After such a marvelous experience with prophecies come to pass, blessings poured out, and faith following the miracles, why did the people fall so quickly into the traps of Satan? Oh...wait...faith following the miracle? This is why faith before the miracles are so important! Roughly 5 yeas had passed and the people were already blinded. If we do not have the faith, we too can be blinded within a very short time.
“How quickly [Satan] moves in even where people have had special spiritual experiences, seeking to get people who have seen signs ‘To disbelieve all which they had heard and seen.’ (3 Nephi 2:1-2.) The adversary has a better chance to persuade us that what we believe is foolish if we worry about looking foolish in front of our fellowmen. We read about the subtleties of the devil and that the adversary persuadeth not one man to do good. (Alma 12:4; Moroni 7:17.)” (Elder Neal A. Maxwell, Things As They Really Are, p. 41)
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