I finally held my first "current events" meeting and it was a lot of fun!! I have felt that I should do this for a couple of months, but when I read the scriptures the other day I knew I couldn't put it off any longer. I was just doing my regular reading (wasn't looking for scriptures on liberty or anything) and I was on Ether Ch. 8. I will just put on here part of the heading - it is Moroni speaking, "Modern Gentiles are warned against the secret combination which shall seek to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries." When I read this, I knew it was talking about today, and talking to me. I would advise all to read the whole chapter. The first part of the chapter is about what is going on with the people of Ether, but then Moroni takes a time out to talk to us, the people of the latter days.
A couple hightlights of the chapter is "...the work of destruction come upon you, yea, even the sword of the justice of the Eternal God shall fall upon you, to your overthrow and destruction if ye shall suffer these things to be. (verse 23)" And then in verse 24 it says, "Wherefore, the Lord commandeth you, when ye shall see these things come among you that ye shall awake to a sense of your awful situation, because of this secret combination which shall be among you... (vs 25) For it cometh to pass that whoso buileth it up seeketh to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries; and it bringeth to pass the destruction of all people for it is built up by the devil, who is the father of all lies..."
All I know is that when I stand before the bar of God I want to be able to say that I did what I could to preserve freedom. Our meeting is non-partisan, and I can say that with confidence because what we are fighting is found in BOTH parties. However, the problem does seem to be more prevelant in the Democrate party. What we are fighting is Progressivism. But the main purpose of the meeting is not about "dooms day" - we want to be positive and optimistic at all times. The main thing we want to do is be aware of what is going on at all levels of government - what is being voted on, etc. and attend town council meetings and write our representatives about current issues and VOTE.
I may not be able to single handedly stop Obama from what he is doing, but if enough conservatives stand up and voice their opinion, we can slow him down. We have been through similar things in the past, and we were able to get through it and "clean up" and at least somewhat restore conservative values. We are a LONG way from the 1700's but we can at least make a difference. Not that what Obama is doing is "modern" as he would like to say - People who love freedom and conservative values have been fighting people like him and what he stands for since the beginning of time.
