David Journal

Tag: current events

  • Wickedness brewing to ripeness

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    I get the feeling that the time Alma and Amulek spend in prison in Ammonihah was to allow the people there to be separated and for the wished to become fully ripe unless they chose to repent. During their time there, any in the land who would choose righteousness were either killed or else they…

  • Led by a wicked leader

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    I have long comprehended (in theory) how a basically righteous people can be led to wickedness by a wicked leader but ASI read the account of Noah altering the affairs of the kingdom after his father made him king I saw the parallels with what had been happening in the GOP—rapidly accelerated when Trump became…

  • Modern parallels

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    I see so many modern things in these words: The people of Israel shall rule over those who were their oppressors? They rule over the Palestinians now and there may yet come a time when they stand in power over Iran/Iraq. He who smote the nations will be brought to ruin? That may be what…

  • Make their ears fat

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    Sometimes we need to understand that the ways of the Lord must allow for things to get worse and worse, sometimes seeming to be beyond the point of no return, in order to allow the transformations that His with requires. I wonder if we are watching one of those times in eastern Europe with Putin’s…

  • Would ye not behold quickly

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    O my brethren, if ye could be healed by merely casting about your eyes that ye might be healed, would ye not behold quickly, or would ye rather harden your hearts in unbelief, and be slothful, that ye would not cast about your eyes, that ye might perish Alma 33:21 I have always known that…

  • Letter to Senator Lee

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    I wrote the following letter to Senator Lee today regarding the second impeachment trial for Donald Trump: Senator Lee, I’m sure you, like the rest of your GOP senate colleagues, wish that you did not have to deal with the upcoming impeachment trial of the now-former president Trump. Almost the entire GOP caucus in the…

  • Letter to Senator Romney

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    I sent the following to Senator Romney in response to the mob violence on the 6th: Senator Romney, I have thought long and hard about the events of this last Wednesday (1/6/2021). At first I just wanted the whole thing to blow over. I thought, “let us wait out the next two weeks, the president…

  • Insurrection & Treason

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    I can’t go to bed without noting the acts of insurrection and treason that took place today. The President of the United States incited a mob to march against Congress. They succeed in disrupting the counting of electoral votes for hours – that process is proceeding slowly now. I have tried to contain my loathing…

  • Destruction and fear

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    As I read of the destruction at the death of Christ I realize that the fear those people experienced and the destruction they faced were so maybe that it makes or far and loss to coronavirus shrink to nothing. (Maybe a bit more than nothing in places like New York and Italy.)

  • Delayed response

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    The Nephites and Lamanites were in a much more sure position relative to the Gadianton rivers because they were slow to recognize or acknowledge the problem that was blossoming around them. Had they recognized and responded earlier the problem may not have grown to the proteins that it did – not unlike or current pandemic.