🌿 Walking With Jesus When the Warning Is Still Being Ignored
🌿 Walking With Jesus When the Warning Is Still Being Ignored
📺 Referenced Video
What Would Samuel the Lamanite Look Like Today?
👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OH4TfHJSkSQ&t=1045s
If you haven’t watched the video yet, I’d recommend starting there.
It asks a sincere question — and it’s one worth sitting with.
Why were prophets in scripture so direct…
so blunt…
so willing to offend?
And why does that kind of voice feel so rare today?
That question stayed with me.
So this post is just me walking it out quietly —
for my kids, my grandkids, and anyone who someday wonders why the Book of Mormon feels uncomfortable when read honestly.
📜 The Book of Mormon Was Written For Us
One thing that often gets missed is this:
The Book of Mormon is not primarily about ancient people.
It is about future believers.
It tells us that plainly.
From its title page onward, it declares that it was written to a people who would receive the fulness, prosper, and then be tempted to forget God while still using His name.
Jesus Himself speaks directly to this in 3 Nephi 16.
He warns that when the Gentiles receive the fulness of the gospel, if they become lifted up in pride, trust in riches, persecute the humble, and say “all is well in Zion,” then the fulness will be taken from among them.
That warning is not aimed at pagans.
It is aimed at believers.
That matters.
🔥 Samuel the Lamanite Wasn’t Harsh — He Was Free
Samuel the Lamanite is often remembered for how sharp his words were.
But the real reason his message cut so deeply wasn’t tone.
It was position.
Samuel stood outside the system.
He had no institution to protect.
No reputation to preserve.
No seat at the table.
That’s why he preached from the wall.
And that’s why the people were so offended.
Samuel didn’t rebuke obvious wickedness.
He rebuked comfortable righteousness — a society that prospered, worshipped, and felt secure while quietly ignoring the poor and rejecting living prophecy.
That kind of rebuke has never been popular.
🕊️ The Pattern the Book of Mormon Keeps Warning About
Over and over, the Book of Mormon shows the same pattern:
• Prosperity increases
• Pride quietly follows
• People begin judging one another by possessions
• The poor are blamed for their condition
• Leaders become corrupt
• Robbers gain influence
• Society fractures
• Destruction comes
Mormon tells us explicitly in Mormon 8 that the record would speak “from the dust” to a people obsessed with wealth, fine apparel, power, and inequality.
Not to shame them.
But to warn them.
Warnings are an act of love.
🌱 The Nemenhah Records — Not a Warning, but a Blueprint
Here’s where something important shifts.
The Book of Mormon shows us what happens when people ignore Christ’s warnings.
The Nemenhah records quietly show us what life looks like when people actually listen.
In The First Book of Tsi Muhayl, we don’t see coercion or forced righteousness.
We see a people guided by the Haymehnay (the Spirit).
We see:
• Councils chosen with humility
• Power restrained rather than accumulated
• Mothers protecting the future by protecting children
• No compulsion — only conscience
• Healing placed above profit
• Peace preserved by shared responsibility
In other words, the Nemenhah record doesn’t just warn about collapse.
It shows how a people avoided it.
One record diagnoses the sickness.
The other sketches a way of health.
👂 Why the Silence Feels So Loud Today
The video asks why voices like Samuel’s feel rare now.
I don’t think it’s because God stopped speaking.
I think it’s because true rebuke always costs something.
Samuel lost safety.
Jeremiah lost reputation.
Abinadi lost his life.
Real prophetic rebuke never comes from places built for comfort.
It comes from people willing to lose standing to tell the truth in love.
That’s uncomfortable.
So we soften language.
We personalize repentance.
We avoid collective mirrors.
And slowly, the warning becomes background noise.
🌾 A Quiet Closing Thought
This isn’t about fear.
And it isn’t about pointing fingers.
It’s about listening.
The Book of Mormon is still speaking.
The warning is still active.
The blueprint is still there.
But Zion doesn’t begin with institutions or systems.
It begins when people are willing to hear Christ again —
even when His words unsettle us.
That’s all this post is.
A reminder.
A record.
A quiet note left for those who come after me.
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