Today's Favorite Verse: Mosiah 21:29-30
"Yet Ammon and his brethren were filled with sorrow because so many of their brethren had been slain;
And also that king Noah and his priests had caused the people to commit so many sins and iniquities against God; and they also mourn for the death of Abinadi; and also for the departure of Alma and the people that went with him, who had formed a church of God through the strength and power of God, and faith on the words which had been spoken by Abinadi."
I could not help to think about the parallel of this story with the death of Abinadi being like a type and shadow of the death of Joseph Smith. And the fleeing of Alma being like Brigham Young taking the saints and fleeing to the Rocky Mountains. The Lord had told Joseph Smith in 1832 of the coming chastening of this nation for the blood of the saints, with a coming war that would divide the north against the south, beginning in South Carolina. This is found in Doctrine and Covenants section 87 and I have no doubt it speaks of the civil war that happened 29 years later.
By the time the civil war took place the nation needed to not only atone for the death of a prophet, and the saints, but the bondage they had placed a whole race of people under. I wonder if the early saints saw that parallel of this story of Abinadi and Alma, and king Limhi's people fighting the Lamanites as the civil war was ranging? I can see how the Lord preserved his saint. While our nation was in the midst of a civil war the saints were safe in the Rocky Mountains, untouched by it. Just like Alma and his people had fled persecution, sparing them of the coming battles. Though Alma and his people, and the early saints went through terrible things, I can see the hand of the Lord moving them to safety. I know if I honor and love the Lord he will always bring me to a better place.
Day 266 Tami Fitzgerald Harris
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