(June 2, 2014)
One of the techniques for reading the war chapters in the Book of Mormon is to recognize that the war is a shadow of the War in Heaven that is raging in each of our souls. But a similar thing is happening in the Bible, here. The apostasy of the children of Israel is a shadow of the apostasy of each of us in our failures to follow the Lord.
For example, how many of us call upon the Lord and then complain when He does not answer our prayers (or does not answer them the way we would like)? And yet, are we not like the children of Israel, in that we have purged ourselves of wickedness, but not fully? Rather than root out all wickedness in our lives, we arrive at a comfortable point of non-wickedness (wherever that happens to be in our lives) just like the Israelites came to a comfortable point of occupation of the Promised Land. Do we, like them, reach that point and stop our personal fight in the War in Heaven? Does the Lord, like He did to Israel, at that point test us by refusing to grant us the deliverance we have requested?
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