TrendZion

Passages drawn from the sermons and published works that carry this theme forward.

1. 1854·Jedediah M. Grant·Apostle
   Three days before the Prophet Joseph started for Carthage, I well remember his telling us we should see the fulfilment of the words of Jesus upon the earth, where he says the father shall be against the son, and the son against the father; the mother against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother; the mother-in-law against the daughter-in-law, and the daughter-in-law against the mother-in-law; and when a man's enemies shall be those of his own household.
2. 1855·Orson Pratt·Apostle
   If they are overcome in their bodies while here, if their minds are bound down in captivity by their great enemy, if they render themselves subject to him, it will produce misery and pain and wretchedness to every such soul. This is compared to a literal pain of the body by fire and brimstone, about which so much as been said by the religious world.
3. 1857·Heber C. Kimball·Apostle
   I am a pretty rugged fellow, and valiant for the truth; and may the Lord make everybody like me, that we may stand against our enemies; for the corruptest devils on the earth are the present aristocracy.
4. 1886·John Taylor·Apostle
   Talk of Christianity and of the Gospel of the Son of God, in all the ages of the world, whenever and wherever it was proclaimed, there was a spirit of hostility and antagonism manifested towards it from the very first. We may go back as far as the days of Cain. We read that Adam had two sons, named Cain and Abel. Cain lent himself to the enemy of all righteousness, and became what is termed in Scripture, the father of lies. He rebelled against God, and rebelled against his father, and instigated by the spirit of enmity which proceeds from the evil one, he killed his brother.
5. 1920·Heber J. Grant·Prophet
   Did you know that he prophesied that this great Intermountain Empire should arise here as a result of the persecutions of the Saints at the hands of their enemies?
6. 1958·Harold B. Lee·Apostle
   The prophet Joseph Smith in this modern day was facing martyrdom at the hands of enemies for saying that he had seen visions in which God the Father and His Son and others who had lived upon the earth had appeared to him as living, resurrected, glorified beings. Like the Apostle Paul, he dared not deny having had these heavenly manifestations lest by so doing he would offend God and come under condemnation. (P. of G. P. p. 49.)