Tag: Ether

Ether 1 – 2I have no evidence of this but I wonder if we will receive an unadulterated and unabridged account of the history of the earth prior to the flood as part the record of the lost tribes. (I mean unabridged from a spiritual sense, not in the sense of having a complete record…

Ether 15I find it incomprehensible that Ether should have to behold the carnage of the destruction of the Jaredites – he must have had a great deal of strength from the Lord to be able to deal with that degree of evil and destruction among a people he had worked so hard to teach.

Ether 14In very poor society it is common for each person to hold all that they own with them at all times. In this society, which had been very wealthy, they were reduced to this kind of poverty because of wickedness whereby if they did not physically hold to something they would lose it. No…

Ether 13I had never noticed it before but Moroni indicates here that Ether spoke of Jerusalem being destroyed and then being rebuilt as a holy city unto the Lord for the House of Israel. That indicates that we will see the city of Jerusalem which now stands destroyed before the coming of Christ (unless it…

Ether 12In a time of as much wickedness as the days of Coriantumr how did someone have as much faith as Ether? I think the answer lies in what he taught the people. He said that those who believe in God might hope for a better world which hope cometh of faith and maketh an…

Ether 11The brother of Shiblom may not have cared one way or the other about the prophets, he was trying to gain the favor of the people by joinin them in seeking to destroy the prophets. We are not told about what Shiblom did in response to the prophets but my assumption has always been…

Ether 10Morianton is very interesting in that Ether makes a distinction between his goodness to the people and his wickedness regarding himself. From the sound of it he was an accomplished man of the world. Others would look to him as a model of leadership but in the equation of the Lord he received the…

Ether 9I wonder how familiar Moroni was with Jaredite geography in order to say with certainty how it related to Nephite geography. Here, early in the Jaredite history the king moved and Moroni is able to say that he went past the place where the Nephites were destroyed. All but 30 people destroyed in the…

Ether 8I feel confident that anyone who wanted to enter into such a combination would have the details of such combinations revealed unto them. Knowing how they operate I already have a pretty good idea about the structure of their oaths (Moroni includes enough detail for that) but for those who would participate Satan surely…

Ether 7Perhaps the evidence of Shule being mighty in judgment is that he forgave Corihor and allowed him a position of some authority such that Corihor supported him when he was king. It was definitely evidence of being mighty in judgment that Shule supported the prophets when the people were reviling them.