Category: Scripture Notes

The call the repentance is a plea of love – not the angry cry to awake guilt that it is often accused of being. When the cry of repentance is made in anger it comes from the wrong place. If we hear that cry it is because either or hearts are won’t before the Lord…

How is it that men are so unwise as to forget the Lord just when he is blessing them? This isn’t true of all individuals but it is generally true of societies as a whole.

In a time of global pandemic it is easier to imagine what it would be like for the Lord to bring famine to stir the people up to repentance. In an age with so much political rancor it is easier to imagine an era of so much hated in the people that plague would be…

Nephi must have felt a great place at hearing the words of the Lord. That would have been tempered by the sorrow at seeing the wickedness and hard-heartedness of the people as he delivered his message.

The wicked judges thought they were clever enough to trap Nephi and frame him for the murder. They hired that he was as corrupt as they were and had arranged a murderer to convince people to follow him. In their attempted trap he showed another miracle which truly convinced some people that he was a…

Note the difference between the vague accusations of the wicked judges against Nephi and the specific prophecy of Nephi regarding the wickedness of their nation shown in the murder of their chief judge.

When I see the inside trading of members of Congress it sure sounds like people in political power seeking gain (and praise) from their position – just like the Gadiantons that Nephites was showing against (not that I think they are all Gadiantons).

When Gadianton turned his secret band he had the group promise to murder Everett chief judge until he was elected. That is clearly the same spirit motivating the rivers who killed Cezoram and his son. Obviously the son of Cezoram want the desired chief judge. With our system of terms and term limits the Gadiantons…

When Aminadab spoke to the Nephite dissenters and Lamanites around him he referred to the teachings of Alma, Amulek and Zeezrom. That tells me that many of those around him were Zoramites.

The Nephites suffered a glaring wakeup call when they were driven to the borders of desolation by the Lamanites stirred up against them by Nephite dissenters. This time they choose to remember what they had been taught.