A Prophecy fulfilled

I read 2 Nephi 28 today and laughed out loud when I read verse 20. "For behold, at that day shall [the devil] rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good."

If ever a prophecy has ever been fulfilled it is that one. And we see if being fulfilled every single day. All you have to do it turn on the news and you will see people being persecuted and hated for standing up for what is right. When people stand up to the immorality that has become a way of life in this country people scream and rage against them saying they are intolerant and that they are the ones guilty of bigotry.

Think back to the latest vote against gay marriage in California. I say the latest for there have been several. When it did not go the way the liberals wanted it to go, they lashed out against the LDS church. They staged a protest against the Los Angeles temple. And yet there were many, many more people who voted to uphold marriage than just the Latter-day Saints. But we were accused of being hateful, bigots, you name it and we were called it.

I have never seen such hate directed at righteousness as I now see in the world of the news camera. I have never seen such a divided nation that is only divided because it chooses to be. I have never seen people carry around a wound of over 300 years ago as a badge of honor. I have never seen a people so willing to ignore the big issues and focus only on the little ones. We have people who attack the police and show no respect for the law and when those police naturally retaliate we get up in arms and scream "How dare that police man hit that person!". The devil most definitely has great hold on this people.

And yet, like Sodom before it, there is still good among us. We are not fully ripe in iniquity. The majority does not desire that which is evil. The multiple votes in California about gay marriage have proved that. Most of our problem is the majority does not speak out and defend ourselves when the minority causes a ruckus. If we are going to make changes in this world and stand up for that which is right, we must be that source of righteousness in the world. We can be the city set on a hill and the light unto the world! We just have to stand up for what we know to be right. Until tomorrow.