Tag: Ether
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If He will drive us out
I just realized that the reason Jared asked his brother to inquire of the Lord relative to their possibly getting driven out of the land. He knew that the Lord had promised to scatter the people and he was willing to endure that once their language had been presented with their friends.
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Righteousness not an option
After Coriantumr rejected the chance to repent and have the people spared that Ether delivered to him the people no longer had a chance to choose righteousness (they had already rejected it)—even if any had wanted it they would not be allowed by their fellow Jaredites to live in peace. As the armies marched from…
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Hearing the prophets
I metrics how there were successive waves of prophets coming among the Jaredites before they were finally destroyed. The people rejected them repeatedly. It made me wonder about prophets in our day. We can recognize when the prophet speaks out even when she member of the First Presidency or Quorum of the Twelve speak that…
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Freedom of religion
In never really thought before of how the widespread insistence that religion should be kept out of the public square (“feel free to practice your religion but don’t do anything publicly that another person might complain about”) is the opposite of the protection for prophets and missionaries that we observe among Lamoni and his father…
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Setting up
I wonder what the first years of life in the promised land were like for the Jaredites. Unlike the Nephites they had no enemies in the really years because they were all unified until look after Jared and his brother had died. Certainly there was plenty of work to do to get established in the…
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Preparation
It is clear from the beginning of this record that hated and his brother were prepared to receive the blessings of the Lord. Jared didn’t just invent the idea of having their language preserved or of being driven out of the land or of receiving a land of promise. Clearly he had been taught about…
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Relatively righteous
It seems to me that the Lord offered repentance to Coriantumr because relative to others of the Jaredites in his day he was righteous. As the story is written it is not entirely clear but I believe Coriantumr did not participate in secret combinations. On the other hand, he was not a righteous king, just…
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Advancing technology
It is easy for us to compare it days to the days of wickedness that we read about in scripture but today I identified with the days of righteousness and prosperity. Not that our time is less wicked than it was before but I recognized the similarities of a people who had great material wealth…
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Who gets spared?
I notice the story of Jared rebelling against his father and when his brothers conquered him to redeem the kingdom for their father Jared begged for his life and they spared him. As I read that I thought of how often the very person who caused the trouble is spared while others who followed suffer…
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Surely this thing leadeth into captivity
I wonder if the brother of Jared was so sure about kind leading to captivity because of what he had seen in vision from the Lord. Did he know that his people would begin to be ruled by kings and it would lead to their destruction like neigh knew that his people would turn to…