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Welcome to talking scripture, I'm Mike and I'm Bryce and today we're going to be in

Maroni 7 through 9 but we're going to do a little bit different we're going to

start with 9 first nine is the gruesome tale of why the Nephites really ought to be destroyed.

If you've been puzzled as to why the Nephites would be destroyed, read Moroni Chapter 9.

So we're just going to get this out of the way.

Yeah, so it's dark, it's gruesome, it tells you not only what the Lamanites are doing, but

even worse than that, what the Nefites are doing. And the summary to me is in verse 11

oh my beloved son this is mormon writing to moronai oh my beloved son how can

people like this that are without civilization. That's probably the best

description I've ever found is they have lost their civilization.

Therefore the Lord just says, they have to be destroyed.

Yeah, and I would just read verse 18,

that a poverty of my people, they're without order.

And then later, verse 20 in the middle, they're without principle and their past feeling.

There's a couple of chapters in the Torah, blessing and cursing chapters that I'll relate

in the show notes but in them there's a list of

cursings and that list is being fulfilled right here so without getting in any

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