Daily Thoughts

In the Book of Mormon we read that priests went forth among the people to teach the Word of God. They taught against all manner of wickedness and taught about the coming of the Son of God, His sufferings and death and resurrection. They taught that He would come to them after His resurrection.  This news was received with great joy and gladness. The Lord poured out His blessings throughout the land. Alma 16:18-21  "Now those priests who did go forth among the people did preach against all lyings, and deceivings, and envyings, and strifes, and malice, and revilings, and stealing, robbing, plundering, murdering, committing adultery, and all manner of lasciviousness, crying that these things ought not so to be— Holding forth things which must shortly come; yea, holding forth the coming of the Son of God, his sufferings and death, and also the resurrection of the dead.  And many of the people did inquire concerning the place where the Son of God should come; and they were taught that he would appear unto them after his resurrection; and this the people did hear with great joy and gladness.  And now after the church had been established throughout all the land—having got the victory over the devil, and the word of God being preached in its purity in all the land, and the Lord pouring out his blessings upon the people—thus ended the fourteenth year of the reign of the judges over the people of Nephi."

In the Old Testament we read that a heavenly messenger showed Ezekiel in vision a city where the temple is located.  Ezekiel 40:2-5 "In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.  And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.  And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thine heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for to the intent that I might shew them unto thee art thou brought hither: declare all that thou seest to the house of Israel.  And behold a wall on the outside of the house round about, and in the man's hand a measuring reed of six cubits long by the cubit and an hand breadth: so he measured the breadth of the building, one reed; and the height, one reed."

A verse in a thought booklet recounts how Jesus told Satan to get lost because it was commanded that we should worship only the Lord God and serve only Him.  When we're aced with temptations, we can likewise tell Satan to "Get thee hence" and refuse to listen to him!  Matthew 4:10 "Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve."