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🗓️ 4 September 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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0:00.0 | One of the most remarkable sections of the entire Book of Mormon, in my opinion, on a lot |
0:06.8 | of levels and for a variety of reasons. |
0:09.5 | Heelman 13 through 16. |
0:11.7 | Number one, look at how it starts. |
0:17.1 | Last week you'll remember, we were in the pride cycle and watching how many times the Nephites |
0:22.3 | were just going around this almost like a Ferris wheel, this pride cycle. |
0:27.5 | Now look at chapter 13 verse 1. It came to pass in the 80 and 6th year, the Nephites did still |
0:32.2 | remain in wickedness, yea in great wickedness while the Lamanites did observe strictly to keep the commandments |
0:38.9 | of God according to the law of Moses. |
0:41.4 | So you get this total reversal of the Lamanites and the Nephites that sets the stage here. |
0:48.3 | And it came to pass that in this year there was, notice how Mormon words this, there was one Samuel, a Lamanite. |
0:58.0 | Now, the question is, is there only one Samuel in all the land and he happens to be a Lamanite? |
1:04.0 | I don't think that's what he means. |
1:06.0 | I think it's just a common guy, there's one Samuel among many Samuels and he happens to be a |
1:12.4 | Lamanite. We know nothing, absolutely nothing about this guy's background. We don't know |
1:19.3 | his parentage. We don't know if he's part of the group of the anti-Nephi Lehiites or if he |
1:25.4 | had been in the same group with the stripling warriors. We don't |
1:30.2 | know where his hometown is. We don't know who taught him the gospel. How he got converted for |
1:35.5 | sure, if it was Nephi and Lehi in his mission, if he was part of that group. We know nothing |
1:40.0 | about him. We don't know if he's married. We don't know if he has children. We don't |
1:43.8 | know where he lives currently. So he just shows up, he came into the land of Zarahimla, and he begins |
1:50.9 | to preach to the people. Now, just as a side note, there are very, very few people in the |
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