Moroni

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So if you remember last episode, we read Moroni chapter 8. which is basically a letter from Mormon to his son Moroni.

So Moroni is just writing down a letter that his dad sent him while he was still alive.

And he talks very strongly against infant baptism.

And so if you want to understand accountability, if you want to understand the mercy of God and how it applies in certain cases, that is definitely the chapter to go back and study because he has some strong words to say about that.

And I love it when prophets are bold.

So it was a blast to read.

But yeah, without any more ado, let's read the second letter that Moroni added to his record from his father as we read Moroni chapter 9.

But are you saying you see it more now?

Well, in Ether, Moroni tells us to fight against them and to stop them.

He says that if we, like in the Book of Mormon, the Lamanites, there was a period of time where they got rid of all the secret combinations and the Nephites didn't.

And it had a really negative effect on Nephite society because they allowed the secret combinations to infiltrate their government.

And so in this section of ether, Moroni warns us as readers of the Book of Mormon not to let that happen to our government and not to let it happen where we live today.

And so what can we do?

I mean, am I just naive to say that I kind of have a lot of faith and hope in our constitution and in the separation of powers? And even though it'll never be perfect, I kind of, is it naive to say? No,

He later said that God and Jesus appeared to him there.

A few years later, he said an angel named Moroni led him to gold plates buried nearby.

Smith dictated a translation of what was inscribed on those plates to a few scribes, then handed them back to the angel.

The result was the Book of Mormon, published in 1830.

The media busily satisfies an apparently insatiable appetite of audiences to witness murder, violence, nudity, sex, and profanity.

Is not this the day of which Moroni spoke when he recorded, Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not.

But behold, Jesus Christ has shown you unto me, and I know your doing.

And then he prophesied of conditions of the world as they are today.

Admittedly, we have ample reason to be deeply concerned because we see no immediate answers to the seemingly unsolvable problems confronting the human family.

But regardless of this dark picture, which will ultimately get worse, we must never allow ourselves to give up hope.

Moroni, having seen our day, counseled, Wherefore, there must be faith, and if there must be faith, there must also be hope.

To all who have harbored feelings of despair and an absence of hope, I offer the words of the Lord through the Prophet Joseph Smith, Fear not, little flock, do good.

The Israelites have abandoned their covenant memory of everything God did to save them.

If you look at Moroni chapter 10, verse three, Moroni says, I exhort you and receive these things to ask God if these things, these stories, these testimonies of God's everlasting love are true.

And what do these people do? They actually are just decades or centuries close to these events and they've ignored it.

They're like, who is the Lord? Remember King Noah said this, when Abinadi comes and tells him all these bad things are gonna happen, King Noah says, who's the Lord that he should judge me? That's what these people are saying.