“Behold an Angel of the Lord Appeared Unto Him”

Brant Gardner

As Alma traveled, he was troubled over the people of Ammonihah when an angel appeared—the same angel who had first appeared to him and turned his life around with his earth-shaking (literally as well as figuratively, Mosiah 27:18) first message. The fact that an angel has appeared only twice should not be interpreted to mean that Alma has had no communication from Yahweh in-between these two visitations, but simply that they did not take the form of a heavenly messenger. Unquestionably, Alma’s faithfulness after the first visitation resulted in this second visitation from the same messenger with his comforting message.

Second Witness: Analytical & Contextual Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 4

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