Destruction
In 1 Nephi chapter 1 Lehi has a vision and sees the destruction of Jerusalem. Lehi was from Jerusalem. Suppose you saw a vision of the destruction of your city where almost everyone was killed or marched captive to a foreign land. How would you feel to see such suffering among your peers? Lehi's response was to praise God, say his ways were just and that he was merciful. This was before Lehi was told to leave Jerusalem and maybe he imagined himself and his family being taken in the slaughter and surely if God had told him to stay he would have obeyed and suffered the consequences. I am not sure what all the wickedness of Jerusalem entailed. In the church movie it shows a slave market, drunkeness, prostitution and people unwilling to listen to prophetic warning. Isaiah and the Book of Mormon talk a lot about a society's oppression of the poor as meriting God judgement. We all know that our society is profoundly in trouble. It amazes me how vehemently both sides accuse the other...