Division
A few weeks ago Kreed and I were reading 2 Nephi 30 for our scripture study. Basically it is a revelation Nephi received describing how many of the gentiles and Jews during the last days will accept the gospel. The Jews will again be gathered, etc. But verse 10 really caught my attention. Perhaps because of the political climate right now.
The verse reads, "For the time speedily cometh that the Lord God shall cause a great division among the people,..."
Fulfilled prophecy!
Remember the gulf that divided those partaking of the fruit of the tree of life along with those holding to the rod from the great and spacious building. 1 Nephi 12:18, "...And a great and terrible gulf divideth them; (now look at what the gulf is) yea, even the word of the justice of the Eternal God..." Justice divideth.
"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for ME and my house, we will serve the Lord." Joshua 24:15.
I do not need to try to stretch across the gulf and have a foothold in the "vain imaginations of the world" while trying to hold on to the rod. I accept there is a division. I choose the Lord.
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