Ye are swift to do iniquity but slow to remember the Lord your God. Ye have seen an angel, and he spake unto you; yea, ye have heard his voice from time to time; and he hath spoken unto you in a still small voice, but ye were past feeling, that ye could not feel his words; wherefore, he has spoken unto you like unto the voice of thunder, which did cause the earth to shake as if it were to divide asunder.
Nephi chastised his brothers for their rebellion against God. He was flabbergasted that they could have had so many blessings, spiritual experiences, and concrete evidence of God, and yet they turned their backs on him. He testified that the Lord had tried to reach them through sweet whisperings, and when that failed, he tried thunder and earthquakes. God did not want to give up on Laman and Lemuel. Neither does he want to give up on us. If we experience God's thunder and earthquakes in our lives, we know two things. First, he has probably been whispering to us for a long time, and we have been ignoring him. Second, he hasn't given up on us yet. When the noise stops, we should listen again for the sweet whisperings.
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