The Nehor Letters

I wrote a series of letters after the manner of CS Lewis' Screwtape Letters called the Goodman Letters. Here is another one from Nehor to his devil assistant Korihor.

Dear Korihor, 

Masterful use of Mr. Renlund's talk that he gave in Mormon Conference this last October (2022). Getting Bishop Christensen of the Pilgrims Landing 3rd ward, to use it against Timothy Merrill in their Tithing Declaration, as an attempt to shut him up, was genius on your part. Merrill is a danger to us because he is one of the Enemy's Watchmen. Fortunately you are doing an excellent job of keeping the other ward members from searching the Enemy's words and causing them to persecute Merrill.They are so dumbed-down that they cannot distinguish the Enemy's words from our Master's. But to your credit and by using your gift of using our Master's illusions you have them believing they are actually using the Enemy's words.

Renlund's talk is such an aid to our cause and because our Master was so influential in getting the Mormon Church leaders to require their talks be used in classrooms and their Sacrament meetings, we have the advantage. Renlund's talk will be accepted as gospel in other wards as well. Keep tempting them to believe these talks are actually the Enemy's words. All our Master has to do is to distort the Enemy's words to cause those who are ignorant of the Enemy's words to be led by us. Brilliant!

There was a time, however, when we thought the Mormon leadership would actually use the Enemy's words as their sole curriculum. They talked a lot about teaching as the Enemy taught, but our Master helped them see that they would lose their influence if they went through with it. And of course thinking they would lose their influence was enough to keep them from using their scriptures. They love those seats at their conferences, and I am delighted how they quote each other and use each other's initials.

You also need to be complimented on getting Merrill's elders quorum leader to release Merrill as an instructor. Those armed with the Enemy's so called sword of truth we cannot influence, but we can influence those who interact with them in their ward. Keep them focused on Merrill's beard, the fact that he is a lawyer and was chastised by Bishop Christensen, and keep them away from his blog which I will not name here should this letter fall into our Enemies' hands. Because the Enemy's words are found in him,  we have no influence on Merrill, but we can hope that the persecution from his so called friends and brothers will cause him to not be filled with the Enemy's love for them. 

Keep the quorum leadership using instructors who unwittingly teach our Master's distortions and cause them to err in the Enemy's doctrine and commandments. Keep those ward members active and religious and they will remain ignorant of our Enemy's words and they will be bound by the chains of hell. Merrill will influence a few, but not enough for our Master to care. He has the majority right where He wants them--ignorant, unaware and self-righteous. 

Nehor

Nehor was referring to Tim Merrill's post The "P" Word.

https://www.owlofthedesert.com/blog. 

Which all should read. I would like to make a few other observations about this post.

1) The problem with staying in lanes is that you can't get off the road because it would require that you change lanes. Those in the HOV lane, or more accurately, the VIP lane, have little hope of going anywhere unless they are humbled and brought low, or in other words, change lanes. 

Isaiah's description is the best.

Exalted > humbled & brought low.

Humble > Exalted

2) "No power or influence 

can or ought to be maintained 

by virtue of the priesthood,

only by persuasion, 

by long-suffering, 

by gentleness and 

meekness, and 

by love unfeigned;

By kindness, 

and pure knowledge, 

which shall greatly 

enlarge the soul 

without hypocrisy, 

and without guile—

Reproving betimes 

with sharpness, 

when moved upon 

by the Holy Ghost; 

and then showing 

forth afterwards 

an increase of love 

toward him whom 

thou hast reproved, 

lest he esteem thee 

to be his enemy;

That he may know 

that thy faithfulness 

is stronger than 

the cords of death" (D&C 121:41-44).

3) Otherwise it is amen 

to the priesthood or 

authority of that man (D&C 121:37).

4) Let Isaiah set the record straight:

"Their watchmen are altogether blind and unaware; all of them are but dumb watchdogs unable to bark, lolling seers fond of slumber. Gluttonous dogs, and insatiable, such indeed are insensible shepherds. They are all diverted to their own way, every one after his own advantage. Come, [they say,] let us get wine and have our fill of liquor. (The wine in this case is self deception.) For tomorrow will be like today, only far better!” (Isaiah 56:10–12).

“Because of this my Lord said to me, Go and appoint a watchman who will report what he sees” (Isaiah 21:6).

“I have appointed watchmen on your walls, O Jerusalem, who shall not be silent day or night. You who call upon Jehovah, let not up nor give him respite till he reestablishes Jerusalem and makes it renowned in the earth” (Isaiah 62:6).

“Hark! Your watchmen lift up their voice; as one they cry out for joy: for they shall see eye to eye when Jehovah reestablishes Zion” (Isaiah 52:8).

5) And Isaiah again to those who call themselves prophets:

"Present your case,' says Jehovah; 

'Submit your evidence,' 

says the King of Jacob. 

'Let them come forward 

and recount to us 

their prophecies of 

events (endtime) heretofore. 

What were they? 

Tell us, that we may 

examine them and know 

whether they were fulfilled. 

Or predict the future for us: 

Tell us of events to 

come hereafter, so that 

we may know you are gods

(or even prophets). 

Perform something good or evil 

at which we will be dazzled 

and all stand in awe. 

It is clear you are 

of no account, 

that your works 

amount to nothing; 

whoever accepts you 

is himself an abomination'" 

(Isaiah 41:21-24).  

6) If there is a lane they should be in it is the the prophecy lane. 

7) In this church, you only have to believe the truth. Find out what the truth is. (Henry Eyring Sr.)

8) “An amazing, shocking thing has occurred in the land: the prophets prophesy falsely and the priests rule by their own authority. And my people love it that way. But what will you do in the end?” (Jeremiah 5:30–31)

9) Lehi’s vision of the Tree of Life

commences with a “man” dressed in a white robe who “bade me follow him” (1 Nephi 8:5–6; emphasis added). Instead of leading Lehi to the Tree of Life, however, he led him into “a dark and dreary waste.” That barren darkness soon became so intolerable as to cause Lehi “to pray unto the Lord that he would have mercy on me” (1 Nephi 8:8). Only then did he see the “tree whose fruit was desirable to make one happy,” which “filled my soul with exceedingly great joy” (1 Nephi 8:10–12). Because no precedent exists of a servant of God who asks someone to follow him into a dark and dreary waste, that “man” was no angel, and that place was not where Lehi found the Tree of Life. Only when he called upon God directly—independent of the white-robed man who led him—did he partake of the fruit of the tree.

10). Look to the Lord and Live

I am grateful to the Lord for sending Timothy Merrill as a Watchman in these days just prior to Christ's second coming.