Tag: Mosiah

The people in Zealand had a mighty change in their hearts and anyone truly converted to the Lord will have had that experience at least once in their lives. Benjamin goes on to caution them against having that mighty change and the name of Christ blotted out of their hearts through transgression.

When King Benjamin saw the people “fallen to the earth, for the fear of the Lord has come upon them,” it was not “fear” as in cowering and afraid, it was fear as in respect for their relative position in reference to Him—reverence and awe for His great mercy in providing a path to exaltation…

It hit me in a new way tonight that this clear declaration of the imminent coming of Christ would have been had in many nations in the time period of king Benjamin—we just don’t have the records of those nations yet. Perhaps it was a not so distant prophecy like this that prepared the wise…

I don’t think we often consider how unusual it was that Lehi had the foundation to be able to establish a separate people who could keep the commandments. Having the sacred records on the brass plates would have been useless without the education to read them. Thus a less educated man, no matter how righteous…

Modish changed the minds if his people so that they no longer desired a king. He did this not by declaring that it would be so but by exposing why it was desirable—that is how to make change in a free society. If course that was only possible because the people were willing to listen…

I wonder if modish covered the records on Alma before Alma was chosen as chief judge or after. It is recorded before the record of their reorganizing their political system but the timing is such that it might have been after the people had chosen Alma to lead the new form of government.

I wonder how much of the 3 days were spent in torment got Alma and how many in repentance. Some of the descriptions seem to suggest that he spoke soon after he cried out for redemption but when he says that he had repented it makes me wonder if he spent a significant portion of…

Mosiah have Alma charge it judging those within the church while Mosiah would only judge those outside the church. I thought for a minute that those in the church would therefore have double chances to repent because the only consequence Alma would deliver would be to remove them from the church if they did not…

The people of Limhi, the people of Alma, the neighbors who lived in Zerahemla and the people of Mulek who founded Zerahemla became united together because they had a common adversary in the Lamanites but not importantly because they bought in together to the history and tribulations of each of the other groups. They may…