Today I read out of Ether 2. Moroni tells us how the lord was guiding the soon to be Jaredites from the confusion of the Tower of Babel to the Promised Land or the Americas. He then starts a tangent about the requirements of living on the Promised Land and how a people thereon who are ripened in iniquity shall be swept off. I wonder if Americans are ripened in iniquity. What do you think? If not, what more would ripen us? If yes, why and how will we be swept off?
7 And the Lord would not suffer that they should stop beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even unto the aland of promise, which was choice above all other lands, which the Lord God had bpreserved for a righteous people. 8 And he had sworn in his wrath unto the brother of Jared, that whoso should possess this land of promise, from that time henceforth and forever, should
aserve him, the true and only God, or they should be
bswept off when the fulness of his wrath should come upon them.
9 And now, we can behold the decrees of God concerning this land, that it is a land of promise; and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall serve God, or they shall be
aswept off when the fulness of his
bwrath shall come upon them. And the fulness of his wrath cometh upon them when they are
cripened in iniquity.
10 For behold, this is a land which is choice above all other lands; wherefore he that doth possess it shall serve God or shall be
aswept off; for it is the everlasting decree of God. And it is not until the
bfulness of iniquity among the children of the land, that they are
cswept off.
11 And this cometh unto you, O ye
aGentiles, that ye may know the decrees of God—that ye may repent, and not continue in your iniquities until the fulness come, that ye may not bring down the fulness of the
bwrath of God upon you as the inhabitants of the land have hitherto done.
12 Behold, this is a choice land, and whatsoever nation shall possess it shall be
afree from bondage, and from captivity, and from all other nations under heaven, if they will but
bserve the God of the land, who is Jesus Christ, who hath been manifested by the things which we have written.
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