King Benjamin apparently was a genuine badass. He kept the peace, kept the taxes low, didn't throw people in prison, didn't enslave anyone...dude sounds like a libertarian role model. Seriously, out of all the characters in the Book of Mormon, this guy is one of my favorites.
He's humble too. I like what he says in the beginning of the passage, that he is "just a mortal man like all of us, subject to the infirmities in body and mind." Yet, even though he was still a man, he was "consecrated by my father and suffered by the hand of the Lord to be a ruler." It's pretty obvious that this passage makes me think of the prophet that we have today. Like all of us, Thomas Monson (and whoever is the next prophet, and the next, etc) is a man like the rest of us. The difference is that he's been "consecrated" like King Benjamin has. Chosen to lead the church in these latter days.
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