Cpt moroni title of liberty-constitution-2014

Cpt. Moroni, the Title of Liberty

and the U. S. Constitution C. E. Tapie Rohm Jr.

Bishop NorthPark YSA Ward

The season of the World

“The season of the world before us will be like no other in the history of the mankind. Satan has unleased every evil, every scheme, every blatant, vile perversion ever know to man in any generation. Just as this is the dispensation of the fullness of times, so it is also the dispensation of the fullness of evil.

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The season of the World

We and our wives and husbands, our children, and our members must find safety. There is no safety in the world; wealth cannot provide it, enforcement agencies cannot assure it, membership in this Church alone cannot bring it.”

Elder Vaughn J. Featherstone, April 1987

Temple Statement for Utah South


The Book of Mormon

We have been told the Book of Mormon is a book for our time. As you have read in the Book of Mormon, have you ever wondered why the Lord instructed the prophet-historian, Mormon, to include the war years in the book of Alma?


Cpt Moroni & The War Years

Book of Mormon, Alma 43-62, “The War Years”

What groups were involved in the war years? Nephites Lamanites Amalickiahites King-men People of Ammon Nephite government



How old was Moroni when he was called as captain of the armies of the Nephites?

What do we know about nephite war leaders?



Pattern of Stratagem (Strategies)

Cpt. Moroni sees a weakness and inspired to change it.

Cpt. Moroni enemies like the changes and copy them.



Nephites inspired by a better cause, “they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.” Alma 43:45


Cpt Moroni & Title of Liberty

The Title of Liberty

“In memory of our god, our religion, and our

freedom, and our peace, our wives, and our

children.”

Alma 46:12


Cpt Moroni & Title of Liberty

How did Cpt Moroni use the Title of Liberty?

Why did he do this?

What was the result?


Putting the piceses together

Inspired Leaders

Revelation for new changes

Following the Inspired leaders

Revelation comes as enemy adapts

More Revelation for changes

New enemies keep coming up

Dynamic times to live in


The U.S. Constitution

The Divinely Inspired Constitution - Ensign Feb. 1992 - ensign

www.lds.org/ensign/1992/02/the-divinely-inspired-constitution?lang=eng

Elder Dallin H. Oaks has said, “No wonder modern revelation says that God established the U.S. Constitution and that it “should be maintained for the rights and protection of all flesh, ... “

Our Divine Constitution - Ensign Nov. 1987 - ensign

www.lds.org/ensign/1987/11/our-divine-constitution

President Ezra Taft Benson has said, “The Constitution of the United States has served as a model for many nations and .... Only in this foreordained land, under its God-inspired Constitution … ...

The Constitution—A Glorious Standard - Ensign Sept. 1987 - ensign

www.lds.org/ensign/1987/09/the-constitution-a-glorious-standard?lang=eng

President Ezra Taft Benson has said, “The central issue in that premortal council was: Shall the children of God have ... let us now turn to a discussion of the inspired document we call the Constitution.


https://www.lds.org/ensign/1992/02/the-divinely-inspired-constitution?lang=eng







https://www.lds.org/ensign/1987/11/our-divine-constitution







https://www.lds.org/ensign/1987/09/the-constitution-a-glorious-standard?lang=eng










What do we know about the purported statement of Joseph Smith that the Constitution would hang by a thread and that the elders would save it?

Questions of general gospel interest answered for guidance, not as official statements of Church policy.

Ensign, 1976. I have a Question


http://mormon.org/joseph-smith


D. Michael Stewart, Brigham Young University, Department of History The documents show that Joseph Smith did prophesy a number of times that the United States and the Constitution would be imperiled and that the elders would have a hand in saving them. The first known record of the prophecy dates to July 19, 1840, in Nauvoo, when the prophet spoke about the redemption of Zion. Using Doctrine & Covenants 101 as a text, he said, “Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution is on the brink of ruin this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.” (Joseph Smith Papers, LDS Church Historical Archives, Box 1, March 10, 1844.)





https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/101.title?lang=eng







http://josephsmithpapers.org/






There are also other documents in Church History files that show that five different early Saints recorded some remarks by the Prophet Joseph Smith on this same prophecy, perhaps voiced by the Prophet a number of times in a number of ways after 1840. Parley P. Pratt wrote in 1841 that the prophet said, “The government is fallen and needs redeeming. It is guilty of Blood and cannot stand as it now is but will come so near desolation as to hang as it were by a single hair!!!!! Then the servants goes [sic] to the nations of the earth, and gathers the strength of the Lord’s house! A mighty army!!!!!! And this is the redemption of Zion when the saints shall have redeemed that government and reinstated it in all its purity and glory!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” (George A. Smith Papers, Church Archives, Box 7, Folder 5, January 21, 1841.)



Orson Hyde recalled that the Prophet predicted that “the time would come that the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow and said he, if the constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language as nearly as I can recollect it.” (JD, 6:150.)



In a Pioneer Day celebration in Ogden in 1871, Eliza R. Snow said, “I heard the prophet say, ‘The time will come when the government of these United States will be so nearly overthrown through its corruption, that the Constitution will hang as it were by a single hair, and the Latter-day Saints—the Elders of Israel—will step forward to its rescue and save it.” (Journal History, MSF 143 #28, July 24, 1871.)



On various occasions, Joseph Smith referred to the Constitution, the country, and destiny of the nation; and there is clear evidence that he anticipated future peril. Furthermore, he pronounced the prophecy at various times and places. Perhaps he himself interchanged the simile “on the brink of ruin,” “hang by a brittle thread,” “hang by a single hair,” etc., to describe the anticipated crisis. It is also clear that the redeemers or rescuers of the Constitution were to be either the Saints generally or priesthood officers specifically.



Since no particular time was given for fulfilling this prophecy, members of the Church have often wondered about its timing. The prophecy clearly indicates a single, identifiable episode yet to come. However, it is helpful for us to constantly be on guard against threats to the central elements of the Constitution. It is not wise to sit by and think that the protection of the Constitution is the problem of someone else at some other time.



Thus, rather than simply wait for the one time when the Constitution shall hang by a thread, Latter-day Saints must continually be vigilant. Our commission to save the Constitution is, like salvation, a continuing task, and Church leaders have pointed out the tools available: analysis of constitutional principles, personal study of the history of our nation, reading the Constitution to children at home and in schools, teaching them self-sacrifice—the principle that makes freedom possible—teaching them their obligations as mature citizens, recognizing and resisting ideologies that threaten constitutional principles, and developing loyalty to principle rather than to men or parties.


What has the Church done?

Established BYU Law School in 1973

Encouraged all members to get involved in local, state and national politics.

Encouraged all members to become informed and vote for the best candidates.

Three of twelve Apostles are former lawyers


What have we learned?

Study the Book of Mormon Follow the prophets Hoist your own Title of Liberty Get people to follow you in

righteousness Get involved in local, state and national

activities in your Community Always be informed and vote Be willing to change when asked by the

prophets


Spiritual

Cpt moroni title of liberty-constitution-2014