Robin's Great Coloring Pages: Alma and Amulek teach the People of Ammonihah

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Alma the Younger was a man who once had been bent on destroying the Church of Christ. He was a young man at the time and his father was head of the church or High Priest.

Alma the Younger was stopped from his mission to destroy the church by an angel. Further below is my drawing of this event.
Alma's father, the High Priest, had prayed for his son with much faith. The angel even told this to Alma the Younger.

Alma the Younger was repentant and he completely repented and proceeded to tell everyone about his miraculous conversion to Christ. He had come to understand that Jesus Christ paid the price for our sins if we choose to repent.

Later, Alma (Alma the Younger) was chosen or elected to be the political ruler or Cheif Judge of all the Nephites. This was like becoming president or prime minister. Alma the Younger was also made the High Priest of the Church... after his father's death.

From here on, the Book of Mormon calls Alma the Younger just "Alma," so I will do that too.

After several years as Chief Judge Alma became concerned that some members of the Church were falling away due to... among other things, pride. So Alma resigned from his political post... but he kept his position as High Priest.

After resigning, Alma went on a mission. First, he preached to the people in Zarahemla, where he lived. The people there were starting to fall away.

Next Alma went to the city or land of Melek. There the people were NOT falling away but were faithful. Then Alma went to a city called Ammonihah. There were very wicked people in charge there. They abused Alma and threw him out.

Alma was journeying away from Ammonihah and planned on never returning when his angel appeared to him again. This angel told Alma that he was blessed for teaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ (ever since he had seen an angel) ...and he even told Alma that he, the angel, was the same angel that appeared to him and his friends when Alma was rebelling against God. I think it is cool that the same angel was sent to tell Alma that he had done well.

Anyway, Alma was obedient and when the angel told him to go back to Ammonihah Alma took off immediately and went back. He met a man in the city who had been shown Alma in a vision... probably by the same angel.

The man's name was Amulek. He was a wealthy man who had forgotten about God for years apparently. He also repented and after staying for a time at his house Alma went out again to teach the people of Ammonihah. Amulek went with him.

The people were surprised to see that there were now two missionaries testifying of their wickedness. The below drawing is of Amulek teaching the people as Alma watches. There are good people who believed in the crowd but the powerful leaders and most of the people chose to not repent. They were even planning on how they would take away the liberty of the whole Nephite nation.

Alma and Amulek were imprisoned and forced to watch the murder of many of their converts. The wicked people of Ammonihah cast the believing men out and threw the scriptures and the wives and children into a fire.

Amulek asked Alma why they didn't use the power of God to save them but Alma said that the Lord allowed the wickedness so that the judgments that came upon the wicked would be just. The righteous women and children were being welcomed into the Spirit World by their Savior, Jesus Christ.

This is hard and we have to try and see with an eternal perspective.
THIS life is but a small part of our eternal existence. We lived in our premortal life before we came to Earth to get physical bodies...
and we continue to live as spirits in the Spirit World. And we will all be resurrected as well and the righteous will live for eternity in the Celestial Kingdom. The wicked will have to pay the price for their sins because the did not repent. The will always know what they gave up because of their poor choices in mortality.

So here is today's drawing. It was requested by my niece. The man teaching the people is Amulek and Alma is standing with him on the platform. There are wicked leaders in front of Amulek and a righteous family is behind Amulek and receiving his message with joy. I am also including some other drawings of Alma the Elder's conversion by the preaching of the prophet Abinadi, Alma the Elder baptizing in the Waters of Mormon, and the conversion of Alma the Younger. These additional drawings are from previous posts.