Tag: 3 Nephi

I never before connected the fact that when Christ is introduced and when he introduced himself, the people likely recognized his voice from when he spoke to them in the darkness after his death.

For some reason I had it in my head that most of all of the death at the death of Christ came during the initial 3 hours of unparalleled destruction. As I read this time I realized that the quaking and destruction didn’t entirely cease after 3 hours and on top of that the vapor…

Jesus reports to the people the punishments that have been doled out for justice and them mercifully invites the people to come unto Him and be saved. How many people found it hard, at least temporarily, to want to come unto the being who had caused their loved ones to be burned or buried?

I don’t recall anything in the prophecy of Samuel the Lamanite where he indicates the timing of the death of Christ. He tells what the signs will be but doesn’t indicate how long it will be until they come. Why then did the people begin to look for those signs just as the time arrived…

I have often wondered if our society will ever fracture the way the Nephite society did shortly before the death of Christ. Part of me thinks we eventually will but I’m fully confident that we could – the potential is there because if so much unrighteousness and distrust. We could break into a federation of…

How in only five years did the Nephites go from defeating the Gadianton robbers in open warfare to forming their item secret combinations to overthrow their government and establish a king? These are the very people who fought for getting lives against just such a secret combination.

I hadn’t realized that this period existed, only a few years before the death of Jesus, when every living soul of the Nephites was converted. I knew that they, as a whole, repented but hadn’t noticed that it was every soul and not simply the society at large. That makes their fall all the more…

Giddianhi tried to scare the Nephites – instead they prepared and when he was forced to make good on his threats he was killed in retreat. Zemnarihah tried to cut the Nephites if from their supplies and starve then it off their stronghold. Instead his people began to starve and the Nephites defeated and hanged…

The time when the Gadianton Rivers were very strong such that they laid water to cities sounds like the drug cartels in Mexico. The time when literally all the people were compelled to take up arms to defend themselves against these robbers is a possibility that we could yet face in our day. We are…