Today's Favorite Verse: Alma 60:16
"Yea, had it not been for the war which broke out among ourselves; yea, were it not for these king-men, who caused so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, at the time we were contending among ourselves, if we had united our strength as we hitherto have done; yea, had it not been for the desire of power and authority which those king-men had over us; had they been true to the cause of our freedom, and united with us, and gone forth against our enemies, instead of taking up their swords against us, which was the cause of so much bloodshed among ourselves; yea, if we had gone forth against them in the strength of the Lord, we should have dispersed our enemies, for it would have been done, according to the fulfilling of his word."
Moroni is writing to Pahoran, trying to figure out why support is not being given to the armies in the midst of battle. He touches on the damage the king-men caused before the Lamanites had attacked them. If they had not been fighting internally the enemy could not have overtaken them. Little does Moroni know that the king-men are at the root of the problem where support is not being sent to strengthen the armies. I sure hope and pray that we don't repeat this in our day. We are a weakened nation if we begin to have civil war from within. Ripe for our enemies to attack us.
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