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CHAPTER 46
Amalichiah conspires to be king— |
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'They were Determined to Murder'Frequently missed is one of the major underlying threats to the freedom and liberty loving Christians of this sub-group lead by Amalickiah. It was their purpose to murder and destory the Church of Christ. Though their movement seems to some to be but to install a king, a deep motivation force was to slay the Christian in consequence o installing a King. This was not only the process of treason, but the design plan of murder and destruction against the Church of God. Sometimes, as we have been as Americans and Christian, we become too complacent concerning the threats against us. And it not until a '9/11' or a Pearl Harbor that our eyes are opened to the matter. Luckily for the Nephites, they had a chief commander of the military to take matters into his own hands beyond ability of the church and the powers of the judges. He could act immediately and did so, recognizing the unterlying intend and threat to the free nation of Zarahemla and its freedom of religion, which the Christians enjoyed beyond any power of government against them as long as they obeyed the law of the land. |
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1 AND it came to pass that as many as would not
hearkena to the
awords of Helaman and his brethren were gathered
together against their brethrena.
2 And now behold, they were exceedingly wroth, insomuch that they were determined to slay thema. 3 Now the leader of those who were wroth against their brethren was a large and a strong man; and his name was aAmalickiah.
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1a as many as would not hearken ... were
gathered together against their brethren As is the case in all
ages past, they who would not hearken to the gospel of Jesus Christ which is
based in the agency of man, do seek for power and authority to be exercised
over their brethren, thus forceably controlling the agency of men. And rather
than leaving the Church alone, they do gather against it and against God's
righteousness and the liberties and freedoms of man. Such is the diobolical
'Democratic Aliance' of the 'Globalist Movement!' Back by Nazi trained George
Soros and such Democrat Party leaders as Nancy Pelosi and others, they plan
'THEIR' agenda against the Freedoms of the United States of America. They have
determined that 'THEY' will determan the course of man over and above the God
given Liberties and Angency of man. Rather than serving the 'people' they will
set down the rules they want followed and forceablly enforce 'THEIR WILL' upon
the people. They set the agenda for man to be a part of 'THEIR' World Society
Globalist agenda and force all people and nations to comply to 'THEIR' irreligious
demands on how that 'Societal Empire' will be run. Under the false concept of the
name 'Democratic Aliance' their godless 'Aliance' is anything but the democratic
concept of 'We the People.' They do not seek to find the true 'will of the
people!' Rather they seek for their own agenda of forced behaviors that are
against the will of the people and they by their '1984' type biased 'media'
propoganda set out to form people to believe as they would have them believe and
act as they would have them act in a Lucifer led movement which is entirely
against the 'free agency' liberities of the freedoms granted to man in the
Constitution of the United States of America. Under the disquise of 'civil rights'
they are bending and reshaping the Constitutional rights into what they 'deem'
according to them 'should be' the practiced norm such as LGBT ruling over and
above the freedoms of religion guaranteed by the Constitution. And it does not
stop their as many liberties and freedoms gauranteed are being taken away under
the false name and misleading false ideals of 'civil liberty!'
2a they were exceedinly wroth, insomuch that they were determined to slay them Now the people who rejected the gospel of Christ not only gathered themselves to gether, but their intent was to 'slay' or 'murder' the Christian believers who supported the judges and the cause of freedom and liberty. Thus if they had succeeded in installing their King, Amalickiah, they would have carried out their intent, persecuting the saints of Christ unto death. When one considers Moroni's punishment of those who would not repent of their intent against the poeple of Christ and would not stand for freedom and liberty, consider that they were the 'hardliners' who had my their intended rise to power were going to slay, murder and kill the prophets and saints of Christ. |
1a
Alma 45:20 3a Alma 49:25
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4 And Amalickiah was desirous to be a aking; and
those people who were wroth were also desirous that he should be their king;
and they were the greater part of them the lower bjudges of
the land, and they were seeking for power.
5 And they had been led by the aflatteries of Amalickiah, that if they would support him and establish him to be their king that he would make them rulers over the people. 6 Thus they were led away by Amalickiah to dissensions, notwithstanding the preaching of Helaman and his brethren, yea, notwithstanding their exceedingly great care over the church, for they were ahigh priests over the church.
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4a
Alma 2:2 b Mosiah 29:11-44 5a Prov. 29:5 6a Alma 46:38
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7 And there were many in the church who believed in the
aflattering words of Amalickiah, therefore they
bdissented even from the church; and thus were the affairs
of the people of Nephi exceedingly precarious and dangerous, notwithstanding
their great cvictory which they had had over the Lamanites,
and their great rejoicings which they had had because of their
ddeliverance by the hand of the Lord.
