The Walls Came Down

A man remembers the day he watched two missionaries walk out of a collapsing prison alive. This song is sung in his voice, the voice of someone who was there in the crowd at Ammonihah, and who had raised his own hand against them. Alma and Amulek had come preaching repentance to a wicked city, and the people who believed were cast out or thrown into the fire while the two men were made to watch, unable to stop it. Then Alma and Amulek were bound, imprisoned, and for many days they were beaten, starved, and mocked. The judges and lawyers struck them and jeered, demanding again and again, where is your God now, why won't He deliver you? And the two said nothing, and bore it. Until the last day, when Alma rose and cried out to the Lord for strength according to their faith in Christ, even unto deliverance. The cords that bound them snapped. The earth shook. And the prison walls split and crashed to the ground, crushing the men who had tormented them, while Alma and Amulek walked out of the dust unharmed. The man who sings this was one of those tormentors, and he was spared, and shown a mercy he never deserved, and it turned the rest of his life toward God. He tells it now as an old man, still carrying the wonder of the morning the walls came down. And the walls came down. Alma 14. #BookOfMormon #LDS #ComeFollowMe #LatterDaySaints #Christian #Faith #Scripture