Most abominable church as described in the 13th chapter of 1 Nephi
What or who is the great abominable church? That is a good question. The brethren usually refer to it as any Church that is not the Lord’s church. I have wondered if it were not the Muslims. Many of them teach hatred for the Christians. The teachings in the Koran calls for the conversion or destruction of non-Muslim people. The following are some characteristics of the abominable church as mentioned in the 13th chapter of 1 Nephi.
1. Created in the gentile nations.
2. slayeth the saints
3. tortureth them
4. bindeth them
5. yoketh them with a yoke of iron
6. bringeth them down into captivity.
7. The devil the founder of it
8. gold, silver, silks, scarlets, fine-twined linen, precious clothing, harlots, are the desires of this great and abominable church. (Flagrantly immoral or unchaste: scarlet thoughts.) “…though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow…” Isaiah 1:18
for the praise of the world do they destroy the saints of God,
and bring them down into captivity. 1 Nephi 13:9
10. continent They are not on the American.
11. they have taken away from the gospel of the Lamb many parts which are plain and most precious; and also many covenants of the Lord have they taken away. 1 Nephi 13:26
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The abominable church is the whore of the earth. The following scripture from the Book of Mormon clarify it.
And the blood of that great and abominable church, which is the whore of all the earth, shall turn upon their own heads; for they shall war among themselves, and the sword of their own hands shall fall upon their own heads, and they shall be drunken with their own blood.
14 And every nation which shall war against thee, O house of Israel, shall be turned one against another, and they shall fall into the pit which they digged to ensnare the people of the Lord. And all that fight against Zion shall be destroyed, and that great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the Lord, yea, that great and abominable church, shall tumble to the dust and great shall be the fall of it.
(Book of Mormon | 1 Nephi 22:13 - 14)
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