Tag: Helaman
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28 December 2007
Helaman 15I had always found it odd that Samuel would say that the Lord hated the Lamanites and that their deeds had been continual wickedness during a time when the Lamanites were more righteous than the Nephites. This time through I realized that the Lamanites had only started on the path to conversion and righteousness…
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27 December 2007
Helaman 14I had forgotten that Samuel gave the sign of the Saviors death right after giving the sign of his birth. On the other hand, I remember each time I read the sign of his death that it was not recorded how he prophesied that many would rise from their graves at the time of…
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26 December 2007
Helaman 13One difference between the destruction that will precede the second coming of Christ and any previous destruction is that the Lord has promised that His Priesthood will not be removed from the earth again. There will be some who are righteous and we may cling to that as Mormon must have clung to the…
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25 December 2007
Helaman 12This is a warning to those who have chosen to follow the Lord that it is easy to get off the path. It is also a warning to the leaders of the church that people can quickly choose other paths and thus they must be watched over even in their righteousness.
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24 December 2007
Helaman 11In the 80th year of the reign of the judges the armies went against the Gadiantons and were driven back. Afterwards the people remembered to turn to God, but only briefly before they returned to their wickedness. That is where we are now. We will return from Iraq unsatisfied with the results and will…
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22 December 2007
Helaman 9It is amazing that the first people on the scene of the murdered judge were the five who came from Nephi’s garden. Except the servants who had gone to spread word of the murder among the people. Those servants should have been able to identify the five men as not being the murderers. In…
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21 December 2007
Helaman 8I feel like we live in the days of Nephi with prophets telling us of the wickedness and corruption among us. Many cry against them, others defend them verbally without actively fighting the corruption they warn of. Those who tell us of the corruption are not just the public leaders of the LDS church,…
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20 December 2007
Helaman 7The people came to see Nephi because they had convinced themselves that they were still righteous, and holding true to the faith of their fathers (except those who had rejected faith as outmoded and arcane).
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19 December 2007
Helaman 6Have we become like the Nephites who are willing to support the combinations to get gain rather than strive to destroy them? I’m sure that many, or most of the Nephites did not condone murder explicitly, but they turned a blind eye to murder so long as they felt that they were receiving material…
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18 December 2007
Helaman 5Twice the prophet has been chosen as the chief judge, and twice he has stepped down after a few years to preach repentance. Nephi was weary because of the iniquity that was always coming before him for his judgment and he realized that the people could not be governed by law because they simply…