We were reading in Alma for family scripture study tonight and just thought it fit in well with today. I would just change the word IF to WHEN.
Alma 10:19 Yea, well did Mosiah say, that if the time should come that the voice of this people should choose iniquity, that is, if the time should come that this people should fall into transgression, they would be ripe for destruction.
20 And now I say unto you that well doth the Lord judge of your iniquities; well doth he cry unto this people, by the voice of his angels: Repent ye, repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.
21 Yea, well doth he cry, by the voice of his angels that: I will come down among my people, with equity and justice in my hands.
22 Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the prayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by flood, as were the people in the days of Noah, but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the sword.
23 But it is by the prayers of the righteous that ye are spared; now therefore, if ye will cast out the righteous from among you then will not the Lord stay his hand; but in his fierce anger he will come out against you; then ye shall be smitten by famine, and by pestilence, and by the sword; and the time is soon at hand except ye repent.
Amulek is speaking to us today.
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During the 1970s, there was a lot of really bad & extreme weather with people dying because of it. President Kimball said at that time that if it were not for the prayers of the righteous, there would be utter destruction then. The key to destruction in the above scriptures is casting out the righteous. So far that has not happened, but I do know of many people that have moved from a given area because of crime, gangs, drugs, etc. How long before the persecution of the church takes place, I don't know, but that is when those that are wicked have ripenED totally in iniquity.
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