Friday, September 6, 2013

A Lesson, Short, But Not Sweet ~ God Will Not Be Mocked


Nehor
But as to the people that were in the land of Ammonihah, they yet remained a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people; and they repented not of their sins, ascribing all the power of Alma and Amulek to the devil; for they were of the profession of Nehor, and did not believe in the repentance of their sins. (Alma 15: 15)
That was in the 10th year of the reign of the judges among the people of Nephi.

Just when they thought they were unapproachable, Alma's prediction for an unrepentant people came true from an unexpected source.  Here is what Alma wrote:

And it came to pass in the eleventh year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi, on the fifth day of the second month, there having been much peace in the land of Zarahemla, there having been no wars nor contentions for a certain number of years, even until the fifth day of the second month in the eleventh year, there was a cry of war heard throughout the land.  For behold, the armies of the Lamanites had come in upon the wilderness side, into the borders of the land, even into the city of Ammonihah, and began to slay the people and destroy the city.  And now it came to pass, before the Nephites could raise a sufficient army to drive them out of the land, they had destroyed the people who were in the city of Ammonihah . . . (Alma 16: 1-3)
 
Be careful.  God will not be mocked.
 
Text from the Book of Mormon
 
Pictures
Slaughter at Ammonihah from www.lds.org
 
 

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