Secret Combinations

Last Days, Secret Combinations, Signs of the Times August 4, 2018

D&C 123:7-17 “…strongly riveted the creeds…blinded by the subtle craftiness of men…”

“…upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity. …Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them…”

Law, Politics, Secret Combinations June 17, 2017

Mormon apostle at Oxford: Lessons learned from Watergate scandal

“Service provides a natural barrier against the ills that flow in the wake of self-will and self-interest. A focus outside ourselves and beyond personal autonomy and personal pleasure will protect and strengthen conscience.”

Government, Last Days, Secret Combinations, Self Reliance, Signs of the Times, War, Welfare February 21, 2017

The Times in Which We Live

“The Book of Mormon speaks of the Gadianton robbers, a vicious, oath-bound, and secret organization bent on evil and destruction. In their day they did all in their power, by whatever means available, to bring down the Church, to woo the people with sophistry, and to take control of the society. We see the same thing in the present situation.”

Discipleship, Secret Combinations February 19, 2017

Spirituality in Leading and Teaching the Gospel

‘God keep our young people away from the low, from those who seek to follow the scheming plans of he who enthrones passion, who decries self-control, who renounces the sacredness of the family, and who, in the words of Marx himself, would “dethrone God.”‘

Government, Last Days, Law, Prophecy, Secret Combinations January 20, 2017

“Great Are The Words of Isaiah”

‘“Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight! . . . which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!”… This recalls how the Gadianton robbers, when they finally got control of the government and the law courts, when “they did obtain the sole management of the government,”…’

Communism, Constitution, Democracy, Government, Law, Liberty, Religious Freedom, Secret Combinations, Socialism, War December 29, 2016

“Whom Say Ye That I Am?”

“We of this Church have a particular regard for freedom under the protection of law. With us it is a religious tenet. …Only a free soul is fit to enter His kingdom. Men must learn here to live as free men and to apply the restraints which true freedom imposes to be fit for the heavenly realm. Hence we are unalterably opposed to the attempt of any nation or man or group of men, foreign or domestic, to take away or destroy or abrogate the freedoms guaranteed under the law of our land.”

Government, Last Days, Personal Revelation, Politics, Prophecy, Secret Combinations, Self Reliance, Signs of the Times, War, Welfare July 31, 2016

Stand Independent above All Other Creatures

“I stand before the Church this day and raise the warning voice. It is a prophetic voice… For the moment we live in a day of peace and prosperity but it shall not ever be thus… Great trials lie ahead. All of the sorrows and perils of the past are but a foretaste of what is yet to be. And we must prepare ourselves temporally and spiritually… We do not know when the calamities and troubles of the last days will fall upon any of us as individuals or upon bodies of the Saints. The Lord deliberately withholds from us the day and hour of his coming and of the tribulations which shall precede it… He simply tells us to watch and be ready.”

Liberty, Secret Combinations May 1, 2016

Ether 8:15-26 “…awake to a sense of your awful situation…”

“And whatsoever nation shall uphold such secret combinations, to get power and gain, until they shall spread over the nation, behold, they shall be destroyed;…Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation…”

Agency, Last Days, Personal Revelation, Prophecy, Secret Combinations April 24, 2016

D&C 89 “…in consequence of…conspiring men…”

“In consequence of evils and designs which do and will exist in the hearts of conspiring men in the last days, I have warned you, and forewarn you, by giving unto you this word of wisdom by revelation…”

Government, Liberty, Politics, Prophecy, Secret Combinations April 23, 2016

General Smith’s views of the powers and policy of the government of the United States

“No honest man can doubt for a moment, but the glory of American Liberty, is on the wane, and that calamity and confusion will sooner or later destroy the peace of the people.”