-Mission
accomplished! The plates were
secured. While they had been threatened
and had to act to preserve their lives, they were safe and unharmed. The Lord had intervened on their behalf. They had seen an angel. Certainly the mission had developed
differently than they supposed. To be
sure, in their own minds it would have unfolded in a very different
manner. But such are the operations of
God in contrast to the operations of man. God’s ways are usually more simple,
more understated and ultimately more effective.
He works by small and simple. He
delivered a drunken Laban right into Nephi’s path –no need to battle fifty of
Laban’s guard. He makes the walls of
Jericho crumble. He shuts the mouths of
lions in a den. He kills a mighty
warrior with a single rock. He causes a
fog to shroud the enemy so an army can escape.
-How long
did this endeavor take? The journey itself
is estimated to take about two weeks both ways.
In addition, how much time did the three plans take to execute? At minimum, the sons of Lehi were gone for a
month. Their travel and objective was
nothing short of perilous. Analyzed from
a temporal perspective, the odds of their success were very low. Laban, we have learned, was a man of means, a
man of social status and power. He was
not naïve to the craftiness of man… this was their opponent.
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