David Journal

Category: Scripture Notes

  • Good vs bad leaders

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    Wicked leaders tend to bring their people down towards their level of wickedness but while righteous leaders will try to lead the people to be better they are not guaranteed to be successful because they will not force people to be righteous. They only enforce what is truly enforcible – and that doesn’t include intent.

  • Contingency plans

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    I suspect that Gadianton had planned his getaway in advance without letting Kishkumen know in case Kishkumen failed or was caught. Not letting Kishkumen know would ensure that Kishkumen could not divulge that contingency plan.

  • One generation

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    It is amazing to think that the sons of Pahoran, who had thought against king-men to retain his judgement seat, had not all learned to value the form of government such that they would reject the aid of murderers and those seeking for power.

  • How did it feel?

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    With the deaths of all their major leaders in a few short years and the migration of large numbers of people out of the land I wonder if people at the time felt that momentous things were happening or if they felt that life was on a steady plane for their nation.

  • Turning points

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    How often does one small change precipitate a complete change of direction in larger events? That was what happened when Moroni went to Pahoran to restore him to the judgement seat and to deal with the king-men who had been hampering the previous efforts to conduct the war.

  • Humility

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    Pahoran respond so humbly and openly to Moroni that Moroni must have been happy to go assist him in regaining his judgement seat.

  • Show a true spirit

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    I can see how Pahoran would take confidence from Moroni’s censure. Moroni didn’t direct his ire at Pahoran but at those seeking for power. Not only that, whatever demands Moroni made, he was clear that his request was to find their hearts not set on themselves. No matter how restored Pahoran felt he knew that…

  • Mounting frustrations

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    In the midst of a glimmer of good news Moroni is thrown back to reality with another unexpected setback as the city of Nephihah falls to the Lamanites. I know that feeling of taking hit after hit and how it hurts more when coming in the heels of finish feeling like something was starting to…

  • Ever changing tactics

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    When we find something that works we can’t rest on our success because the adversary is constantly learning and trying to counter anything that has succeeded before. It is because he understood this principle that Moroni was constantly upgrading his defenses and his tactics.

  • Blessed to burdensome levels

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    Helaman and his men were able to capture so many Lamanites and provisions to the point that they couldn’t maintain all the prisoners. They faced the challenge of how to manage all their prisoners.