My family and I visited Palmyra, NY this summer. Besides visiting an old Nephite mound that Alvin Smith was buried on, we spent most of our time in the actual town of Palmyra visiting museums. I kind of got the creeps in that town when I started digging into its history. I got the distinct impression that there were very dark forces at work.
My guess is this; the adversary knew where the plates were buried and collected some of his "best" followers to the area in advance in order to present a formidable force against the initiation of the work in this dispensation. If you think about it, not much of real importance occurred there.
Other than the most important events of the First Vision, getting the plates from the place where they were deposited and the first printing of the Book of Mormon, the town played no other significant role in the translation and setting up of the Church and eventual growth and explosion of this modern miracle. Most of it occurred outside that area - out of necessity. There simply was too much opposition.
My assessment of the town, was there was much occult. There was much baseness in the population - most likely due to the influence of the canal in the area. There was prostitution and magic and much else. At a later time (1860-1870's), the mainstay religions of the day appear to have gotten their footholds established and the area seems to have matured (or the garbage went underground) with the Victorian push.
There is an older Palmyra in Syria where things were not very good, either. Where the occult flourished with Baal worship. ISIS destroyed the "temple" of Baal there a while ago. Now, they will resurrect it in NYC; JUST LOVELY......
I agree with this article. Someone highly placed allowed it to be destroyed over there and now it is being allowed to come to Times Square in modern Babylon as a symbol of our impending destruction as we have fully embraced the culture of Baal:
http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/april-2016-the-temple-of-baal-will-be-erected-in-times-square-in-new-york-city
I wish this were some kind of joke. But it is not.
Julie Rowe From Tragedy to Destiny / New York City
ReplyDeleteThe destruction I saw in New York City was an example of what happened all along the East Coast. Skyscrapers and longstanding monuments crumbled into the pages of history.
Due to a series of earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes, the cities in the greater New York metropolis area were so flooded that you could no longer recognize them. Lower Manhattan was uninhabitable. The famed skyline was decimated as fires spread from building to building. I saw the New York City’s Central Park “wiped clean” due to flooding. The glass panels of the United Nations Building were shattered.
At Coney Island, some parts of the amusement park attractions were scattered all over and I saw roller coaster pieces floating in the ocean. I saw people gathering at Yankee Stadium. It had been damaged, but people didn’t know of anywhere else to go for safety.
The transit system came to a standstill. The Brooklyn Bridge fell apart. People who survived the initial destruction were stranded in the city. Trains, subways, and ferries stopped completely. Tunnels were flooded and impassible, as were most roadways. Time Square became a death trap of violence and destruction.
Ellis Island was almost completely submerged, and it appeared like the top half of the Statue of Liberty was floating in the water. Part of the torch had been bombed or otherwise destroyed. I don’t remember exactly what caused it, because a combination of destructive events were happening one right after another.
Farther south, Washington D.C. was flooded and essentially abandoned. Florida was greatly affected along the coasts and people sought safety by trying to go inland, although they were battered by tropical storms.
These same issues were happening all over the country. Las Vegas was cut off from civilization when I-15 was damaged in both directions by earthquakes. Hoover Dam cracked, which drained Lake Mead and caused a severe water shortage.
Along those lines, a major cause of the country’s problems was that most of the dams across the country failed. This brought tremendous flooding and caused hydroelectric plants to go down, affecting the power grid.
Adding to the misery, the following winter brought freezing rains, ice, sleet, and hail and snow storms to most of the country.