2 Nephi 26 Conclusion

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Conclusion

Just as the consequences of the war in heaven were severe and decisive, so also are the consequences of that war, which is now transferred to earth, equally severe and decisive. Neither conflict was a practice session; both are real, and both are of such a nature that every person is involved and affected. In neither war could there be a neutral ground. Why is that? Because when a task must be performed by a certain time, and the consequences are crucial, so-called neutrality by an able-bodied person is an aid and advantage to the enemy. Neutrality under such circumstances renders comfort and assistance to the opposite side. Such feigned neutrality is twice measured, not only in the help it gives the opposition, but in the lack of help that could have been given had the person chosen a side. Not to take a stand is in effect taking a stand for the opposition.

Robert J. Matthews, “Two Ways of the World,” Studies in Scripture, Vol 1 p. 150

Elder Carlos E. Asay said: “We, like Israel of old, must rivet our eyes and minds upon…Christ if we hope to gain eternal life….Our looks must not be allowed to wander across the way or to become fixed upon the perishable things of the world. The eye…must be trained to look upward. We must look to God and live!”

In Conference Report, Oct. 1978, 81; or Ensign, Nov. 1978, 54