You're not going to be here. You may get to the so-called war chapters in the Book of Mormon and wonder why Mormon

bothered to include so many of them. Yet he was a prophet who'd seen our day, and

if ever there were chapters as fresh and relevant as today's news headlines, here they are. They are filled with the best heroes like Moroni, who hoist

the title of liberty and the darkest villains like a Malachiah, who prosper by deceit and

betrayal, and underscoring it all is an existential question.

What is the price of freedom?

Hello, our dear friends, we are Scott and Maureen Proctor and welcome to Meridian magazine's

Come Follow Me Podcast where today we look at Alma chapters 43 to 52 with a lesson called

Stand Fast in the Faith of Christ.

When we prepare these podcasts, we study and think deeply about these passages.

And so Moroni and the title of Liberty has been living in my mind for some time.

I can feel him raising the standard from me right in my heart.

It's because the issues raised here are the ones that have concerned our ancient souls since the

pre-mortem world.

It is about the fight we were called to fight before we came to this earth.

We have a painting of Moroni in the title of Liberty by Walter

Raine right in the entrance of our home, so we see him every time we go in and out. And I feel it is a call

to stand as he stood against all those forces that would bring us into bondage.

Do you remember, Maureen, before we started Meridian magazine that we had a page up online announcing that it was coming.

It said, breaking news, the war in heaven has changed locations, it continues on earth.

We wanted to help people be armed against Satan's continual onslaught

and rise as the warriors they always were in the fight against evil and bondage. The war in heaven was the first skirmish in a much longer war we are still

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