Tag: Ether

With the Book of Mormon the Lord set a foundation for success by giving multiple witnesses to it’s veracity at the beginning. Likewise, the brother of Jared tried to set his people up for success by refusing to compel anyone to be king and recommending against a king at all.

After telling the story of the brother of Jared and his marvelous experience Moroni invites the reader to receive greater things than have been made known openly if they will believe in Christ.

The brother of Jared came to the Lord seeking light for the barges but he was also blessed to receive incredible spiritual light as part of this experience.

Twice the Lord spoke directly to the brother of hated from behind a covering (cloud in one case but I’m not sure it specified in the other). I’m confident these interactions – one positive and one a reprimand – served to prepare him for the day he would see the finger and then the body…

Jared knew that the Lord would clinging the language of the people with enough advanced warning to ask his brother to pray that they would be spared that confusion. This tells me that the people were not punished without warning that they needed to repent – which would be consistent with the pattern that the…

What kind of bloodlust the people must have felt to destroy themselves entirely within 8 days. The only person who wasn’t fully poisoned among the two armies was Coriantumr – who actually wrote to ask Shiz to stop the fight. That isn’t to say that Coriantumr was righteous, just that he had a spark of…

Why are the wicked so sweet on gaining vergence? Amalikiah sought to become king of the Nephites, defected, usurped the Lamanite throne and went to battle at the Nephites. When he was killed during the invasion his brother sweetie vergence against the Nephites. That’s sounds very much like Lib who killed the high priest who…

What was it like for Ether to have all the people rejecting his words and selling to kill him? How discouraging was that for him?

Notice that the Lord doesn’t promise the righteous desire of Moroni, despite his faith and his faithfulness. When Moroni prayed that the gentiles would have charity the Lord didn’t make a promise that might interfere with their agency which He knew to be of more importance than charity for Moroni and the words he was…

The Jaredites consistently rejected the warnings of prophets for several generations (at least 3 generations with no more than a minor and temporary reduction in wickedness during that time). Is it any wonder with that history that they would become as hardened as we find them at the end of their nation?