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I find it interesting that the lord chastened the Brother of Jared because he didn't "call upon the name of the Lord. " in Ether 2. I wonder if the Brother of Jared had been calling upon him every step of the way up until that point and forgot or the Lord had just been freely giving directions that all the sudden stopped and no one thought, "maybe we should call him up?"
I think it must be the later, because in the prior, why stop? The fact that the Lord waited 4 years to come unto the Brother of Jared before he chastened him shows the great importance of this lesson, otherwise a couple of months would've sufficed.
It is the same lesson that Elder Uchtdorf shared with us in his talk "Hold On a Little Longer". He spoke about the saints in Kirtland who saw miraculous things like angels and a pillar of fire that landed on the roof of the temple. Shortly thereafter many of those same saints left the church and some were even in the mob that killed Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
How could these saints leave the church? Even though they experienced a recession, the bank of Kirtland failed and they were ridiculed for their beliefs. How can you see a pillar of fire and leave? How could the Children of Israel start worshiping golden idols shortly after God protected them with a pillar of fire and parted the Red Sea on their behalf?
Elder Uchtdorf said "One of the great, enduring lessons of the Kirtland period is that our spirits need constant nourishment." He then quoted President Harold B. Lee (1899–1973)
“Testimony isn’t something that you have today and you keep always. Testimony is either going to grow and grow to the brightness of certainty, or it is going to diminish to nothingness, depending upon what we do about it. I say, the testimony that we recapture day by day is the thing that saves us from the pitfalls of the adversary.”6
Or in other words, as the lord said "my aSpirit will not always bstrive with man." If we don't recapture our testimonies daily then we will invariably leave the faith. And How is it that we recapture our testimonies daily? "call upon the name of the Lord. " is one way that we learn from the book of Ether.
14 And it came to pass at the end of four years that the Lord came again unto the brother of Jared, and stood in a cloud and atalked with him. And for the space of three hours did the Lord talk with the brother of Jared, and bchastened him because he remembered not to ccall upon the name of the Lord.
I think it must be the later, because in the prior, why stop? The fact that the Lord waited 4 years to come unto the Brother of Jared before he chastened him shows the great importance of this lesson, otherwise a couple of months would've sufficed.
It is the same lesson that Elder Uchtdorf shared with us in his talk "Hold On a Little Longer". He spoke about the saints in Kirtland who saw miraculous things like angels and a pillar of fire that landed on the roof of the temple. Shortly thereafter many of those same saints left the church and some were even in the mob that killed Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
How could these saints leave the church? Even though they experienced a recession, the bank of Kirtland failed and they were ridiculed for their beliefs. How can you see a pillar of fire and leave? How could the Children of Israel start worshiping golden idols shortly after God protected them with a pillar of fire and parted the Red Sea on their behalf?
Elder Uchtdorf said "One of the great, enduring lessons of the Kirtland period is that our spirits need constant nourishment." He then quoted President Harold B. Lee (1899–1973)
“Testimony isn’t something that you have today and you keep always. Testimony is either going to grow and grow to the brightness of certainty, or it is going to diminish to nothingness, depending upon what we do about it. I say, the testimony that we recapture day by day is the thing that saves us from the pitfalls of the adversary.”6
Or in other words, as the lord said "my aSpirit will not always bstrive with man." If we don't recapture our testimonies daily then we will invariably leave the faith. And How is it that we recapture our testimonies daily? "call upon the name of the Lord. " is one way that we learn from the book of Ether.
14 And it came to pass at the end of four years that the Lord came again unto the brother of Jared, and stood in a cloud and atalked with him. And for the space of three hours did the Lord talk with the brother of Jared, and bchastened him because he remembered not to ccall upon the name of the Lord.
15 And the brother of Jared repented of the evil which he had done, and did call upon the name of the Lord for his brethren who were with him. And the Lord said unto him: I will forgive thee and thy brethren of their sins; but thou shalt not sin any more, for ye shall remember that my aSpirit will not always bstrive with man; wherefore, if ye will sin until ye are fully ripe ye shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord. And these are my cthoughts upon the land which I shall give you for your inheritance; for it shall be a land dchoice above all other lands.
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