One of the devine missions of a prophet is to both prune and nourish Isreal and ultimately the world as a whole. This pruning includes both testifying and warning so that eventual distruction may be avoided.
Why a loving God would allow the distruction of some of his children will be discussed later.
On the LDS scripture website, this "pruned" is linked to 2 Kings 17: 13-18.
13Yet the Lord atestified against Israel, and against Judah, by all the bprophets, and by all the cseers, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.
14Notwithstanding they would anot hear, but bhardened their necks, like to the neck of their fathers, that did not cbelieve in the Lord their God.
15And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them; and they followed vanity, and became avain, and went after the heathen that were round about them, concerning whom the Lord had charged them, that they should not do like them.
16And they left all the commandments of the Lord their God, and made them molten images, even two acalves, and made a bgrove, and worshipped all the chost of heaven, and served dBaal.
17And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the afire, and used bdivination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do cevil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.
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