Tag: Ether

Moroni warns the modern reader to avoid letting the secret combinations “get above you” and later he declares that these secret combinations will be “among you.” I think that difference is important. It is naive to think that there are no secret combinations in our society but we must strive against their rise to power…

The reign of Shule is interesting as it displays a period with a righteous ruler during a time when the was much wickedness operating against his rule. The people were administered for their wickedness and I imagine that if Shule had been a weak or unrighteous ruler they might not have repented.

How did the first Jaredites maintain their efforts to sing praises to the Lord during the whole course of their yearlong journey? It seems to me that most people would grow bored, tired, or unhappy rather than maintain their efforts.

While the full translation of the record of Ether was not meant to be translated with the rest of the gold plates, Moroni ensured that we would know the content of that sealed portion because he gave a synopsis of that record. While the details were to remain hidden, the hand of the Lord was…

All people must choose for themselves if they will rend the veil of unbelief and receive the grater things that the Lord is willing and able to reveal.

When Alma instructed Helaman not to reveal the secret oaths of the Jaredites to the people he must also have instructed him to keep safe the record of the Lord visiting the brother of Jared face to face. Now that knowledge is no longer meant to be kept hidden.

I have come to believe that when we are told that the brother of Jared failed to call upon the Lord for 4 years it doesn’t mean that he never prayed in that time. I believe it means that the prayers he offered were likely perfunctory and that he was assuming he knew the will…

I think most people would assume that being driven out of the land would be a bad thing but clearly Jared saw it as a potential blessing. I find it as no coincidence that Moroni twice at the end of his father’s record invited men to pray with faith for whatever they needed and depend…

Coriantumr misunderstood what Shiz was fighting for. He offered him the kingdom twice but Shiz didn’t care about the kingdom. His only soon was revenge. Ruling the kingdom was simply what would be left when he achieved his aim. At what point we’re the people left desolate? I would say once there were only men…

I didn’t realize that Ether prophesied to Coriantumr long before either Lib or Shiz came to power. Perhaps none before Shiz would have pursued Coriantumr even to the loss of the last man.