could…

  • Doubting nothing

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    I think it is important to note that the promise of receiving “whatsoever thing they should ask” is for those who”believe in Christ doubting nothing.” I have to imagine that those which such solid believe either all t for things differently than most or are very careful about what they ask because of the nature…

  • Eternal torment

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    I love how Moroni makes it so clear that those who reject Christ and His gospel would need more uncomfortable living with God and feeling their guilt at rejecting Christ than they would living with the tormented should in hell. We would not be happy enjoying higher blessings for eternity while feeling like hypocrites because…

  • The oppressed cry for vengeance

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    Those with means are lifted up in price and forget those in need but those in need will cry out for justice and the Lord will be mindful of their cries.

  • Seeing with the eye of faith

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    Moroni knew as he hid up the plates that they would come forth unto the fulfilling of the prophecies. How do I learn to truly see with the eye of faith? I can say that everything will work out but then I get discouraged as things get harder and I worry that they won’t really…

  • A sacred trust

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    Mormon recognized that even after the Nephites had been destroyed the care if the sacred records was not to be abandoned so long as a righteous person lived. With his people wiped out he only had himself and his son, Moroni, who could take charge of the plates. I expect that he told Moroni everything…

  • “If ye believe that”

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    When Mormon tells the descendants of Lehi that “if ye believe that (the record of the Jews that will come to the gentiles and from the gentiles to you) ye will believe this also” i had always understood that to mean anyone who truly believed the Bible would naturally believe the Book of Mormon. I…