Tag: Helaman

​The people had been wicked for so long that no matter how sincere their repentance after the famine they had no strength of their own to stay on the path of righteousness. They needed strong and steady leadership. Nephi and Lehi did their best but there weren’t enough leaders to be able to keep all…

I think it is instructive to note how much more earnestness Nephi exhibits in along for the famine to be lifted as compared to the straightforward but hardly insistent request to instigate the famine. The Lord was certainly at least as willing to end the famine and save his children as he was to start…

I can understand why Nephi would prefer to see the purple due by famine rather than killing each other but did he have any evidence that the famine would be more effective at humbling them or that it would end the warfare?

The Nephites had been staying in anger for some time so that when they couldn’t take their anger or on Nephi they turned upon each other.

Nephi felt sorrow for the wickedness of the people but not hatred for them. With the trial he had just endured, that might have been the final key for the Lord to entrust him with the sealing power.

I’ll bet that Nephi didn’t know the identity of the murderer when he first prophesied the murder of the chief judge but when he was accused of being confederate with the murderer the spirit whispered peace to his soul and gave him to know the identity of the murderer and the manner in which he…

The five who were sent were doubtful when they left but couldn’t dispute what they saw. Those who sent them had figured that they would finally have the proof to discredit Nephi. They thought he had gone from telling uncomfortable truths (that they didn’t want to acknowledge) to making things up that were specific enough…

I’m very confident that Nephi didn’t know about the murder of the chief judge when he started showing. It was as he was speaking that the Spirit revealed to him the evidence that would prove to this audience that he was speaking the truth.

It is amazing how forgetful these Gadianton judges are that they would claim that the Nephites were to powerful to be driven from Zerahemla only a few years after they had been driven clear to the land northward and had been unable to regain the land of Zerahemla until the Lamanites repented and were converted…

The that a man will prosper according to his strength out his genius is true where the Lord is left out of the equation. For those who reject the Lord they are left to their own strength and so long they deal only with those who have similarly rejected Him, they will prosper or fail…