how much iniquity doth one wicked ex-president cause #2

“…The heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live…”
(Ecclesiastes 9.3)
 
Wherewith shall I come before the LORD,
and bow myself before the high God?
He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good;
and what doth the LORD require of thee,
but to do justly, and to love mercy,
and to walk humbly with thy God?
​(Micah 6.6, 8)

another installment in america's mad state of rebellion:
how much iniquity doth one wicked ex-president cause #2
​8 february 2022

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For this post, we return to one of our paradigmatic texts.
 
“For behold, how much iniquity doth one wicked king cause to be committed, yea, and what great destruction!
 
“And behold, now I say unto you, ye cannot dethrone an iniquitous king save it be through much contention, and the shedding of much blood. For behold, he has his friends in iniquity, and he keepeth his guards about him; and he teareth up the laws of those who have reigned in righteousness before him; and he trampleth under his feet the commandments of God; And he enacteth laws, and sendeth them forth among his people, yea, laws after the manner of his own wickedness; and whosoever doth not obey his laws he causeth to be destroyed; and whosoever doth rebel against him he will send his armies against them to war, and if he can he will destroy them; and thus an unrighteous king doth pervert the ways of all righteousness” ((Mosiah 29.17, 21-23).
 
We would not be under necessity of returning to it so often, if the former president had disappeared into the sunset and stopped being a threat to all that is holy and good. But, alas, he continues to poison his acolytes with lies and deceptions, and to instigate them to violence and lawlessness with his own unholy madness. As the latest example of his treasonous behavior against not only America but against righteousness, we offer the following reporting.
 

“Donald Trump considered issuing a blanket pardon to participants in the January 6 insurrection before he left office, two former advisers have said.
 
“The news, from Politico, landed after Trump told an audience in Texas on Saturday he would issue pardons to rioters if elected president again in 2024.
 
“‘If I run and if I win,’ Trump said in Conro, Texas, ‘we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.’
 
“That prompted a storm of protest also fueled by Trump urging followers to protest against prosecutors in New York and Georgia investigating his business affairs and attempted election subversion” (“Trump considered blanket pardon for Capitol insurrectionists,” Martin Pengelly, The Guardian). 
 
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Here, we witness the same iniquity and the same wickedness and the same perversion about which the Book of Mormon redactor warned. We witness the same tearing up of laws and the same trampling under feet the commandments of God. We see his attempt to protect and promote his “friends in iniquity.”
 
Because we witness this despicable conduct, we are under necessity of issuing warnings about them. We cannot be complacent. “The enemy is combined [united]” (DC 38.12). We speak anew this warning from long ago. It is
 
“a mystery, a thing which is had in secret chambers, to bring to pass even your destruction in process of time, and ye knew it not… And again, I say unto you that the enemy in the secret chambers seeketh your lives. Ye hear of wars in far countries, and you say that there will soon be great wars in far countries, but ye know not the hearts of men in your own land” (DC 38.13, 28-29).
 
Even so, come, Lord Jesus!