Amos 3:7

I woke at 3:00 am with these thoughts in my head about Amos 3:7-

 Amos 3: 7  Surely the Lord God will do nothing, ^abut he ^brevealeth his ^csecret unto his servants the ^dprophets.

footnote  ^abut : JST Amos 3:7 … until …

footnote ^csecret Daniel 2:19 ¶ Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven.

footnote  ^dprophets 

Isaiah 42:9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.

Mosiah 8:16 And Ammon said that a seer is a revelator and a prophet also; and a gift which is greater can no man have, except he should possess the power of God, which no man can; yet a man may have great power given him from God.

17 But a seer can know of things which are past, and also of things which are to come, and by them shall all things be revealed, or, rather, shall secret things be made manifest, and hidden things shall come to light, and things which are not known shall be made known by them, and also things shall be made known by them which otherwise could not be known.

18 Thus God has provided a means that man, through faith, might work mighty miracles; therefore he becometh a great benefit to his fellow beings.

Alma 13:26 And it shall be made known unto just and holy men, by the mouth of angels, at the time of his coming, that the words of our fathers may be fulfilled, according to that which they have spoken concerning him, which was according to the spirit of prophecy which was in them.

1. Why does it seem like our current prophet is not warning about the secret combinations that are destroying our freedom and governments?

2. What if Amos 3:7 is really telling us that God has revealed this "secret" to past prophets, both ancient and modern. With the word "until" instead of "but" maybe this verse is really saying that God reveals all things that he does to his prophets before he does them and we literally walk around with all those "secrets" (which are really things made known before they happen or prophecies) in our pockets via the internet and our smart phones. 

3. Everything that is happening now has already been revealed by past prophets. We aren't really left with an excuse because our current prophet isn't sounding the warning bells. Studying the scriptures is a key tenant of our faith and if we were doing that we would be familiar with these past prophecies that are now being fulfilled.

Also, we call our current prophets "Watchmen on the tower". A watchman warns when the danger is far off and we can't see it. We had those warnings from Pres Benson, McKay and even Hinckley. A watchman doesn't warn when the enemy is at the door or inside already inflicting his carnage. "Warning" does no good when it's upon you. If you heeded the warning then you prepared for what was coming or tried to stop it. When it's upon you, you act according to your preparations. Thus, the prophet doesn't need to be saying anything about what is upon us other than how to endure it. (It is odd that he's not directly commenting on the "war" we are in other than with the pandemic)

4. Elder Bednar said in Oct 2020 Conference about prophetic warnings:

"Some Church members opine that emergency plans and supplies, food storage, and 72-hour kits must not be important anymore because the Brethren have not spoken recently and extensively about these and related topics in general conference. But repeated admonitions to prepare have been proclaimed by leaders of the Church for decades. The consistency of prophetic counsel over time creates a powerful concert of clarity and a warning volume far louder than solo performances can ever produce.

Just as challenging times reveal inadequacies in temporal preparedness, so too the maladies of spiritual casualness and complacency inflict their most detrimental effects during difficult trials. We learn, for example, in the parable of the ten virgins that procrastinating preparation leads to unsuccessful proving. Recall how the five foolish virgins failed to prepare appropriately for the examination given to them on the day of the bridegroom’s coming."

5. We learn from this that we are not justified in being casual or complacent about the perils upon us just because the "Brethren have not spoken recently and extensively" about it. These things have been prophesied and we should know what to do about it, or should have known how to prepare for them

6. Who are the past prophets that have had our day revealed to them? John, Mormon, Moroni, the brother of Jared, Nephi, Daniel, Isaiah, Ezekial. Consider what the Institute manual says about Ezekial:

"After the fall of Jerusalem, Ezekiel no longer spoke of God’s judgments on his contemporaries but of Israel’s redemption in the latter days. It was as though he had done all he could to stave off the destruction of his people, and when that was impossible and they were actually experiencing the suffering that captivity had imposed upon them, he turned their hearts to the future and the source of their ultimate hope in the Lord.

So Saints of the latter days should be most enthusiastic about Ezekiel’s prophecies in chapters 25–48. Of Ezekiel’s twelve, precisely recorded visions, seven were given after the fall of Jerusalem and dealt with such events of the last days as the building of the great Jewish kingdom under a shepherd named David, the gathering of scattered Israel, the unification of all the tribes of Israel, the joining of the Bible and the Book of Mormon, the battle of Armageddon, and the building of a modern temple in Jerusalem. Truly, Ezekiel was a prophet of the Restoration."

7. So what are we to do about the attack on our freedoms? 

Alma 43:45  Nevertheless, the Nephites were inspired by a better cause, for they were not fighting for monarchy nor power but they were fighting for their homes and their liberties, their wives and their children, and their all, yea, for their rites of worship and their church.

46 And they were doing that which they felt was the duty which they owed to their God; for the Lord had said unto them, and also unto their fathers, that: Inasmuch as ye are not guilty of the first offense, neither the second, ye shall not suffer yourselves to be slain by the hands of your enemies.

47 And again, the Lord has said that: Ye shall defend your families even unto bloodshed. Therefore for this cause were the Nephites contending with the Lamanites, to defend themselves, and their families, and their lands, their country, and their rights, and their religion.