Do I really want to start writing here again? Maybe so. My blog still feels like the only safe place to voice what’s on my mind. These are my notes from today’s study of 3 Nephi — and honestly, it’s a sobering one.
This chapter feels eerily familiar, as though it’s speaking directly to our day — the year 2025! Are we ready for the next chapters? The text mentions “the 30th year since Christ’s birth,” and many prophets have said these timelines mirror our own. [Gulp.] Could we really be that close to the Second Coming?
Look around. The truly wicked often walk free after committing terrible crimes. Illegal immigrants are given rights, finances, and privileges that many citizens struggle to obtain. This one especially troubles me — so many who have come to the U.S. legally have waited years, even decades, for the same opportunities. It just feels wrong. So how do we respond to it all?
Here’s the question that hit me: If we fight against the growing chaos and try to bring peace, are we slowing the Lord’s timetable? If the world became peaceful again, would that delay the Savior’s return?
God’s Rules to Peace
Here’s what stood out to me in this chapter — a divine checklist of how to stay grounded when everything else falls apart:
- Humble
- Firm
- Penitent
- Steadfast
- Immovable
- Diligently willing to keep the commandments of the Lord
3 Nephi 6:14
And thus there became a great inequality in all the land, insomuch that the church began to be broken up; yea, insomuch that in the thirtieth year the church was broken up in all the land save it were among a few of the Lamanites who were converted unto the true faith; and they would not depart from it, for they were firm, and steadfast, and immovable, willing with all diligence to keep the commandments of the Lord.
Satan’s Tools
Every tool listed here is visible in today’s world:
- Pride
- Power
- Authority
- Riches
- Vain things of the world
- Willfully rebelling against God
And just like in Nephi’s day:
- The people combined against the Lord, entering into a covenant to destroy those who sought justice.
- They defied the law and the rights of their country.
- They plotted to destroy the governor and install a king over the land.
- Their goal was to take away liberty and bring the people under control.
Food for thought. I’ll be chewing on this one today.
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