Tag: 3 Nephi

If our government was destroyed I think our sickest would fracture like the Nephite society did but I wonder upon what lines it would organize. I suspect that religion would be one way that groups would form. Some groups would form around geography. Few would form around family because few families are large enough anymore…

It always amazes me that the lawyers and judges became so corrupted by their power in so short a time that they revived the secret oaths that they had so recently eradicated after nearly being destroyed by the robbers of Gadianton.

The thirtieth year where the nation began to be broken up by classes sounds similar to our world today. We have those who return railing for railing and those few who refuse to revile again when they are reviled.

I have often wondered why, when the people gathered their provisions they included their gold – to me that didn’t seem like a necessity. When I read tonight that they divided what remained of their provisions that they hadn’t existed during the war, including some portion of their gold, I realized that they may have…

Once all the rivers had been killed or captured, the people taught them the gospel. They were free to go once they covenanted to abandon murder and plunder among the people. How could they be sure that the robbers wouldn’t make the promise simply to be freed?

The Nephites were never seriously challenged by the robbers after they went to the extraordinary length of gathering all their substance to one place and leaving their land desolate. The robbers has been suffering in the rod of guerrilla plundering that they were used to but had no clue how to contend with well defended…

When the record says that the Nephites left their land desolate so that the robbers couldn’t subsist in their cities I just realized that they may have gone so far as to tear down orchards and/or other sources of ongoing food production which would have taken years to rebuild once they defeated the Gadiantons.

The Nephites were fortunate to be lead by prophets as they faced the threat by the Gadiantons.

Giddianhi sounds a lot like Donald Trump – speaking boldly and acting as if his cause were just and he was in the right – when he knows as well as he stands that he is selling only for his own power and influence without regard to what is good or right.

It only took less than fifteen years from the time of the sign for the people to be so threatened by the Gadiantons that the Nephites and Lamanites united against the rivers for their very survival.