Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #7: Do Not Treat Us as Our Wickedness Deserves

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

Here’s a cool story. Simon Maccabeus, the last of the Maccabee family who fought to protect the Jews’ lands and religious rights, was different from his brothers and his father. While his predecessors had no problem mowing down their enemies whether in occupied Jewish cities or ones they just wanted to conquer, Simon took a less aggressive approach.

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Apocryphal Scripture of the Week #6: Today Is Not Like Yesterday or the Day Before

Apocryphal Scripture of the Week: (see Doctrine and Covenants 91)

“Let us get up now and fight for our lives, for today is not like yesterday or the day before,

For here is the battle in front of us and behind us, and on one side the water of the Jordan, and on the other marsh and thicket, and there is no room to retreat.

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