Day 121 Abinadi's Bold Stand and Prophetic Warnings
Show Notes
Join Allen Roberds for a reflection on Mosiah 12:1-20, focusing on Abinadi's bold stand and prophetic warnings to King Noah's priests, especially as depicted in Mosiah 12:19. This episode explores how Abinadi's unwavering testimony and clear counsel parallel the urgent warnings and guidance from modern prophets, challenging listeners to live their covenants and testify boldly.
Key Points
- Abinadi demonstrated incredible boldness by withstanding all questions from King Noah's priests, confounding them through the Spirit of the Lord as described in Mosiah 12:19.
- The episode connects Abinadi's prophetic warnings to experiences where one must stand firmly and testify of what they know to be true, even when challenged.
- Modern prophetic counsel, particularly 'The Family: A Proclamation to the World,' offers clear warnings that echo Abinadi's ancient prophecies, emphasizing accountability and the consequences of family disintegration.
- Listeners are invited to ponder their response to counsel from modern prophets and personal revelation, encouraging them to keep covenants and boldly bear testimony like Abinadi.
What are we doing as we hear counsel from our leaders today and as we seek counsel from the Lord ourselves through personal revelation to make sure that we do all that we can to keep our covenants, live the commandments, and stand boldly as Abinadi did in testimony of those things which we know to be true.
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Full Transcript
In Matthew 5:13, Jesus tells his followers that they are the salt of the earth, and in the same sentence offers a warning that savorless salt is good for nothing. Join me in an attempt to be savory salt as I share each day one verse of scripture and one small thought. Perhaps this small daily emphasis can lead to greater savor in your life and ultimately you and I can be savory salt.
Hello, my friends and family, wherever you're listening from. Thank you for joining me and know that I'm cheering for your every success. Warning, warning, warning.
Destruction is inevitable. Warning. That seems to be the words coming from Abinadi as he stands before the people of King Noah.
And yet that warning seems to be coming from Abinadi. Welcome to Day 121 on our 365-day journey through the Book of Mormon. Today you're reading Mosiah 12:1-20.
And inside of it, we're going to start getting into these teachings of Abinadi. And we're going to see his back and forth, especially with the priests of King Noah, as they sit there trying to convince King Noah that there is nothing to be worried about. Let's take a look at our verse for the day and see what we can dive into here and understand better with Abinadi.
Today's verse is Mosiah 12:19. And it says this: "And they began to question him" – this is the priests of Noah – "and they began to question him that they might cross him, that thereby they might have wherewith to accuse him. But he answered them boldly and withstood all their questions, yea, to their astonishment.
For he did withstand them in all their questions, and he did confound them in all their words." You know, sometimes I think about times in my life when I've had people trying to say, well, what about this? I talked about this just a few episodes ago when it came to the believe in God scripture that we talked about. But I've had times in my life where people are trying to pin me down on specific questions, and Abinadi here is able to just counter that.
I think about 'boldly,' and I think about times where I've had nothing else to be able to do but simply testify of what I know to be true. I can think of a couple specific examples in my life where we were going around and around and I could see clearly that whatever my beliefs were were not their beliefs and that was okay, but they were going to do everything they could to change my beliefs in a given topic. And here we see Abinadi about to sit down and really lock in and unload through the Spirit of the Lord.
It also got me thinking about: Have we had something this bold given to us in our day? And I had to kind of think about it, you know, because the prophets today do share and suggest and invite very clearly things that we should be doing in our lives. And then it occurred to me, wow, there's actually very close vocabulary, at least in the way that Abinadi presents it here with the warnings in our modern day.
If you remember, or if you've ever read, maybe you haven't, I'll put a link in here for you. But if you've ever read "The Family: A Proclamation to the World" from the First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, you will see in there a very close vocabulary. Very interesting paragraph.
I want to read it for you. It says near the end of it: "We warn that individuals who violate covenants of chastity, who abuse spouse or offspring, or who fail to fulfill family responsibilities will one day stand accountable before God. Further, we warn that the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets." My friends, it doesn't get clearer than that.
There are absolutely warnings that come from prophets of God. Abinadi shared his warning to the people of Noah and they refused to hear it. What are we doing as we hear counsel from our leaders today and as we seek counsel from the Lord ourselves through personal revelation to make sure that we do all that we can to keep our covenants, live the commandments, and stand boldly as Abinadi did in testimony of those things which we know to be true.
And worth digging into. That's all for today, my friends. Remember that by small and simple things are great things brought to pass.
Keep it small, keep it simple, and always seek to be savory salt. I'll be here tomorrow. I hope you are too.
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