I am sick today so this blog post will be super short.
In Mormon Chapter 7, Mormon speaks to the Remnants of The House of Israel in the Latter Days (Now and at the time of Joseph Smith, when the Book of Mormon was brought forward, and the Gospel was restored).
He spoke to the future generations who's people were spared at the Hill Cumorah. Come unto Christ, repent, and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ or you can not be saved! Put down your weapons of war and stop shedding blood of man.
He tells the people that the New Testament of The Holy Bible will come forth and if the people believe it, they will also believe the Book of Mormon.
In Chapter 8 of Mormon, 400 years passed since the Savior visited America. Mormon was slaughtered and all of the Nephites. Moroni was alone and had no where to go so he buried the records in the ground to preserve them before he set out. Noone good was left around him. Only the wicked Lamanites and the Gadianton Robbers.
Mormon 8:23-25 says, "23 Search the prophecies of Isaiah. Behold, I cannot write them. Yea, behold I say unto you, that those saints who have gone before me, who have possessed this land, shall cry, yea, even from the dust will they cry unto the Lord; and as the Lord liveth he will remember the covenant which he hath made with them.
24 And he knoweth their prayers, that they were in behalf of their brethren. And he knoweth their faith, for in his name could they remove mountains; and in his name could they cause the earth to shake; and by the power of his word did they cause prisons to tumble to the earth; yea, even the fiery furnace could not harm them, neither wild beasts nor poisonous serpents, because of the power of his word.
25 And behold, their prayers were also in behalf of him that the Lord should suffer to bring these things forth.
Mormon 9 talked about how The Book of Mormon would come forward at a time of great wickedness in the land. That there will be a need for caring for others, the poor, the widow, the sick, the needy. And there will be churches that want power, money, flashy jewels, and be wicked and not humble. He reminded that the Peophets and the people of God were Martyred and died for this true Church of God.
Likening These Chapters Unto Me
I was thinking about what Moroni said when he said that the time would come when the Plates of Brass would be found and that those who read it will believe and know that the words were written and preserved of great and loyal, valiant, and true believers in God.
It makes me appreciate The Book of Mormon. It makes me love it more that the book was sealed by the blood of the faithful.
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