✨ ✨ “All Is Vain”
✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — ✨
“All Is Vain”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
In response to my last post (#59), some said: “Prophets and Apostles don’t share sacred things because the members aren’t worthy or ready. Even Christ held things back. If they told us too much, it would damn us.”
But pause and think about that.
If the body of the Church is unworthy to hear from those who lead them, then we are far worse off than we imagined. Why mention Zion or the Second Coming at all if the people who cheer “we’re ready” would, in fact, be utterly wasted by His coming?
Moroni was plain:
“Has the day of miracles ceased? … Have angels ceased to appear? … Nay! And if they have, it is because of unbelief, and all is vain.” (Moroni 7:35–37).
If angels are not ministering, if visions are not being declared, then our faith is already gone, our religion is hollow, and Zion is far away.
🔥 My Reflection
Elder Holland once said angels today are “often humans doing kind deeds.” But the scriptures disagree. Angels sent from the throne of God have a specific office:
“The office of their ministry is to call men unto repentance, and to fulfill and to do the work of the covenants of the Father…by declaring the word of Christ unto chosen vessels.” (Moroni 7:31)
That’s not just kindness—it’s priesthood power. It’s covenant work. It’s the very thing that prepares mortals to receive Christ Himself.
If we reduce angels to metaphor, we embrace unbelief. And all is vain.
The Aaronic priesthood is defined as an association with angels. The Melchizedek priesthood is association with Christ and the Father. But if one has not even received angels, how could they claim the higher? (D&C 107).
It makes me ache when leaders say: “Lean on my faith.” That’s not the gospel. Jeremiah warned:
“Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm… Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord.” (Jer. 17:5, 7).
Faith is not leaning on another’s arm. Faith is clinging to Christ alone.
Even Lehi taught us that. In his dream, he followed a man dressed in white—not an angel, not the Spirit of the Lord—and it led him into a dark and dreary waste (1 Nephi 8:5–7). Only when he cried to God directly did the path open again.
That is the lesson: do not trust in appearances. Do not trust even the “white robe.” Trust only in Jesus Christ.
🕊️ The Invitation
Stop excusing away the absence of angels. Stop justifying the silence of prophets. If angels have ceased, it is because of unbelief—and all is vain.
Ask. Really ask.
Knock, and don’t stop knocking until He answers.
Hunger and thirst for Christ until nothing else satisfies.
When your altar is soaked with tears, when you refuse to rise until He blesses you, then—as ancient Adam and Eve learned—He cannot withhold His messengers. Angels will come. And they will point the way back to the Tree of Life, back to His presence.
📖 Scriptures to Ponder
Moroni 7:35–37 — “If these things have ceased, wo be unto the children of men…all is vain.”
D&C 107 — Aaronic = angels, Melchizedek = Christ and the Father.
1 Nephi 8:5–8 — Lehi follows a man in white into darkness.
Jeremiah 17:5–7 — “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man.”
Lectures on Faith 6:8 — No one inherits the same glory without the same sacrifice.
🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.
Previous: Post #59 — “Apostolic Witness — Too Sacred to Share?”
Next: Post #61 — (coming soon)
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