What do we learn from the Book of Mormon about the devil’s use of rage to stir up anger?

Thomas R. Valletta

“The Lord has warned that from the beginning and throughout history, Satan would stir up people’s hearts to anger [see 2 Nephi 28:20; D&C 10:24]. In the Book of Mormon, Laman set a pattern of so murmuring as to stir anger, to stoke rage, and to incite murder [see 1 Ne. 16:37–38]. … In the days of Captain Moroni, the apostate Amalickiah inspired ‘the hearts of the Lamanites against the people of Nephi’ [Alma 48:1]. Amulon and the wicked priests of Noah; Nehor; Korihor; and Zoram the apostate … were agitators who inspired distrust, fueled controversy, and deepened hatreds” (Wood, “Instruments of the Lord’s Peace,” 93).

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