Modern Day

It wasn't so much of an epiphany, more like a dawning of correlations. As I read here today, I was struck by the clarity of these versus in light of current events.

2 Nephi 24:1-7
1 ^aFor the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet ^bchoose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the ^cstrangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 And the people shall take them and bring them to their place; yea, from far unto the ends of the earth; and they shall return to their ^alands of promise. And the house of Israel shall ^bpossess them, and the land of the Lord shall be for ^cservants and handmaids; and they shall take them captives unto whom they were captives; and they shall ^drule over their oppressors.

3 And it shall come to pass in that day that the Lord shall give thee ^arest, from thy sorrow, and from thy fear, and from the hard bondage wherein thou wast made to serve.

4 And it shall come to pass in that day, that thou shalt take up this proverb ^aagainst the king of ^bBabylon, and say: How hath the oppressor ceased, the golden city ceased!

(Babylon, as a city, was in what is Modern Iraq. Note the neighborhood: Syria, Israel, Iran, Afghanistan.)

5 The Lord hath broken the staff of the ^awicked, the scepters of the rulers.

(http://www.cnn.com/2012/03/02/world/meast/syria-unrest/index.html?hpt=hp_t3)

6 ^aHe who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

(http://www.bradenton.com/2012/03/02/3913203/move-over-egypt-iraq-and-syria.html)

7 The whole earth is at ^arest, and is quiet; they break forth into ^bsinging.

The voices of the world shout out in anger and fear today, both heard and unheard. It is violent and I hear it from across the world, not with my ears but deep within me. It is a source of great sorrow for me. How marvelous it will be when the day of "rest" comes and all "is quiet." Then a joyful noise of song and true peace will fill the skies. How glorious indeed to hear the end of war and domination, and welcome serenity and perpetual safety.