What does it take to listen to a prophet?
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[00:00:15] Speaker A: Welcome to the weekly Deep Dive podcast on the add on Education network. The podcast where we take a look at the weekly come follow me discussion and try to add a little insight and unique perspective. I am your host, Jason Lloyd, here in the studio with our friend and this show’s producer, Nate Pfeiffer.
[00:00:31] Speaker B: What’s up?
[00:00:33] Speaker A: Hey, Nate.
[00:00:34] Speaker B: How are you doing, buddy?
[00:00:34] Speaker A: Dude, fantastic. Happy Labor Day weekend as we’re recovering from a three day break.
[00:00:40] Speaker B: Recovering from. That’s right. Those of us with kids are. Yes, but they’re back in school today.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: When you have to have a vacation from the vacation.
[00:00:48] Speaker B: Well, yeah, I mean, my favorite part of vacation is the chance to get to hang out with my kids and force myself not to work. So, yeah, my vacation was good at that, so it was good. I’m glad you’re still here in the country.
Back actually in the studio. We got this week and one more week with you, right?
[00:01:09] Speaker A: One more week.
[00:01:09] Speaker B: Yep.
[00:01:10] Speaker A: Two weeks from here.
[00:01:11] Speaker B: All right. And then we’re back on the international call.
[00:01:14] Speaker A: Back, back. Doing it from the distance.
[00:01:16] Speaker B: All right, what do we got this week?
[00:01:18] Speaker A: This week we’re talking really focusing on Nephi. And this is one of the stories I think most of us are very familiar with when we would talk about Nephi’s discouragement at the wickedness of the people praying on the tower. And then you have the murder of the chief judge and some of the chaos that ensues there, and the sealing power of the priesthood really is what this week’s. Okay.
[00:01:41] Speaker B: Yeah, let’s do it. I don’t know if this one’s going to be a super long episode, but let’s just go. Let’s go meet in potatoes and let our listeners move on with their lives.
[00:01:49] Speaker A: Let’s do it.
You know, it’s interesting rolling into this week, you know, of course.
Of course Nephi is going to be calling out the murder of a chief judge because we didn’t have enough of that happening in the last ten years. I mean, you had Pahoran, right? And then you can’t really say his next son was. He was murdered, but it wasn’t for the same reasons. But then you have Helaman. He’s okay. He. But there’s a plot to kill him. And you have all of these assassination attempts.
Who is it? Caesar takes the seat because Nephi actually steps down. And maybe Nephi is saving his life from this. Right? He’s pulling an Alma and stepping away from the chief judge position, gives it to Caesar. And what happens to Caesar? He gets murdered. And then Alma’s going to call out another person getting murmured, murdered.
And what is the state of the country where you’re continually killing your chief judge?
What’s the right way to put it? Your figurehead, the person that stands at the head of your country, if you’re constantly trying to kill that guy, shows a lot of decay, erosion. But I think you see a lot of dissatisfaction with the people, the general, the masses. And I think even with the Gadianton robbers, you see a grassroots movement of, and maybe even going through a lot of the Book of Mormon with the king men versus the free men. Ever since you have this judgment seat, taking over the monarchy, you continually have this grassroots movement grasping, trying to take power, trying to take matters into their own hand. And if they can’t, at the very least trying to undermine the power that is. So there’s a little bit of that going on, and I don’t know if there’s a commentary for that today.
It’s just interesting to see the decay of this nation.
