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🗓️ 7 August 2024
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0:00.0 | Many of you are probably wondering why so much war in the Book of Mormon. |
0:05.0 | You have to understand that Mormon, the chief of Bridger, was called to be the chief captain of the Nephite armies, |
0:11.0 | starting in his 16th year, so when he's 15, and his whole life is surrounded by warfare. |
0:19.0 | So he's seeing symbolisms and connections to our life all over the place |
0:23.9 | in battles and in strategies and in warfare. Here's the reality. He didn't just see his own day |
0:30.5 | with war. He saw our day. And he saw the various battles and the struggles that we face today, |
0:36.8 | not just against the powers of the devil and the powers of the devil, and the struggles that we face today, not just against the powers of the |
0:40.3 | of the devil and the powers of darkness, but against all kinds of issues in our world today. |
0:46.3 | So consequently, he's saying, I'm writing this for you down the road. |
0:52.3 | This will help you. Because whether you like it or not, we are at war today. |
1:01.0 | If you turn over to the Bible, the very last book of the Bible, the revelation of John, |
1:07.0 | if you go to chapter 12 and look at the heading, it tells you that John sees the |
1:11.9 | eminent apostasy of the church, and then towards the end of that heading chapter summary, |
1:16.3 | it says, John sees the war in heaven, and he sees the continuation of that war on the earth. |
1:24.5 | We are fighting an extension of a war you already fought in and won, technically. |
1:32.3 | We overcame with the power of the Savior and fighting with Michael the Archangel. We fought in that war and won the first time. |
1:42.3 | But now the battleground has shifted, now we're on the earth. |
1:46.7 | We're fighting against the same people as we fought against up there. |
1:50.5 | The only problem is, is we can't see them so clearly. |
1:54.7 | So I love the fact that the Book of Mormon helps us have a lens |
1:58.8 | wherewith we can see the enemy very clearly. Some of you who really, |
2:03.7 | really don't like war or violence, but totally fine, but you'll come to the war chapters and |
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