“Send Down Justice Upon Those Who Seek Your Destruction”
In speaking of the attribute of justice as that attribute centers in God, Joseph Smith taught: “Without the idea of the existence of the attribute justice in the Deity, men could not have confidence sufficient to place themselves under his guidance and direction, for they would be filled with fear and doubt lest the judge of all the earth would not do right, and thus fear or doubt, existing in the mind, would preclude the possibility of the exercise of faith in him for life and salvation.” Further, in speaking of God’s judgment, the Prophet observed: “It is through the exercise of this attribute that the faithful fit Christ Jesus are delivered out of the hands of those who seek their destruction: for if God were not to come out in swift judgment against the workers of iniquity and the powers of darkness, his saints could not be saved; for it is by judgment that the Lord delivers his saints out of the hands of all their enemies, and those who reject the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.” (Lectures on Faith 4:13, 14.)
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