Fiery Darts

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Fiery Darts

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Crying RepentanceBy Elder Rast
Or his best fish imitation
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From the Email bag

• I am John Murala from Hyderabad, India. I
  am one of the district counselman from
  Hyderabad district of LDS church in India. I
  often see your presentations (gospel
  doctrine) on the net.  We have a YSA
  conference in India next week for which we expect
  more then 500 participants. I will be speaking on
  "Standing for something".
• There is one mission in India (The India
  Bangalore mission) but from November there will
  be two. The second mission will be India Delhi
  Mission. There are 25 branches and over 6000
  members.
• The YSA's are coming from all over India and
  Nepal.Many will travel for a few days on train to
  make it to Hyderabad. It will be a conference for
  three days. Our mission pres is Pres Nichols from
  Alaska.
• There are over 120 missionaries and the church is
  growing.

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Young Man

• Asked about marriage, he replied-
• Im having issues with commitment
• Question-
• What does that mean?

the Savior we
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DC 27/Eph 6

• 15 Wherefore, lift up your hearts
  and rejoice, and gird up your loins,
  and take upon you my whole armor,
  that ye may be able to withstand the
  evil day, having done all, that ye
  may be able to stand.
• 16 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about
  with truth, having on the breastplate of
  righteousness, and your feet shod with the
  preparation of the gospel of peace, which I have
  sent mine angels to commit unto you
• 17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall
  be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
  wicked

Where are we supposed to stand?
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New Testament Scholar

• Certainly Roman forces used flaming missiles to
  destroy their enemies, but they were much more
  subtle appearing and more deadly. The "fiery
  darts" we read about in this passage were made
  from a hollow reed (something like bamboo).
• One end was stoppered then the reed was filled
  with a flammable liquid, probably a mixture of
  alcohol and naphtha. A loosely fitting stopper
  holding a wick was slipped into the other end of
  the tube and lit. It was then shot like an arrow,
  not a bundle of straw or some other flammable
  substances, but at the soldier himself. Since the
  missile had it's own fuel source and the wick was
  protected by the tube, the missile kept burning
  until it hit something.
• When it hit a soldier, the wick popped out, the
  liquid spilled over the soldier' s armor and
  ignited, cooking him in his own armor.

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1 Nephi 1524

• and whoso would hearken unto the
  iron rod, and would hold fast unto it,
  they would never perish neither could the
  temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary
  overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away
  to destruction.

Question In Lehis dream, where were fiery darts
of the adversary?
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DC 27/Eph 6

• 15 Wherefore, lift up your hearts
  and rejoice, and gird up your loins,
  and take upon you my whole armor,
  that ye may be able to withstand the
  evil day, having done all, that ye
  may be able to stand.
• 16 Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about
  with truth, having on the breastplate of
  righteousness, and your feet shod with the
  preparation of the gospel of peace, which I have
  sent mine angels to commit unto you
• 17 Taking the shield of faith wherewith ye shall
  be able to quench all the fiery darts of the
  wicked
• 18 And take the helmet of salvation, and the
  sword of my Spirit, which I will pour out upon
  you, and my word which I reveal unto you, and be
  agreed as touching all things whatsoever ye ask
  of me, and be faithful until I come, and ye shall
  be caught up, that where I am ye shall be also.

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Ezra Taft Benson

• Holy men and women stand in holy
  places, and these holy places consist
  of our temples, our chapels, our
  homes, and the stakes of Zion, which are,
  as the Lord declares, "for a defense, and for a
  refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it
  shall be poured out without mixture upon the
  whole earth."
• We must heed the Lord's counsel to the Saints of
  this dispensation "Prepare yourselves for the
  great day of the Lord."
• This preparation must consist of more than just
  casual membership in the Church. We must be
  guided by personal revelation and the counsel of
  the living prophet so we will not be deceived.

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Pres. Henry B. Eyring

• When we honor the priesthood, we have
  heavenly hosts and angels who are watching over
  us. Some of us know how literally that is true.
• Some of us have an absolute assurance that those
  whom we have known who held the priesthood who
  are now part of that heavenly host are deeply
  aware of what we are doing and sometimes deeply
  concerned for the quality of our service.
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  Making Covenants with God,
  BYU Devotional

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In Closing, John A. Widstoe

• These are trying days, in which Satan rages, at
  home and abroad, hard days, evil and ugly days.
  We stand helpless as it seems before them. We
  need help. We need strength. We need guidance.
• Perhaps if we would do our work in behalf of
  those of the unseen world who hunger and pray for
  the work we can do for them, the unseen world
  would in return give us help in this day of our
  urgent need. There are more in the other world
  than there are here. There is more power and
  strength there than we have here upon this earth.
  
• We have but a trifle, and that trifle is taken
  from the immeasurable power of God. We shall make
  no mistake in becoming collaborators in the
  Lords almighty work for human redemption (In
  Conference Report, Apr. 1943, p. 39).

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Joseph Smith

• We contemplate a people who have embraced a
  system of religion, unpopular, and the adherence
  to which has brought upon them repeated
  persecutions. A people who, for their love to
  God, and attachment to His cause, have suffered
  hunger, nakedness, perils, and almost every
  privation.
• A people who, for the sake of their religion,
  have had to mourn the premature death of parents,
  husbands, wives, and children. A people, who have
  preferred death to slavery and hypocrisy, and
  have honorably maintained their characters, and
  stood firm and immovable, in times that have
  tried men's souls.
• Stand fast, ye Saints of God, hold on a little
  while longer, and the storm of life will be past,
  and you will be rewarded by that God whose
  servants you are, and who will duly appreciate
  all your toils and afflictions for Christ's sake
  and the Gospel's.
• Your names will be handed down to posterity as
  Saints of God and virtuous men.
• (Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus
  Christ of Latter-day Saints, 7 Vols. 4337)