Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 1:9

Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 1:9

"Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah."

I know this is referring to a remanent of the lineage of Judah being preserved and returning. It is amazing how such a persecuted people have been preserved over time. But, I also could not help but ponder on how the prayers of the righteous keep destruction from coming upon the land that we live. This made me ponder on how needful it is to have temples dot the earth where the prayers of the righteous can be raised up. This is what will preserve us until the Lord says is enough, the work is done.

"Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the prayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by flood, as were the people in the days of Noah, but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.

But it is by the prayers of the righteous that ye are spared; now therefore, if ye will cast out the righteous from among you then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce anger he will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the time is soon at hand except ye repent."

(Alma 10:22-23)

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