8 Thus we see how aquick the children of men do bforget the Lord their God, yea, how quick to do ciniquity, and to be led away by the evil one. 9 Yea, and we also see the great awickedness one very wicked man can cause to take place among the children of mena. 10 Yea, we see that Amalickiah, because he was a man of cunning device and a man of many flattering words, that he led away the hearts of many people to do wickedly; yea, and to seek to adestroy the church of God, and to destroy the foundation of bliberty which God had granted unto them, or which blessing God had sent upon the face of the land for the crighteous' sake.
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9a we also see the great wickedness one very wicked man can cause to take place among the children of men Now this may be the application unto such as is Amalickiah but assuredly it is as much or more also applicable unto him who is the cause of it all in all times. For it is Satan who does inspire such as is the likes of Amalickiah, for such was also the case of Zerahemnah just prior to Amalickiah. And so it is in all cases in times of old even as it is in times to day in such cases as Hilter and Sadam Husein and all such men who would raise themselves to power over men to subject them unto bondage. For thus it is that Satan does so inspire the heart of man, even the heart of even one such wicked man over whom he does exercise all power to made them like unto himself in his intents and purposes, which intents and purposes are but echoes of those of Satan in the preexistance and that great war in heaven. |
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TG
Flattery b Alma 1:24 c Alma 44:20 d Josh. 21:44; 1 Kings 5:3; Mosiah 9:17; TG Deliverance 8a Ex. 32:8; Judg. 2:17; Hel. 4:26; Hel. 6:32; Hel. 12:2, 4-5 b Deut. 6:12 c Mosiah 13:27 9a 2 Kings 10:29; Mosiah 29:17-18 10a TG Tyranny b 2 Ne. 1:7; Mosiah 29:32; TG Liberty c Alma 45:15-16; Alma 62:40
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11 And now it came to pass that when Moroni, who was the
achief commander of the armies of the Nephites, had heard
of these dissensions, he was angry with Amalickiah.
 13 And he fastened on his head-plate, and his abreastplate, and his shields, and girded on his armor about his loins; and he took the pole, which had on the end thereof his rent coat, (and he called it the btitle of liberty) and he cbowed himself to the earth, and he prayed mightily unto his God for the blessings of liberty to rest upon his brethren, so long as there should a band of dChristians remain to possess the land—
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11a
Alma 4:16 12a 2 Sam. 10:12; Neh. 4:14 (10-14); Alma 44:5; Alma 48:10, 24 13a Alma 44:9; Alma 49:6, 24 b Alma 51:20; TG Citizenship c TG Reverence d Alma 48:10
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14 For thus were all the true believers of Christ, who belonged
to the church of God, called by those who did not belong to the
church.
15 And those who did belong to the church were afaithful; yea, all those who were true believers in Christ btook upon them, gladly, the name of Christ, or cChristians as they were called, because of their belief in Christ who should come. 16 And therefore, at this time, Moroni prayed that the cause of the Christians, and the afreedom of the land might be favored.
What is in truth being conveyed by using the descriptive word of Christian in the Book of Mormon is well explained in the Book of Mormon itself. Certainly the people of the Book of Mormon did not speak mordern English. And the word 'Christian' is but an English transliteration of whatever ancient language the books of the New Testament were written in. Just so, whatever word the Nephite language used, let us represent it by 'XYZABC', what that word meant was that the Nephites had taken upon themselves the name of the Lord, the Messiah, which the English tranliterated word Christ means. Literally then, the Nephite word we have represented as being 'XYZABC', whatever it was, did have the meaning of being followers of or in concept 'children of' the Messiah. They believed in and followed after the doctrine and the gospel of the Messiah to whatever extent it had been revealed to them. Certainly even before Christ in the ancient world there were those who believed in and followed after the concepts, precepts and teachings of the 'coming Messiah'. In our modern English the best word we have to describe those who believe in and follow after the concepts and teachings of the Messiah is the word Christians. That the Book of Mormon uses the word Christ and Christian is but the same practice which the Kings James Bible had done by using such modern and transliterated English words of such 'meaning' in place of whatever such ancient word in whatever such ancient language the King James Bible was translated from. Has not Joseph Smith's translation of the Book of Mormon the same right and privilege to so use the English language of his day to translate an ancient record into for the understanding of the reader who reads it? What other language and alphabet would he use? Thus you see, all translations are legitimately anachronistic in nature and justifiably so, else why translate it in the first place. Just force the reader to read some unknown language of symbols and alphabets that they do not understand otherwise. Just how stupid these are who play such word games to criticize such modern translations from ancient languages to cry the absured warning of 'wolf' when all such modern translations are but of necessity a creative achronism?!? And just how niave and ignorant do they consider those whose understanding they attempt to pull the wool over by such rhetoric of stupidity? |
15a
TG
Faithful;
TG
Loyalty b TG Jesus Christ, Taking the Name of c Acts 11:26 16a Alma 51:13
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17 And it came to pass that when he had poured out his soul to God,
he named all the land which was asouth of the land
bDesolation, yea, and in fine, all the land, both on the
cnorth and on the south—A chosen land, and the land
of dliberty.
