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Thursday, October 20, 2016

SECRET COMBOS 101


Thanks to Heather from Awaken to Our Awful Situation on FB:
 
Awaken to Our Awful Situation
Secret Combinations
Helaman chapter 6 provides several insights into secret combinations, including how they work, what motivates them, and how they come to power:
1. Their two objectives are to get gain and power; then they glory in it (see Helaman 6:17; Ether 8:22; Moses 5:31).
2. Secret combinations require general wickedness to survive (see Helaman 6:21, 31, 38).
3. Secret combinations thrive on secrecy, violation of which is a capital offense (see Helaman 5:22; 6:22; Moses 5:29, 50).
4. Secret combinations involve formal covenant making (see Helaman 6:22; Moses 5:30-31).
5. They use murder, violence, threat of violence, plunder, vice, whoredoms, and flattery to get gain and power (Helaman 2:4-5; 6:17, 23).
6. Secret combinations operate on laws contrary to the laws of the country (see Helaman 6:23).
7. Satan is the grand conspirator and author (see Helaman 6:26-30).
8. Participants have court trials for their own people—not according to the laws of the land but according to their own set of laws (see Helaman 6:23-24).
9. They seek to take governmental power as rapidly as possible (see Helaman 2:5; 6:39).
10. Participants seek to overthrow freedom for others but seek to maintain freedom for themselves (see Ether 8:25; Moses 5:28-33).
11. Secret combinations cause the destruction of nations (see Alma 37:21, 26, 29; Helaman 2:13; Ether 8:21-22).
12. Secret combinations are abominable in God’s sight (see 3 Nephi 9:9; Ether 8:18).
(BYU Book of Mormon Student Manual 2003, p. 272.)

1 comment:

  1. Mike Stroud is great. check these out.
    039 Secret Combinations
    by Mike Stroud's Religion Classes
    Publish date November 6, 2016
    https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/mstroud/episodes/2016-11-06T19_56_37-08_00

    If you can't get it to play just download it.


    http://mstroud.podomatic.com/

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