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From: "Jeanette Skeem" <>
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Sent: Tuesday, September 18, 2001 6:19 PM
Subject: 9th book in scripture, 11th
chapter
This morning [9/17/01] I thought I would read whatever I happened to open
the scriptures to, as I was in a hurry, yet wanted a thought for the day.
I
opened the Book of Mormon and started to read, finding myself in 3 Nephi
9:11. I thought what I found was interesting, due to the fact that I had
just read a post by Sterling in which , in various
of
the prophetic books. This was in relation, I might add, to September being
the 9th month and the eleventh, the day of the Trade Center happening.
Most scriptures Sandra cited had something to do with fire, destruction,
burning, calamity, repenting, etc. So after I found that chapter 9 in Third
Nephi had to do with the destruction the Nephites had gone through and the
Lord reiterating all the different calamities the more righteous of the
people had been spared from and why that was--I decided, for fun, just to go
through and see how many books of scriptures would have anything to do with
those topics. It was quite amazing how many did have to do with that topic
in some way.
Ken said he could think of other 9-l-l things to look up. Why didn't I look
up the 9th book in the different books of scripture and the eleventh
chapter?'
So for starts until I have time to do others, I turned to the ninth book
in
the Book of Mormon, chapter 11.
This is the book of Alma. First off it tells how the judge of the law
was
to receive wages "according to the time which they labored to judge those
who were brought before them to be judged."
And goes on to explain the things the judge did and how he was to be paid
and with what type of money. He goes on to name the different types of
money and their values-- the senum of silver and senine of gold and shum of
gold, a senum and onti and shiblum and antion.
It tells us that the Nephites "altered their reckoning and their measure,
according to the minds and the circumstances of the people, in every
generation, until the reign of the judges, they having been established by
king Mosiah."
Verse 20 says, "Now, it was for the sole purpose to get gain,
because
they received their wages according to their employ, therefore they did stir
up the people to riotings, and all manner of disturbances and wickedness,
that they might have more employ, that they might get money according to the
suits which were brought before them" Ah, let's create the problem so we
can
get paid to find the answer type of thing, like we see today in our land.
I understand that it is Zeezrom, mentioned in the previous chapter, who is
doing the stirring up of the people, for "the object of these lawyers was
to
get gain; and they got gain according to their employ." The rest of the
chapter is the sparring going on between Amulek and Zeezrom, about the
reality of God. And Amulek gives his great words about God and Christ and
the Redemption and how we are all going to be arraigned before the bar of
"Christ the Son, and God the Father, and the Holy Spiritto be judged
according to our works. (verse 44)
I wondered about these references just being happenstance and perhaps I was
looking for mention of things having to do with the Trade Center. The
relation of this chapter to that would be that the Trade Center was, as one
senator put it, "our great symbol of America's economy." It was
interesting
therefore that the ninth book of the Book of Mormon and the eleventh chapter
of that book had to do with money.
And the words of Amulek telling about death and the resurrection also have a
message for those who lost loved ones in that tragedy.
Whether 9:11 in scripture is happenstance in which many have to do in some
way with the WTC, is anyone's guess. I find it interesting when I can see a
message there relating in someway to our situation today, nevertheless.
Jeanette
