I love this ❤️ and I need more things that are not written in the Bible for me to teach out

I love that you identify ways God is fighting for you!!

Thanks for always reading. I love and appreciate you!

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Hi Becky!
What a great question. In my limited understanding, I reconcile it as there is a law and a consequence affixed and God fights for those who keep His covenant.

I’m in Deuteronomy now and I read these passages this morning. Deut 7:7,9 7 The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:
9 Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

In Deuteronomy chapter 4, Moses plead, begged, reminded the people to remember God and His covenant. Then, in 4:25-27, Moses prophesied what seems to be the inevitable born out by history:

25 When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:

26 I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land where unto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.

27 And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you.

This applied even as the children of Israel moved into Canaan. Four chapters after the Arnon story, in Numbers 25, 24,000 children of Israel were slain by a plague for worshiping false gods. There are lots of other examples of that during their wandering…eventuating the death of the older generation before they start moving into the promised land.

To me, it’s not a “chosen” race more than a chosen covenant and maybe not even a reconciling more than acknowledging God’s judgment happens as He wills it. To me, Nephi said it best when trying to remind his brothers that they couldn’t make absolute assumption of righteousness/protection based on lineage:
1 Nephi 17:33 And now, do ye suppose that the children of this land, who were in the land of promise, who were driven out by our fathers, do ye suppose that they were righteous? Behold, I say unto you, Nay.

34 Do ye suppose that our fathers would have been more choice than they if they had been righteous? I say unto you, Nay.

35 Behold, the Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the fulness of the wrath of God was upon them; and the Lord did curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea, he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it.

Enoch’s vision of God weeping over mankind powerfully reminds me of God’s love for EVERYONE and that each soul is valued.

Moses 7:28 And it came to pass that the God of heaven looked upon the residue of the people, and he wept; and Enoch bore record of it, saying: How is it that the heavens weep, and shed forth their tears as the rain upon the mountains?

29 And Enoch said unto the Lord: How is it that thou canst weep, seeing thou art holy, and from all eternity to all eternity?

32 The Lord said unto Enoch: Behold these thy brethren; they are the workmanship of mine own hands, and I gave unto them their knowledge, in the day I created them; and in the Garden of Eden, gave I unto man his agency;

33 And unto thy brethren have I said, and also given commandment, that they should love one another, and that they should choose me, their Father; but behold, they are without affection, and they hate their own blood;

34 And the fire of mine indignation is kindled against them; and in my hot displeasure will I send in the floods upon them, for my fierce anger is kindled against them.

37 But behold, their sins shall be upon the heads of their fathers; Satan shall be their father, and misery shall be their doom; and the whole heavens shall weep over them, even all the workmanship of mine hands; wherefore should not the heavens weep, seeing these shall suffer?

There is a law and a consequence affixed. And heaven weeps when any of us suffer.

How do you answer the same question?