Tag: Helaman

Helaman 15The Lamanites had been converted through the ministry of Nephites – Samuel is just tying to return the favor 🙂

Helaman 14I think the five years more sign until the coming of Christ may have been, to some small degree, the Lord’s response to those critics who felt (and possibly even shouted) that prophesying something 400 years in the future was conveniently unprovable within their lifetime. The period of light at his birth and the…

Helaman 13I wonder what the people thought of the four-hundred year prophecy – they might have ignored it because of how distant it was or discounted it as a prophecy of convenience that Samuel would never have to answer for. “I came to bring you the good news of repentance through Christ, instead I must…

Helaman 12This chapter is essentially scripture study notes from Mormon. His feelings from what he had been reading and compiling were so strong that he felt it necessary to share his distress at the weakness of the people at this point in the record. Perhaps it is here that the Nephites began to have the…

Helaman 10 – 11Nephi was pondering the things the Lord had shown him. I wonder if he was pondering on the murder of the chief judge and the confession of his brother, or if there were other things the Lord had shown him which he was pondering on which are not recorded clearly here. I…

Helalman 9This whole experience for Nephi is very interesting to me because it immediately precedes the Lord giving him the sealing power. He was obviously very spiritually in tune before all of this, but after the experience he was ready to receive the unbounded confidence of the lord because of his desire to do whatever…

Helaman 8The way Nephi spoke against the corruption of the Nephite law is the way that we need people to speak against the corruption that has become part of our law today as opposed to the purity of the Constitution upon which the country was founded. Nephi was given to prophesy concerning the murder of…

Helaman 7It sounds like the people in the north were more wicked than the people in Zerahemla, or perhaps it was simply the fact that the Nephites at this time were more wicked than the Lamanites. Some people gathered for a spectacle and other gathered because they were excited about the possibility of someone who…

Helaman 6I wonder what the political relationship with the Lamanites was like after they voluntarily returned the Nephite lands to the Nephites. Religiously there was interaction between the Nephite and Lamanite churches, so it sounds like politically there was interaction between the nations. (Here two verses later it says exactly that.) Note that in this…

Helaman 5Nephie felt that he could not be a judge because the laws had become corrupt so that he would have to choose between what was legal and what was right. I’ll bet that he did not try picking a righteous successor because he knew that no righteous man could be a judge, uphold the…