Mosiah 23-25

Mosiah 23-25 Study Guide: To be discussed November 1 (with Mosiah 19-22)

NOTE: Mosiah 23-24 contain the second flashback in Mosiah, describing the history of the group of people who fled the Waters of Mormon with Alma and began a new colony at Helam.
Day 1: Read Mosiah 23:1-15, with headnote to ch. 23
1. Why were Alma’s people able to stay ahead of Noah’s army?



2. Find three things Alma taught about kings and the reasons he taught those things.



3. What was Alma’s counsel to his people, now that they were delivered from the “bonds of iniquity”?



BONUS: Can you think of a time when you were “warned of the Lord” and strengthened by Him?


Day 2: Read Mosiah 23:16-28; D&C 20:46-59
4. How did priests and teachers receive authority? What were their duties? Cross-reference D&C 20:46-49.



5. How is our faith and patience sometimes tested? What promise from Mosiah 23:22 gives hope during those times?



6. How did Alma prepare his people to face the Lamanite army?



Day 3: Read Mosiah 23:29-39; Review Mosiah 22:11-16, 19:18-24, 20:1-5
7. Why do you think the Lord allowed Alma and his people to be placed in bondage to the Lamanites when they had repented and were righteous? (See also Mosiah 11:23, 12:1-2.)



8. Who was Amulon and how did he get an army?



9. How did Amulon demonstrate his lack of integrity? What did Alma and Amulon have in common? How were they different?




Day 4: Read Mosiah 24:1-12; 2 Nephi 32:8-9
10. Why did King Laman appoint teachers from among the wicked priests? What did they teach? What did they NOT teach? Why?

11. Why did Amulon persecute Alma? Why did Amulon’s children persecute Alma’s children?



12. What basic right did Amulon attempt to deny Alma and his people? Why do you think this was forbidden? Can it effectively be forbidden? (See also 2 Nephi 32:8-9.)



Day 5: Read Mosiah 24:13-25; 3 Nephi 1:10-15
13. Compare Mosiah 24:13-16 with 3 Nephi 1:10-15. List the similarities.





14. In what ways were Alma’s people strengthened in their adversity? List the blessings.



15. How did faith and patience help Alma’s people?



Day 6: Read Mosiah 25:1-12; footnotes for Mosiah 9:1, 24:25
16. Order these groups according to their relative sizes of population, least to greatest: Lamanites, Nephites, Mulekites, combined Nephites and Mulekites. How much more numerous was the most populous group compared to the second most populous?



17. Name the four distinct groups living in Zarahemla who gathered for General Conference. Use footnotes for Mosiah 9:1 and 24:25 to calculate how long it had been since the people of Zarahemla had been united with the party who left with Zeniff.



18. What were the reactions of the people as Mosiah read aloud the record we now have as Mosiah 9-24? How does reading and pondering the scriptures make you feel?



Day 7: Read Mosiah 25:13-24
19. What was Mosiah’s title among the people of Zarahemla? What was Alma’s role?


20. What kind of correlation program did the church have during this time? What were the people called?


21. What was preached in the church and why?