Is there a sinister plan?
My brother Ben recently started a blog, and he’s already made several posts. In his most recent post, in reference to puppet-like politicians, he writes
A few months ago, I would have – in fact I did – dismiss these sorts of statements as crackpot conspiracies, but watching how the financial bailout has unfolded, I have to wonder.
That, along with his other posts, gives me hope that my brother is finally coming around to the truth.
Most LDS Church members have a mistaken, misguided notion that the United States of America is infallible. Our scriptures and our prophets speak highly of our great nation. We are told it is a land of promise and a land of freedom. Unfortunately this is where church members seem to stop listening.
Moroni, near the end of the Book of Mormon, in Ether 8:24 tells us, “When ye shall see these things come among you… ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you.”
He is referring to our day. What is this awful situation? What is this secret combination?
“Secret combinations” in the Book of Mormon were conspiratorial deals and acts committed by groups to get power and gain at the expense of others’ lives, freedom, and possessions. If you study secret combinations in the scriptures extensively, you’ll discover that governmental figures and leaders are regularly involved.
The “awful situation” is the fact that, despite living in a place that was founded upon the ideals of freedom and justice, secret combinations have snuck in and taken over. Yes, I say that emphatically: secret combinations have taken over.
Ben is noticing it with the federal bailout program. But that’s not the only thing. There is the Federal Reserve system. There is the United Nations. The World Bank. The PATRIOT Act. And most recently, the bailout. Just to name a few.
There’s not one single secret combination. In fact, in the scriptures, the secret combinations were usually manifold, colluding when possible, backstabbing when appropriate. Today’s times are no different.
Satan is always striving for our destruction. As members of the church, we are to be the people on the front lines fighting against him. What better plan could he concocted than to confuse millions of good people — people that should understand secret combinations — into thinking there are no secret combinations, and that the United States is perfectly fine?