Tag: Ether

The unsteadiness of men is shown in the instances such as Heth where after prolonged peace a son would ride up an murder his father for the throne despite the fact that he undoubtedly enjoyed great privilege without significant effort as the son of the king.

I can easily see why the sons of Amish would fight against him after he had starved one of his sins to death in prison for no apparent crime. They could not have felt secure even as family. In such a curious society people must have felt trapped so much that they were easily led…

The lesson for modern times is to always be on the lookout for secret combinations. We must not let down or guard even if we are unaware of any current secret combinations. I can’t name and at present but have no don’t that there are some operating.

The life of Shule is very interesting. Not only did he take up the sword to redeem the kingdom from his brother but he turned it over to his father, the rightful king. Later when he had become the rightful ruler he didn’t hold a grudge against the brother that had usurped the kingdom from…

I wonder why the sons of the brother of Jared all refused to be long and why all but one son of Jared also refused. Was it because they didn’t want the responsibility? Perhaps they believed what the brother of Jared had said about it being undesirable to have a king.

How did it feel for Moroni to write words that he knew would not be translated with the rest of the book? I can imagine that it was enlightening to read those sacred records from the brother of Jared. Did he ever feel anxious that his work on that would never be read?

It occurs to me that Moroni wrote more of the record in the gold plates than his father had. We only have a portion of what he wrote because most of what he wrote was the sealed portion containing the translation of the record that the brother of Jared left. That sealed portion was longer…

When the neither of Jared had enough faith to see the finger of the Lord his faith was completely trafficked into certain knowledge. Once he had made that transition the Lord does him all things. We to can make such transitions where what we hoped or had faith in because sure knowledge for us enabling…

Even though he was asking the Lord for a muscle in lighting the stones, the neither of hatred took the first step which was in his power in forming the stones to bring them to the Lord.

As I read this I wonder if I am like the brother of Jared here – stagnant, failing to progress, content enough with my progress so far that I fail to seek the will of the Lord for me and my family? If so I have been shaken by my circumstances, and yet I’m unsure…