WHAT WAS THE HOPE FOR AMERICA AND THE RESTORED CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST? on ZIONS REDEMPTION RADIO 05-

Parallel Paths by Ogden Kraut http://ogdenkraut.com/?page_id=169

The Savior of the world bid all mankind to come follow Him. And as the hymn says, “He marked the path and led the way, and every point defined.” But although this path is easily marked, it is not so easily followed and is certainly not very crowded. Nephi referred to this path that he saw in a dream:

. . . there arose a mist of darkness; yea, even an exceeding great mist of darkness, insomuch that they who had commenced in the path did lose their way, that they wandered off and were lost. (1 Nephi 8:23)

But in this dream a way was provided to get through the darkness, and fortunately there were some who found the iron rod (the word of God) and held on to it until they got through safely.

In mortality the word of God serves as a guide to help us throughout our lives. For us in America, the revealed principles of Americanism are the political part of the rod and the eternal principles of Mormonism the spiritual part–combined together they provide a strong iron rod. If we cling to this rod, we will reach the correct goal and “partake of the fruit of the tree.”

But as the two sections of this book will show, many Americans and Mormons thought they knew a better path, and so they let go of the iron rod and began “wandering in strange roads.” (1 Ne 8:32) It is interesting to following these two [6] parallel paths of government and church as they detour from the path Christ marked out for us. However, we do have the promise that after leading through dark mists, deep jungles, dangerous swamps, and barren deserts, the two paths will eventually return to the one marked by the Savior. However, He warned that:

Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matt. 7:14)

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