“O Ye Fair Ones: The Mini Armageddon!” GET TO THE POINT™ Come Follow Me: Mormon 1-6

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"O Ye Fair Ones: The Mini Armageddon!"
 
I. Intro
i. You're looking good today and it feels good to be with you.
ii. Patter
II. Theme: "O Ye Fair Ones: The Mini Armageddon!"
III. Background Infor
i. Mormon is a child prodigy, 10 was sober, 15 second comforter, 16 leads armies
ii. Priesthood keys associated with The Book of Mormon
1. D&C 27:5 "keys of the record of the stick of Ephraim"
2. 3 Witnesses called the original twelve. Look at PH line of authority
iii. As I prepared reading, I was pausing,like standing on the tall diving board
1. Read Animal Farm and small Book of Mormon, not a pleasant experience
2. This is Mini Armageddon.
a. Dystopian to Post apocalyptic literature
b. Sci Fi collapse: Gamma World
i. Roman Empire and power vacuum
ii. Mallory's Le Morte d'Athur, chapter 23,
IV. Mormon 1
i. Child prodigy
1. Learned
2. Sober
3. Quick to Observe
a. https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/2006/12/quick-to-observe?lang=eng
ii. Decay, rot, wars witchcraft
1. Ethic divisions 4 N 1:35
2. Hot, kinetic war. Most of early life, 18 years, was in a Cold War, balance of terror with the Com Block nations; 9/11, etc woke us out of slumber. 2008 Great Recession, Covid-19
3. Wickedness
a. No gifts
b. no 3 Nephites
c. Mormon forbidden to preach
d. Slippery curse
e. witchcraft
V. Mormon 2
 
i. The child prodigy takes command (in 16, so 15),like Ender's Game.
1. How did he rise to the top? unexplained
2. Patter from Civil War, Lincoln just burnt though general, until US Grant rose to the top
ii. Fighting a loosing war: One complete revolution thought out the face of land
1. Armies frightened
2. Series of retreats
3. piled up like dung--saw Hutu and Tutsi in 1990s.
4. Title of Liberty: And it came to pass that I did speak unto my people, and did urge them with great energy, that they would stand boldly before the Lamanites and fight for their wives, and their children, and their houses, and their homes. 2:23
iii. Psychology
1. External conflict,versus cultural rot (magic slippery curse--two type of Gadiantons, organized bodies and subtle domestic version)
2. two verses
a. the sorrowing of the damned, because the Lord would not always suffer them to take happiness in sin. 2:13
b. And they did not come unto Jesus with broken hearts and contrite spirits, but they did curse God, and wish to die.  Nevertheless they would struggle with the sword for their lives. 2:14
c. Anti-reality mind: pride of appetites versus the feedback loop of experience
i. Emotionally attached to contradictory things
II. Mormon 3 The Idle Witness
i. Lord Speaks
1. "Repent ye, and come unto me, and be ye baptized, and build up again my church, and ye shall be spared."
ii. The Foul Oath
1. Gain victories
2. The Foul Oath
a. they began to boast in their own strength, and began to swear before the heavens that they would avenge themselves of the blood of their brethren who had been slain by their enemies.
b. And they did swear by the heavens, and also by the throne of God, that they would go up to battle against their enemies, and would cut them off from the face of the land.
iii. The Strike
1. Mormon utterly refuses to lead them
a. Offensive war issue
b. Preemptive strike
iv. The Lord Speaks again.
1. "Vengeance is mine, and I will repay; and because this people repented not after I had delivered them, behold, they shall be cut off from the face of the earth."
v. Comment
1. Call to repentance
2. Written to 12 tribes, Gentiles and Jews
III. Mormon 4-5 "Blood and Carnage"
i. Moroni watches, and records what he sees
1. Always seen wickedness and corruption
2. Comes to fruition, logical common-sense conclusion
ii. Events:
1. Lamanites capture Npehite women an children, offer up to sacrifice
2. Nephites outraged and fight back
3. Tipping point loose battles
iii. Mormon repent of oath (cf. People of Ammon)
iv. Comments on wickedness
1. General terms
2. Specific attitudes and actions in our day?
IV. Mormon 6 Mini Armageddon
i. Agree to fight at Cumorah (Rama of Jaredites)
1. why this location?
2. land of many waters, rivers, and fountains--lush
3. Hides records in hill
ii. Body counts
1. Out of 230,000, 24 survive
2. Population of Lamanites
a. Always larger
b. Other indigenous peoples
iii. Lamentation
V. Christ Quotient
i. Yes there is a tipping point
ii. You cannot pray Armageddon away
iii. Pattern to collapse
1. Pride (internal)
2. Wickedness (external)
3. Secret combinations
iv. There is one way out--Christ, and that's the point!
 
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