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Three thousand years before the birth of Christ, the peace in which the people of the Lord had been living was broken as fierce enemies moved against them. History does not record the reason for the hatred that drove the attacking army, but they seemed intent on exterminating these early Saints. The soldiers must have felt very confident as they marched in battle array toward the peaceful land. But instead of victory they would find an ignominious defeat, which came about in ways they could not have imagined.At least 65 years before the invasion, Jared and his wife, followers of God, had welcomed a son into their home. They named him Enoch, a word meaning "teacher." Enoch grew in righteousness until, apparently when he was 65 years old, the Lord called him to be a spokesman. The Lord promised him, "My Spirit is upon you, wherefore all thy words will I justify; and the mountains shall flee before you, and the rivers shall turn from their course" (Moses 6:34).The Lord was not speaking in hyperbole. Enemy armies approached, "and so great was the faith of Enoch that he led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even accord
Enoch's great work on behalf of the Lord's kingdom had been recognized by the God he so diligently served. Indeed, he told Enoch, "These which thine eyes are upon shall perish in the floods; and behold, I will shut them up; a prison have I prepared for them" (Moses 7:38). So great was the power of the Spirit upon him that "the people trembled, and could not stand in his presence" (Moses 6:47). In this vision Enoch understood how the Lord's people would be preserved: they would be taken off the earth. The Prophet Joseph Smith affirmed "that God clearly manifested to Enoch the redemption which He prepared, by offering the Messiah as a Lamb slain from before the foundation of the world; and by virtue of the same, the glorious resurrection of the Savior, and the resurrection of all the human family, even a resurrection of their corporeal bodies" (History of the Church, 2:260). Knowing what could happen to them, the Lord commanded Enoch to "prophesy unto this people, and say unto them-Repent, for thus saith the Lord: I am angry with this people, and my fierce anger is kindled against them" (Moses 6:27). Neither the Lord nor his people kept the fact a secret. Enoch's message to the people was, "Choose ye this day, to serve the Lord God who made you" (Moses 6:33). Given this terrible scene, the Lord assured Enoch that "my people will I preserve" (Moses 7:61). When shall I rest, and be cleansed from the filthiness which is gone forth out of me?" (Moses 7:48). What the Saints may not have known was that the Lord was already preparing a way to increase their understanding through the Prophet Joseph Smith's translation of the Bible.
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