Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 1:7

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 1:7
"The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him."

That is a very comforting verse if you trust in the Lord. I have felt Him as my strong hold when in the midst of trouble. You do not need to see Him to know he is there, and mindful of all that you are going through.

Day 4044

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 3:4

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 3:4

"Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts."

It's one thing if you corrupt yourself and turn to evil. It's another when you sell it, preach it, and lead others astray. That is what it means by "selleth nations through her whoredoms". It is something we see in our day. Those that call evil good and good evil, that use power and influence to encourage others to accept sin and embrace it. I think the most evil among them are those that confuse and lead innocent children astray, and destroy the family.

Day 3062

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 2:3-4

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 2:3-4

"The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.

The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like the lightnings."

The day of his preparation. Nahum is prophesying of signs to recognize when that final preparation period is to begin, before the Savior's second coming. I know the description of chariots as flaming torches that rage in the streets, and justle against each other, is thought of as cars. I think it can go a little further back in history than that, to the first stream locomotive. I find the time frames interesting.

Nahum prophecy was written between 660-606 BC. Lehi and his family left Jerusalem in 600 BC so Nahum could have been a contemporary. The first steam locomotive was built in 1804. Joseph Smith, Jr. was born in 1805. It wasn't until 1830 that the first public railway was open in the United States. It was in 1830 that the church was first organized, and the Book of Mormon was published about Lehi's family. The steam locomotive with its smokestack looks very much like a flaming torch. To stand near while one passes the ground would terribly shake. Anyone riding a train would feel how the cars jostle against each other. The time frame for the final preparation began almost 200 years ago. We are at the end of our preparation. As President Nelson has said "We are in the last half of the ninth inning.”

Day 3061

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 1:6-7

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 1:6-7

"Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his fury is poured out like fire, and the rocks are thrown down by him.

The LORD is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him."

Who can stand? Those that put their trust in the Lord. He knows you and will watch over you when all his indignation and anger is poured out. That is the great and dreadful day of the Lord. The time to practice and prepare for it is now. It's in those personal moments of trouble that we learn who is our strength and with us. This is the greatest part of the doctrine of Christ, to endure to the end. It is where we come to know the Savior. If our trials are not bringing us closer to Him, then we are hanging on our own cross suffering. He already did that for us. He lives, he loves us, he will be there to strengthen us, as we turn to him.

"And we know that all men must repent and believe on the name of Jesus Christ, and worship the Father in his name, and endure in faith on his name to the end, or they cannot be saved in the kingdom of God."

(Doctrine and Covenants 20:29)

"And whoso taketh upon him my name, and endureth to the end, the same shall be saved at the last day."

(3 Nephi 27:6)

"And now, behold, whosoever is of my church, and endureth of my church to the end, him will I establish upon my rock, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against them."

(Doctrine and Covenants 10:69)

"Be patient in afflictions, for thou shalt have many; but endure them, for, lo, I am with thee, even unto the end of thy days."

(Doctrine and Covenants 24:8)

Day 3060

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 3:7

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 3:7
"And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?"

This chapter is speaking of the downfall of Nineveh. It also reminded me of what I am seeing today. The sins of people are being shouted from the housetops. How quickly we see their fall. Sins and past errors displayed for others to judge and offer group condemnation on. Friends once by their sides quickly vanish, not wanting to be associated with them. I guess what sickens me is the society has no forgiveness. You make a mistake, there is no redemption, you're counted as nothing. That is not what the Savior teaches. He atoned for our sins. He is the friend that never leaves you, if you come unto Him. 

Day 1478

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 2:3-4

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 2:3-4
"The shield of his mighty men is made red, the valiant men are in scarlet: the chariots shall be with the flaming torches in the day of his preparation, and the fir trees shall be terribly shaken.
That chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall justle one against another in the broad ways: they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lighnings."

These verses are describing when the preparation for the second coming of the Lord will be. It's not hard to visualize Nahum attempting to describe a modern day automobile in the last verse. I can picture him standing at a street corning watching cars line up at a traffic light. I can also see him standing on a bridge at night overlooking a modern day highway. But this can even go a little further back in time in the industrial age. Prior to the automobile there were trains, that could also run at incredible speeds.

Nahum prophecy was written between 660-606 BC. The first steam locomotive was built in 1804. It wasn't until 1830 that the first public railway was open in the United States. Those dates are rather interesting to look at. Lehi and his family left Jerusalem in 600 BC so Nahum could have been a contemporary. Joseph Smith was born 1805 and the restoration of the gospel and the coming forth of the Book of Mormon happened in 1830. It was this modern age and coming forward that Nahum prophesied of. This is the time when the gospel was restored in preparation of the Lord's second coming. Even 100 years prior to the restoration of the gospel the imagery in Nahum prophesy would not be understood.

Day 1477

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 1:7

Today's Favorite Verse: Nahum 1:7
"The Lord is good, a strong hold in the day of trouble; and he knoweth them that trust in him."

This chapter is speaking of the second coming, but this verse is true every day. For no matter the trouble I can always turn to the Lord and find comfort and peace. Though the earth may melt and burn away at His coming it worries me not. For he will gather his sheep and hold them.

Day 1476