Look! A prophet- oh now he's dead.

The Book of Mosiah

Chapters 11-17

 

So Zeniff died and gave the kingdom to his son Noah. Well Noah was downright wicked. He put really high taxes on the people. He had wives and lesser wives called concubines. He released the judges that his father had called and called new ones that would let him do what he wanted. They all had wives and concubines, and none of them worked at all, relying on the high taxes that had been put on the people.  Pretty much, everything had turned to crap, but they couldn't see it, and they thought everything was fine.


The Lamanites that they lived by went to attack  them, and they were able to drive them back, and their pride grew and grew.

So, there was all this wickedness going on, and one of their people named Abinadi (pronounced ah-bin-ah-die) started to prophecy to them, and he started to tell them that God was angry with them and wanted them to repent.  Well, long story short, nobody is happy that Abinadi is calling them out, and he gets arrested, and King Noah talks to him, Abinadi teaches the Ten Commandments, and Evil King Noah's angry as all get out, and Abinadi dies by fire.

But something very special happens.  One man, one of Wicked King Noah's judges listens as Abinadi taught and called them to repentance, and he believes his words.  This man was named Alma, and he will be a very important person over the next long while. 

So What?



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So there's now a wicked king that killed a prophet. Big whoop.  You hear this sort of stuff on the news all the time. 

Hey, guess what?  This happened around 150 BC, one hundred and fifty years before Christ came.  This happened amongst an ancient civilization.  Guess what else?  This has happened innumerable times before and after this.  The prophets and servants of God have been persecuted and killed since the beginning of recorded history. 

Basically, history repeats itself.
Also, what you say and do matters, and other people see that, as shown in that one person who listened, named Alma.