Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Helaman Ch14

Samuel predicts the appearance of a new star after three days of light to signal Christ's birth and also signs of his death with three days of darkness. He preaches of Christ and His redeeming power, baring a sincere testimony of our Savior.
Samuel the Lamanites prophecies more than has been recorded, but the main topic is the one of Christ, in which he plainly says that in 5 years He will be born and a new brightest star will appear after 3 days of no night to symbolize the light that He brings to the world to redeem all who will believe (v1-5). There will be other signs and wonders in heaven to amaze everyone, and all who believe in Christ shall have everlasting life (v6-8). The Lord has commanded Samuel to tell everyone about this news so they can repent and prepare for this time, but he realizes the people are angry because of the harshness of the words (v9-10).
No matter how hard to hear, the wicked need to hear that the Lord's judgements await and the only way to be redeemed of our sins is to repent and turn to Jesus Christ, believing in His power and ability to save us (v11-13). The way He is able to save us is through his death, which there will be signs for also, and by His death and resurrection, all mankind are redeemed from the first spiritual death after Adam and Eve fell from God's presence (v14-17). Not only are they all able to be with God, they have the responsibility to repent and choose for themselves to make themselves worthy or else suffer condemnation and brought down to a second death (v18-19).
The sign of Christ's death is a darkening of the sky for 3 days until He rise from the dead and along with darkness there will be many natural disasters destroying civilizations along with ghosts visiting many people (v20-25). All these storms and darkness happen during the 3 days with the visitation from those already dead to give no cause for unbelief among the people so they can be saved through their belief (v26-29). Everyone is free to believe what they want, and we are all given the power to know and choose good form evil so whatever we choose in life is what we will have restored to us in death (v30-31).

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