When the son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth.

Lord, I believe, help thou mine unbelief.

May our testimonies. my unbelief.

May our testimonies be as deep and strong as that of Jacob.

When confronted by one who sought to destroy his face declared,

I could not be shaken. The Oh, Chapter 7 we started to see conflict within family. We started to see a loss of love and loyalty among family members.

Chapter 8 is where we see the rise of secret combinations. Here we reach

downtown Vanity Fair where people are being pulled in all kinds of directions

towards pride, towards lust, towards greed, ambition, to seek power and get gain, that's what these secret combinations are all about.

And that's what Chapter 8 is all about.

Now the idea of secret combinations is worth explaining a little bit from the start.

In our day, combinations we usually think of like

locker combinations or things like that a combination of numbers or a combination of

ingredients to make some new substance, new compound.

The dictionary in 1828, the first American dictionary, the one that would describe

what Joseph Smith and his time period would have understood of certain words.

When Joseph Smith translated the words secret combination, what would

have been in his mind? In that dictionary, the idea of numerical combinations is the fifth definition.

The idea of combining things to form some new compound is the idea behind the second and third and fourth.

What's the very first definition of combination in the 1828 dictionary?

It is an intimate union or association

of two or more persons or things

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