Ether 12:1-21
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Questions
- What is the "better world" mentioned in verse 4?
- vs. 2 - What does it mean when it says that Ether "could not be restrained" from going and preaching the Gospel to the people? Was he physically compelled? In Alma 43:1 it mentions Alma the younger having a similar experience: "And Alma, also, himself, could not rest, and he also went forth." Did these men both just have such strong convictions of the Gospel that they couldn't bear to not be preaching it? Do the prophets today experience the same thing?
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Exegesis
- vs. 4 - There are a couple of things in verse 4 that stick out to me. First, the mention of how our belief in God will allow us to not only hope that our eternal future will bring good things, but we can hope with a surety, or in other words...KNOW that this will be the case! Hope, combined with true faith, eventually leads us to a spiritual knowledge of things that are not seen or have not yet come to pass.
Second, I like the description of how hope and faith anchor our souls to the Gospel. When a ship is anchored, it may start to drift slightly away from where it is centered, but the anchor keeps it from drifting too far. Likewise, when our lives are centered on the Gospel of Jesus Christ, He becomes our Anchor. Tempations may continue to beset us, but our faith and hope in the Savior, coupled with His redeeming power, keeps us from drifting too far away from Him.
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