As you read the following versus in 2 Nephi 27, keep the concept of addiction in the forefront of your mind.
1 – But behold, in the last days, or in the days of the Gentiles—yea behold all the nations of the Gentiles and also the Jews…they will be drunken with iniquity and all manner of abominations.
Commentary: We are in the last days when people will be drunken with iniquity etc. The prophets have said this generation of people is as wicked as Sodom and Gomorrah. One of the diseases of the modern day is narcissim.
3- And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea it shall be unto them, even as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like unto a thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite.
A notorious disease or curse that creates insatiable appetites is addiction.
A hungry man can hunger for:
- Food eating disorder
- Emotional Intimacy anger or rage addiction
- Physical Intimacy sexual addiction, pornography
- Self esteem narcissism
- Power New Atheism, God is dead
- Belonging gangs
- Affection pornography
- Financial prosperity gambling
- Entertainment gaming
A thirsty man can thirst for:
- Comfort alcohol addiction
- Peace drug addiction
- Calmness nicotine addiction
- Energy caffeine
What else can you think of?
Good find, I never saw it that way in that scripture.
this was our Ahah experience while reading as family.