The Words of Mormon - Prophetic!

 The Words of Mormon struck me this morning. It says this, 

“15 And it came to pass that after there had been false Christs, and their mouths had been shut, and they punished according to their crimes;

16 And after there had been false prophets, and false preachers and teachers among the people, and all these having been punished according to their crimes; and after there having been much contention and many dissensions away unto the Lamanites, behold, it came to pass that king Benjamin, with the assistance of the holy prophets who were among his people—

17 For behold, king Benjamin was a holy man, and he did reign over his people in righteousness; and there were many holy men in the land, and they did speak the word of God with power and with authority; and they did use much sharpness because of the stiffneckedness of the people—

18 Wherefore, with the help of these, king Benjamin, by laboring with all the might of his body and the faculty of his whole soul, and also the prophets, did once more establish peace in the land.”

This is so prophetic of where we are headed and where we are at. These false brethren haven’t been punished yet, but their day of reckoning is coming. Many false messiahs, those saying “follow us and you’ll be saved.” False teachers and false prophets who know not the Lord, feigning as if they know Him and the path back into the presence of the Lord. Those who know the Lord are speaking out against the false prophets/teachers and are seeking to help others look to the Lord, Jesus Christ, for redemption and not in any man, institution, organization or church. We are in the prophesied times when all churches are corrupt and the holy church of God has been corrupted (2 Nephi 28:3-14; Mormon 8:38; 3 Nephi 16:10). Men set themselves up as lights (2 Nephi 26:29) instead of pointing to Jesus, the redeemer (2 Nephi 28:5). We boldly share to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets have testified. 

I love Moroni’s declaration at the end of the Book of Ether, “And now I, Moroni, bid farewell unto the Gentiles, yea, and also unto my brethren whom I love, until we shall meet before the judgment-seat of Christ, where all men shall know that my garments are not spotted with your blood.

39 And then shall ye know that I have seen Jesus, and that he hath talked with me face to face, and that he told me in plain humility, even as a man telleth another in mine own language, concerning these things;

40 And only a few have I written, because of my weakness in writing.

41 And now, I would commend you to seek this Jesus of whom the prophets and apostles have written, that the grace of God the Father, and also the Lord Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost, which beareth record of them, may be and abide in you forever. Amen” (Ether 12:38-41).