18 And he said: Surely God shall not asuffer that we, who are despised because we take upon us the name of Christ, shall be trodden down and destroyed, until we bring it upon us by our own btransgressions.
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3 Ne. 3:24;
Morm. 3:5 b Alma 22:30; Alma 50:34 c Alma 22:31; Alma 63:4 d 2 Ne. 1:7; Mosiah 29:32 18a TG Protection, Divine b TG Transgression
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19 And when Moroni had said these words, he went forth among the
people, waving the arent part of his garment in the air,
that all might see the writing which he had written upon the rent part, and
crying with a loud voice, saying:
20 Behold, whosoever will maintain this title upon the land, let them come forth in the strength of the Lord, and aenter into a covenant that they will bmaintain their rights, and their religion, that the Lord God may bless them. 21 And it came to pass that when Moroni had proclaimed these words, behold, the people came running atogether with their armor girded about their loins, brending their garments in token, or as a ccovenant, that they would not forsake the Lord their God; or, in other words, if they should transgress the commandments of God, or fall into transgression, and be dashamed to take upon them the name of Christ, the Lord should rend them even as they had rent their garments.
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19a
TG
Ensign 20a Alma 48:13 b TG Citizenship 21a 2 Sam. 20:14 (11-14) b TG Rend, Rent c TG Commitment d Jer. 17:13; Rom. 1:16; 2 Tim. 1:8; 1 Ne. 8:25; Morm. 8:38
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22 Now this was the covenant which they made, and they
acast their garments at the feet of Moroni, saying: We
bcovenant with our God, that we shall be destroyed, even as
our brethren in the land northward, if we shall fall into transgression; yea, he may
cast us at the feet of our enemies, even as we have cast our
garments at thy feet to be trodden under foot, if we shall fall
into transgression.
23 Moroni said unto them: Behold, we are a aremnant of the seed of Jacob; yea, we are a remnant of the seed of bJosepha, whose ccoat was rent by his brethren into many pieces; yea, and now behold, let us remember to keep the commandments of God, or our garments shall be rent by our brethren, and we be cast into prison, or be sold, or be slain. 24 Yea, let us preserve our liberty as a aremnant of Joseph; yea, let us remember the words of Jacob, before his death, for behold, he saw that a bpart of the cremnant of the coat of Joseph was dpreserved and had not decayed. And he said—Even as this remnant of garment of my son hath been preserved, so shall a eremnant of the seed of my son be preserved by the hand of God, and be taken unto himself, while the remainder of the seed of Joseph shall perish, even as the remnant of his garment.
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23a we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph This collective 'we' included all of the Nephites, even the people of Zarahemla of the descendants of Mulek, namely the Mulekites, who had been counted to be more numerous that were the descendants of Nephi, the Nephites, themselves just one generation previous in the last days of King Mosiah II (see Mosiah 25:2). Then how is it that Moroni can state to the people of Zarahemla, the Mulekites, which Zarahemla was a descendant of Mulek the son of King Zedekiah the Jewish king, that they too are a part of the remnant of the seed of Joseph? To this end one must consider that it was well known among the children of Israel and the Nephites that King David and the royal house of Israel, was indeed rightfully and legally of the seed of Joseph who was sold into Egypt. And this according to the Law of God which stipulated that a kinsman was to raise up seed to the dead that they perish not out of the land. For Obed was the firstborn son of Ruth which Boaz so stated himself that he had raised up unto the house of the dead Mahlon and Elimelech who were Ephrathites meaning Ephraimites or the tribe of Ephraim. Indeed they were even the very rightful heirs of the covenant through Jospeh and Ephriam and thence to Nun and Joshua until it came to Elimelech and Mahlon, and by the Law of God upon the heads of Obed, Jesse and David. They too who were Ephrathites and legally and rightfully of the seed of Joseph. Thus when Moroni states that 'we are a remnant of the seed of Joseph, he is not leaving the Mulekites out, but including them as legal and rightful heirs to be included as the promised seed of the covenant, the promised seed of Joseph. (See Messiah ben David ~ Messiah ben Joseph) |
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Acts 7:58;
Acts 22:20 b TG Commitment 23a TG Israel, Remnant of b TG Israel, Joseph People of c Gen. 37:3, 31-36 24a 2 Ne. 10:1; Jacob 5:45 (43-45) b Gen. 44:28 c 3 Ne. 5:23-24; 3 Ne. 10:17 d 2 Ne. 3:5-24; 2 Ne. 25:21; Ether 13:7 e Ether 13:6
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25 Now behold, this giveth my soul sorrow; nevertheless, my soul
hath joy in my son, because of that part of his seed which shall
be taken unto God.
