2 Nephi 18
I read this chapter this morning from my iPad hoping to remember some of the things I have written in my scriptures. I did okay, but it still seems to be written in code. Those sentences that I do understand seem to drop off without completion.
I understand that v3 where it says “Call his name Maher-shalai-hash-baz” is another type of Jesus Christ. I don't understand why. I just wrote it from “Understanding Isaiah”.
The one thought that I might be able to really understand is v9 where it says “Associate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces. . .” Associate with what? The adversary. Counsel together and it won't be good either. Strategies are useless, is what I wrote in the margins. We must not walk in the ways of people but in the ways of the Lord, receiving counsel from him; teaming with him.
Apologies. I know the Lord is my light and it is his laws I will keep. That will have to suffice until I'm more spiritually mature enough to understand Isaiah who says he writes plainly. Really?
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