Ether 9
Ether 9
And so are the days of their lives... Boy, the story of Akish and his family is the worst Soap Opera of the Book of Mormon. It is so sad, brother against brother, father against son. After a while I did feel like I was reading the plot line of an awful soap opera! It reads unreal, at yet, so sad. What kind of man would starve his own son to death? It is the toll of unbridled pride, and a lesson to all of the real dangers of it.
On the other hand, you look at Emer, who was the epitome of righteousness. He brought the land out of hate and war and into righteousness. An amazing feat that deserves more that a handful of verses. He was such a good man that in verse 22 it says:
22 And after he had anointed Coriantum to reign in his stead he lived four years, and he saw peace in the land; yea, and he even saw the aSon of Righteousness, and did rejoice and glory in his day; and he died in peace.
He saw the Savior. Not usually something you see just mentioned almost is passing. I wonder what the Savior said to Him. I wonder what that visit was like.
And I wonder if Com new he would be the most popular man to ever come out of the Book of Mormon. With a small . in front of his name, he is spoken of by millions of people a day! (dot com. Get it? Yeah, lame joke, but it's early in the morning!)
What the Heth? After that lovely commercial break of peace, we're back to the awful soap opera where power-hungry families are killing one another.
This time, however, the Lord had tried to extend a life-line to the people via prophets. They rejected them, and even wanted to kill them.
So, the Lord went another route- famine and drought. And snakes poisonous snakes (awful!!)
All these things happened because the Lord was trying to compel them towards one word: Humility.
Humility and pride- polar opposites.
This chapter shows so clearly how the great price of each.
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And so are the days of their lives... Boy, the story of Akish and his family is the worst Soap Opera of the Book of Mormon. It is so sad, brother against brother, father against son. After a while I did feel like I was reading the plot line of an awful soap opera! It reads unreal, at yet, so sad. What kind of man would starve his own son to death? It is the toll of unbridled pride, and a lesson to all of the real dangers of it.
On the other hand, you look at Emer, who was the epitome of righteousness. He brought the land out of hate and war and into righteousness. An amazing feat that deserves more that a handful of verses. He was such a good man that in verse 22 it says:
22 And after he had anointed Coriantum to reign in his stead he lived four years, and he saw peace in the land; yea, and he even saw the aSon of Righteousness, and did rejoice and glory in his day; and he died in peace.
He saw the Savior. Not usually something you see just mentioned almost is passing. I wonder what the Savior said to Him. I wonder what that visit was like.
And I wonder if Com new he would be the most popular man to ever come out of the Book of Mormon. With a small . in front of his name, he is spoken of by millions of people a day! (dot com. Get it? Yeah, lame joke, but it's early in the morning!)
What the Heth? After that lovely commercial break of peace, we're back to the awful soap opera where power-hungry families are killing one another.
This time, however, the Lord had tried to extend a life-line to the people via prophets. They rejected them, and even wanted to kill them.
So, the Lord went another route- famine and drought. And snakes poisonous snakes (awful!!)
All these things happened because the Lord was trying to compel them towards one word: Humility.
Humility and pride- polar opposites.
This chapter shows so clearly how the great price of each.
.
Back and forth.... evil and good, good and evil. Gives me whiplash.
ReplyDeleteWhat I want to know is this... are the elephants actually elephants? Or are the elephants wooly mammoths? Of course I have no clue what a curelom or cumom is... but I have often wondered.
As far as the spiritual side of reading this chapter... keep your head in the game. The players change fast, the obstacles change even faster. If we are not paying attention to our own path, it is very easy to get swept up into the wrong path because of others.