Tag: Alma

Alma 31 – 32I wonder what kind of idols Zoram was leading his people to bow to – it might have been things more like our modern idols than like the idols of Old Testament Egypt. The prayer of the Zoramites was like a prepared testimony – they claimed only belief (as opposed to actual…

Alma 30It’s rather funny to me that we marvel at the People of Nephi turning from the Lord after great destruction and beginning to quarrel within two years considering how quickly we tmade the same turn in our day after 9/11/2001 where within a year we were at eah other’s throats. Our society is full…

Alma 27 – 29Ammon must have felt very confident that going to live among the Nephites was the best thing that his beloved Lamanite brethren could do or he would never have considered suggesting that they go before the people first consulted the Lord.

Alma 25 – 26At every turn it appears that the Lord is sifting the people so that more and more of the Lamanites are converted. Slowly the Lamanite nation is becoming dominated by Nephite dissenters. That is the same sifting process that the Lord will continue to use in these last days until all who…

Alma 23 – 24It sounds like chapter 23 is where much of the 14 years passed as the gospel was preached without impediment among the Lamanites and the tensions began to rise between those who believed and those who refused to accept this Nephite teaching and were prone to be influenced by the hatred of…

Alma 21 – 22in chapter 21 it almost sounds like Aaron did some preaching in the land after being saved from the prison in Middoni before he arrived at the home of the king over all the Lamanites. In chapter 22 however it sounds like we basically went directly there after being rescued from Middoni.…

Alma 19 – 20Abish had probably believed in God for longer than Ammon – funny thought. She had been converted many years earlier but Ammon had only been converted for a few years before commencing his mission – this took place about a week after he entered the land of the Lamanites.

Alam 17 – 18What the sons of Mosiah undertook could be called a righteous crusade – going up among those who were known as their enemies and taking a select group of people with them to combat their enemy. Unlike the Christian crusades to Jerusalem they knew their real enemy to be the devil and…

Alma 15 – 16I’m surprised at how little attention the conversion of Zeezrom receives considering that it was almost as dramatic as the conversion of Paul or Alma – the difference is that Zeezrom converted because of the teachings of a man and he did not later keep records that became scripture. Alma’s preparatory work…

Alma 13 – 14I have always been interested in this because of the promises outlined for those who are high priests. Today I realize that some of the things that are said are applicable to the higher priesthood (i.e. the Melchizedek Priesthood) while others are more specifically meant for the office of high priest. Notice…