26 Now behold, this was the language of Jacob. 27 And now who knoweth but what the remnant of the seed of Joseph, which shall perish as his garment, are those who have dissented from us? Yea, and even it shall be ourselves if we do not stand fast in the faith of Christ.
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28 And now it came to pass that when Moroni had said these words
he went forth, and also sent forth in all the parts of the land
where there were dissensions, and gathered together all the
people who were desirous to maintain their liberty, to stand
against Amalickiah and those who had dissented, who were called
Amalickiahites.
29 And it came to pass that when Amalickiah saw that the people of Moroni were more numerous than the Amalickiahites—and he also saw that his people were adoubtful concerning the justice of the cause in which they had undertaken—therefore, fearing that he should not gain the point, he took those of his people who would and departed into the bland of Nephi.
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29a
TG
Doubt b Alma 47:20
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30 Now Moroni thought it was not expedient that the Lamanites should
have any more astrength; therefore he thought to cut off
the people of Amalickiah, or to take them and bring them back,
and put Amalickiah to death; yea, for he knew that he would stir
up the Lamanites to anger against them, and cause them to come to
battle against them; and this he knew that Amalickiah would do
that he might obtain his purposes.
31 Therefore Moroni thought it was expedient that he should take his armies, who had gathered themselves together, and armed themselves, and entered into a covenant to keep the peace—and it came to pass that he took his army and marched out with his tents into the wilderness, to cut off the course of Amalickiah in the wilderness.
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30a
Alma 43:51
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32 And it came to pass that he did according to his desires, and
marched forth into the wilderness, and headed the armies of
Amalickiah.
33 And it came to pass that Amalickiah afled with a small number of his men, and the remainder were delivered up into the hands of Moroni and were taken back into the land of Zarahemla.
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33a
Alma 47:1
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34 Now, Moroni being a man who was aappointed by
the chief judges and the voice of the people, therefore he had power
according to his will with the armies of the Nephites, to establish and to
exercise authority over them.
35 And it came to pass that whomsoever of the Amalickiahites that would not enter into a covenant to support the acause of freedom, that they might maintain a free bgovernment, he caused to be put to death; and there were but few who denied the covenant of freedom. 36 And it came to pass also, that he caused the atitle of liberty to be hoisted upon every tower which was in all the land, which was possessed by the Nephites; and thus Moroni planted the standard of liberty among the Nephites.
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34a
Alma 43:16 35a Alma 43:30 b TG Governments 36a Alma 62:4
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37 And they began to have peace again in the land; and thus they did
maintain peace in the land until nearly the *end of the
nineteenth year of the reign of the judges.
38 And Helaman and the ahigh priests did also maintain order in the church; yea, even for the space of four years did they have much peace and rejoicing in the church. 39 And it came to pass that there were many who died, firmly abelieving that their souls were redeemed by the Lord Jesus Christ; thus they went out of the world rejoicing.
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37*
[72 B.C.] 38a Alma 43:2; Alma 46:6; Alma 49:30 39a Moro. 7:41 (3, 41)
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* Verse 37 [72 B.C.].
40 And there were some who died with fevers, which at some seasons of
the year were very frequent in the land—but not so much so with fevers,
because of the excellent qualities of the many aplants and
roots which God had prepared to remove the cause of
bdiseases, to which men were subject by the nature of the
climate—
41 But there were many who died with aold age; and those who died in the faith of Christ are bhappy in him, as we must needs suppose.
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40a
D&C 59:17-20;
D&C 89:10 b Ezek. 47:12; TG Health; TG Sickness 41a TG Old Age b Rev. 14:13
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