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\"Thompson's<\/a>
The angelic rebuke to Alma and the four sons of King Mosiah
(Jerry Thompson; LDS.org)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Today\u2019s reading,\u00a0Mosiah 27<\/a>, covers one of the most dramatic stories in the Book of Mormon.<\/p>\n

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Alma the Younger, son of the chief priest, and his companions,\u00a0the sons of King Mosiah, were among the unbelieving and cynical critics of the Church. \u00a0In fact, they were arguably the most visible, vocal, and hostile of such critics. \u00a0It\u2019s probably not coincidental that they were also privileged aristocrats, members of the elite of their society, with advantages of status and education that placed them above most around them and, thus, made them especially dangerous.<\/p>\n

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But God intervened.<\/p>\n

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Alma\u2019s spectacular conversion was a pivotal event in his own life, and marked him forever.<\/p>\n

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We see its effects in\u00a0the great sermon recorded in\u00a0Alma 5<\/a>, where he summons his audience to deep and genuine conversion. \u00a0He himself was a convert, plucked from the fire, and he remained conscious of that fact for the rest of his time on earth.<\/p>\n

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We see it echoed in the way, after having almost certainly\u00a0recounted his personal conversion story repeatedly over decades, he had worked it into the elegantly and artistically chiastic form of its retelling in\u00a0Alma 36<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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And \u2014 I wonder how many have noticed this \u2014 we see its impact in his wish that everybody could have the experience that he had had, the spectacular experience that saved his soul and transformed his life:<\/p>\n

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O that I were\u00a0an angel<\/span>, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and speak with the\u00a0trump\u00a0of God, with\u00a0a voice to shake the earth<\/span>, and\u00a0cry repentance<\/span>\u00a0unto every people! \u00a0Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with\u00a0the voice of thunder<\/span>, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and\u00a0come\u00a0unto our God, that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the earth. \u00a0But behold, I am a man, and do sin in my wish; for I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0(Alma 29:1-3)<\/span><\/p>\n

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Notice the plain parallels, in Alma\u2019s expression of missionary zeal perhaps as much as a quarter of a century later (and, in my English edition, a hundred pages further into the Book of Mormon), to his own transformative encounter\u00a0with the angel.<\/p>\n

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