Tag: Ether

Ether 6This journey through the dark and story sea with only the stones prepared by the Lord to provide light to them is very symbolic of our journey through mortality (or for parts of that journey).

Ether 5I love how Mormon and Moroni sprinkle their testimony throughout the portions of the record which they abridged – they did not try to be invisible but to add their prophetic insight right into the record.

Ether 4The sealed portion includes what Moroni wrote of the things which the brother of Jared saw (I don’t know if it includes any more than that). The day will come when we have those plates again in order that we might gain that record (this is unlikely to be any significant amount of time…

Ether 3I just realized that this experience of seeing the Lord came not very long after being chastened by the Lord for failing to call upon His name for four years. I think that is further proof that the chastening was not for failing to pray, but for failing to seek further direction and progress.…

Ether 2Human history defies the stretching assumptions of ancient archeology (meaning pre-historic explanations of the origin of man) – it defies human nature. Specifically, people tend to congregate, thus people would have been unlikely to roam the earth as we are supposed to suppose pre-historic man to have done. When people roam they almost always…

Ether 1Did Moroni expect that we would have a chance in our day to find and translate the record of Ether? Perhaps he had those two record hidden together, or perhaps he had that record in the sealed portion of the plates. Note that the one group whose language was not confounded was still scattered…

Ether 15I wanted to compare the number that Ether listed of 2 million men dead under Coriantumr. World War 2 saw at least 50 million killed, possibly exceeding 70 million, but that is a world war. Looking at conflicts in single nations in modern times I found casualties totaling in the hundreds of thousands. The…

Ether 14It sounds like the Jaredites were not confined to monogamy by this time. What a terrible place to live where the people were forced to choose between two very evil options.

Ether 13This New Jerusalem may not be named “New Jerusalem” but it will definitely be known as a holy city. In fact, it could be said that Salt Lake City is (or could be) a holy city. I don’t know that we are told that New Jerusalem is in Missouri, only that it is the…

Ether 12I have always wondered why Ether was allowed to come forth out of captivity (his fathers had been in captivity for two generations or more as the rightful heirs to the throne). This says he could not be restrained, but it’s possible that his actual release from prison was brough about because he had…