'And in the days of Coriantor there also came many prophets, and prophesied of great and marvelous things, and cried repentance unto the people, and except they should repent the Lord God would execute judgment against them to their utter destruction;
And that the Lord God would send or bring forth another people to possess the land, by his power, after the manner by which he brought their fathers.
And they did reject all the words of the prophets, because of their secret society and wicked abominations."
I've noticed that the prophets say pretty much the same things for generations, repent or they would be destroyed. In a way I can understand how the people start to not listen. They heard this all before. Of course, there are times they are destroyed by the wicked killing the wicked. There was also the horrible famine in the land, along with poisonous snakes. But, this time the warning says something different. The prophesy is to their utter destruction, and that another people would be brought to possess the land. This should have woken the people up to their terrible condition. This all made me ponder on how we can never get lax in listening to the prophet. We cannot take for granted that we've heard what they've said before.
Day 1988
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