This is about Mormon’s dilemma, not “a Mormon’s” dilemma. I’m talking about the man Mormon, not the people called Mormons today.
Mormon was an ancient follower of Jesus Christ in the New World who lived around 400 A.D. At the age of ten years, a family friend identified him as an astute youth and a believer. He entrusted the boy Mormon with the secrets location of the ancient records of his people. As a young man of just 16 years of age, Mormon rose to become the commander of an army.
Yet Mormon faced a dilemma as the commander. His people were wicked beyond the pale. Years of conflict and bloodshed had corrupted them. They no longer sought truth, but vengeance. They sought to destroy their enemies in an offensive campaign that would supposedly rid them of their generational foes forever. (It sounds kind of like the War on Terror, doesn’t it.) The government responded by changing military doctrine to “pre-emptive war,” like the Bush doctrine, and Mormon could not abide it. He resigned his commission and returned to civilian life.
He saw the struggles of his people as they fought on against their enemies, who were strengthened and hardened in their hatred by the Gadianton robbers. The Gadiantons were a secretive cabal of elites that sought to overthrow the liberty of all the people. (Sound familiar?) Mormon lamented to see the soldiers he formerly commanded being trodden down by their enemies. He knew that God had withdrawn his Spirit from them. He knew they were doomed. Yet how could he stand by idly and wait for the end to come? He could not bear it and he returned to lead them into what he knew was very likely a hopeless war.
In those final battles, over 200,000 of Mormon’s people died. Even Mormon himself was mortally wounded. He passed his knowledge about the location of the sacred records he had written to his son and bid him farewell as he succumbed to his wounds.
The dilemma we latter-day saints have faced, especially those “never-Trump” guys, is that the Gadianton robbers were very close to attaining the final victory. A 16-year plan was revealed by Q that tells us the timeline of that plan. Obama had the first eight years. Hillary was to have the last. In those last eight years, the Cabal had planned a nuclear war and the total destruction of America. That was Hillary’s mission. Trump’s election miraculously derailed that plan.
Now we have time and a chance to defeat the Cabal for maybe a generation or more. Trump isn’t the Second Coming of Jesus. All the bad stuff is supposed to happen before that time will still happen. But we may have a brief reprieve. There may be time to set back the Cabal’s plans in time for us to finish preaching the gospel to every nation. Perhaps Q will set the plan back far enough that we can send missionaries into North Korea, China, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and other nations where we currently can’t go. Perhaps it gives us time to gather more of the elect and prepare to build Zion.
If your dilemma is that you can’t get behind Trump because he couldn’t get a temple recommend, maybe you should consider what the alternative was. Consider again that he is fighting the Cabal and standing up for freedom, the Second Amendment, and religious freedom. Don’t sit on the sidelines wringing your hands. The war is on. The time is now. Engage. Step up. Spread the word. Preach the gospel and stand up for Trump. Even if the war seems lost, it may buy time for us to accomplish what the Lord has sent us to do in this dispensation—the job that the Devil wants to forestall: building Zion.
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