Today's Favorite Verse: Helaman 11:37

Today's Favorite Verse: Helaman 11:37
"And it came to pass in the eighty and fifth year they did wax stronger and stronger in their pride, and in their wickedness; and thus they were ripening again for destruction."

This chapter covers 14 years and during that time frame there was war, famine, repentance, esteeming Nephi as a prophet, prosperity, growth of the church, contention over points of doctrine, strife, revelations, dissenters, war, murder, plunder, Gadianton robbers, an army to search them out and destroy the robbers, kidnapping of women and children, some being stirred up in remembrance of the Lord, people waxing strong in iniquity that they don't mend their ways.

All this made me think of how it applies to our day? I pictured having all of this in our land. Then I realized this story isn't just of America. It's not just America preparing for the second coming of the Lord. The whole world is in commotion. All these things are taking place across the globe, many things all at once. The righteous will seek to be more righteous, as the wicked become more wicked.

"In relation to the kingdom of God, the devil always sets up his kingdom at the very same time in opposition to God."
(Joseph Smith, Jr, "History of the Church", 6:364)

"And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken."
(Luke 21:25-26)

"And in that day shall be heard of wars and rumors of wars, and the whole earth shall be in commotion, and men’s hearts shall fail them, and they shall say that Christ delayeth his coming until the end of the earth."
(Doctrine and Covenants 45:26)

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