Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 30:10

Today's Favorite Verse: Isaiah 30:10

"Which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits:"

This is what people are saying when they want to change what the prophet says. This reminds in the Book of Mormon when Nephi sees in vision the interpretation of his father Lehi's vision of the tree of life. He sees the entire destruction of his people and comes out to find his brothers disputing about what the meaning was of their father's vision. Nephi then tells them and this is what they said.

"And now it came to pass that after I, Nephi, had made an end of speaking to my brethren, behold they said unto me: Thou hast declared unto us hard things, more than we are able to bear.

And it came to pass that I said unto them that I knew that I had spoken hard things against the wicked, according to the truth; and the righteous have I justified, and testified that they should be lifted up at the last day; wherefore, the guilty taketh the truth to be hard, for it cutteth them to the very center.

And now my brethren, if ye were righteous and were willing to hearken to the truth, and give heed unto it, that ye might walk uprightly before God, then ye would not murmur because of the truth, and say: Thou speakest hard things against us."

(1 Nephi 16:1-3)

Nephi's brothers only wanted to hear smooth things.

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