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 ::continue to degenerate (destruction) as it did anciently." (ENSIGN, Jan. 1988, pg. 5).

The Lord commands you Gentiles (including LDS Gentiles) to wake up and realize your awful situation when you see these secret combinations that will be among you.


 * Note: The prophet Ezra also testified, "I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world." (ENSIGN, Nov. 1988, pg. 86).

For judgments will fall upon those secret combinations, and upon those who build them up, because those who have been murdered by them will cry from the dust for vengeance.

Those who build up secret combinations seek to overthrow freedom in all lands, nations, and countries, and to bring about the destruction of all people.

They follow the instructions of the devil, the father of all lies, who by his lies has caused people to murder from the beginning of the world. He has hardened the people's hearts so they will cast out the prophets and kill them.

I, Moroni, have been commanded to write about these secret combinations so that evil may be done away--that