Tag: Ether

Ether 5 – 6 How did Joseph feel when he read these words directed to him? How did his scribe at the time feel (Oliver, I believe)? All the perpetrations of the hardies before they boarded their ships must have taken weeks if not months. How did they keep track of time while they were…

Ether 4 I wonder if having the knowledge of what was revealed to the brother of Jared was part of what helped the Nephites to stay righteous as long as they did after the coming of Christ. If so that would also explain why the people are fully culpable when they did turn their backs…

Ether 3 Why did the brother of Jared ask that the Lord touch the stones? Could he not have simply asked the Loud to make them shine without specifying that they be touched? I have always assumed that the two stones that the Ltd have the brother of Jared were from among the sixteen stones…

Ether 1 – 2 I have marveled before at how much information was packed into 29 plates since the book of Ether is 30 pages long and Moroni tells us that he skipped the history of the world from Adam to the Tower of Babel and other things which were recorded on those 29 plates.…

Ether 15 It is difficult to comprehend four years of gathering such that there was only one individual not aligned with one army or the other and then to have only two individuals left alive after one week—one who was to live to see the land given to another people, and one who was alive…

Ether 14 While Coriantumr stayed in the wilderness for two years after his throne was captured the throne changed hands twice among his enemies because of the secret combinations among them.

Ether 13 What a marvelous olive branch the Lord offered Coriantumr. If he and his household would repent, not only would the Lord spare him but the Lord would spare the people and allow Coriantumr to retain the kingdom. The downside of the offer was that it he refused none save Coriantumr would be spared…

Ether 12 It is interesting to consider (and I’ve probably mentioned it before) that Ether was likely the rightful heir to the throne but he had no inclination to challenge Coriantumr. His only wish was to bring people to repentance. I very much see the path of faith before us—pressing forward in this path of…

Ether 11 I wonder what the prophets prophesied to Com. The people rejected them but Com protected them. He was busy fighting against secret combinations which were robbing and murdering within his kingdom but was not prevailing (probably because his people were not also fighting against them). What would these prophets have been prophesying to…

Ether 10 So Shez built up a righteous kingdom but there was enough wickedness that his son rebelled and was killed by someone stealing from him. Not only that but his immediate successor was not righteous. Once again we see that a righteous king can influence and encourage but not force his people to be…