Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. We get to finish the Book of Ether today. And I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson.

And I'm Jack Welch, and we are so glad to be with you as we are coming close to the end of this study year with the Book of Mormon.

We have a conclusion here with the end of the Jaredite people. And Chapter 12 is one of my favorite chapters in the whole Book of Mormon.

We're so fortunate to be able to dive in to study.

The prophets have recorded to us on developing faith and hope and even charity in our lives.

Chapter 12 begins with a little biographical information about ether.

A good prophet.

The one who has given us this book, and he was a prophet, and he went out and prophesied,

and he knew that there were problems.

There must have been all kinds of difficulties going on, all this time that kings had been in captivity and the government's in disarray. And we get a sense of that. He himself was born in captivity. Yes. And he would have been the king if the lineage of Jared had been in power. So he doesn't have the ability to work within the political system. He stands outside of that, but he's a prophet. And he is blessed and he knows the value of

prophecy. And he uses the word, hoping that that can change the course of his civilization. And he cries. It says,

even from morning until the sun went down, exhorting the people to believe in God, and to

come back to their tradition and repent, and saying unto them that by faith, all things are

fulfilled. And wherefore, whoso believeth in God might with surety, hope for a better world, and even for a place on the right hand of God, which hope cometh of faith and makes an anchor to the souls of men. Isn't that a beautiful image? Especially in this text where he's just been writing about the Jaredite travels.

The anchorless travel that they went through.

Yeah.

And we do not need to be anchorless.

Faith will provide that.

But that faith will make them sure and steadfast.

Always abounding in good works and being led to glorify God.

Well, that was Ether's message, but the people rejected it.

And they wouldn't believe because they didn't see these kinds of things happening around them.

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