More from the End of the Book of Mormon

When people point to all the natural disasters and wars and coups and such happening around the world as proof that we live in end times, I have had my doubts.  Don’t modern communications mean we would be much more aware of such things, so the increase would only be apparent but not real?

Although other scriptures use different language, I was interested that Moroni said the Book of Mormon would come

  in a day when there shall be heard of fires, and tempests, and vapors of smoke in foreign lands;
And there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of wars, and earthquakes in divers places

On the other hand, some things he describes as actually happening, not just being heard about

 the blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret combinations and the works of darkness. . . .
there shall be great pollutions upon the face of the earth; there shall be murders, and robbing, and lying, and deceivings, and whoredoms, and all manner of abominations; when there shall be many who will say, Do this, or do that, and it mattereth not, for the Lord will uphold such at the last day

I’m assuming those pollutions are moral pollutions.  Environmental pollution is not a mental category that existed anciently.

The bit about “Do this, or do that, it mattereth not, for the Lord will uphold such at the last day” is “a hit, a very palpable hit.”  All the people who cry out against judgment, that is what they are in favor of.