Sunday, April 27, 2014

Helaman Ch11

Nephi prays to replace war with famine and people die from hunger instead of war which cause people to repent and rain is brought again through prayer. Nephi and Lehi both receive many revelations while Gadianton robbers are entrenching themselves in the land. I'm doing another time line for this chapter by the way.
72-73:  Wars have increased to spread among all the people of Nephi mostly caused by the gadianton robbers (v1-2). Nephi prays to the Lord to stop the bloodshed and bring a famine to the people to stir them up in remembrance of the Lord (v3-4).
74-75: The famine starts and people stop fighting because of the lack of food, which also causes people to die by the thousands in the more wicked parts of the land (v5-6). People were scared to die and began to remember the Lord and desired that Nephi plead with God to save them (v7-9). Nephi knows the Gadiantons were extinct and asks the Lord to turn away his anger because of the humility among the Nephites by letting it rain again, and Nephi knows his prayers will be answered just like when he asked for famine because of his great faith and promise from the Lord for mercy (v10-14). He asks the Lord with humility to give the people another chance to serve the Lord (v15-16).
76-77: The rains come again to cause fruit and food to grow and the people rejoice in the blessings from heaven, and they also recognized Nephi and his brother, Lehi as true prophets who help spread the word of the church throughout the land (v17-21).
78-79: Contentions start again over certain doctrine and strife gradually grows even though Nephi and Lehi are preaching about the truth of those doctrines and spreading the word of God (v22-23).
80:  Dissenters who are calling themselves Lamanites start a war with the Lamanites to murder and plunder to get gain, and they also search for the old secrets of the Gadianton robbers to start that gang up again (v24-26). This newly formed gang tormented the Nephites and Lamanites, so they sent out an army to destroy the robbers, but they were unsuccessful (v27-29).
81: They go to attack the robbers again with some success but there were so many of the robbers in the wilderness that they only grew stronger hiding out in the mountains (v30-32). They kidnapped, plundered, destroyed towns, and tormented both the Nephites and Lamanites which helped the remembering of the Lord because of the awful trial the robbers were (V33-35).
82-85: In these three years, the people began again to forget the Lord and his power, waxing strong in pride and iniquity not even trying to repent (v36). By the end of the 85th year they were again ripened for destruction (v37-38).

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