A Revelation to the church of Christ, given in the presence of six
elders, in Fayette, New-York, September, 1830.
- Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great I AM,
whose arm of mercy hath atoned for your sins;
- Who will gather his people even as a hen gathereth her chickens under
her wings, even as many as will hearken to my voice, and humble themselves
before me, and call upon me in mighty prayer.
- Behold, verily, verily I say unto you, that at this time your sins
are forgiven you; therefore ye receive these things:
- But remember to sin no more, lest perils shall come upon you.
- Verily I say unto you, that ye are chosen out of the world to declare
my gospel with the sound of rejoicing, as with the voice of a trump:
- Lift up your hearts and be glad for I am in your midst, and am your
advocate with the Father; and it is his good will to give you the kingdom;
- And as it is written, Whatsoever ye shall ask in faith, being united
in prayer according to my command, ye shall receive;
- And ye are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect, for
mine elect hear my voice and harden not their hearts:
- Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the Father, that they shall
be gathered in unto one place, upon the face of this land, to prepare
their hearts, and be prepared in all things, against the day when tribulation
and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked:
- For the hour is nigh, and the day soon at hand, when the earth is
ripe:
- And all the proud, and they that do wickedly, shall be as stubble,
and I will burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness shall
not be upon the earth:
- For the hour is nigh, and that which was spoken by mine apostles must
be fulfilled; for as they spoke so shall it come to pass;
- For I will reveal myself from heaven with power and great glory, with
all the hosts thereof, and dwell in righteousness with men on earth
a thousand years, and the wicked shall not stand.
- And again, verily, verily I say unto you, and it hath gone forth in
a firm decree, by the will of the Father, that mine apostles, the twelve
which were with me in my ministry at Jerusalem, shall stand at my right
hand at the day of my coming in a pillar of fire, being clothed with
robes of righteousness, with crowns upon their heads, in glory even
as I am, to judge the whole house of Israel, even as many as have loved
me and kept my commandments, and none else;
- For a trump shall sound both long and loud, even as upon mount Sinai,
and all the earth shall quake, and they shall come forth:
- Yea, even the dead which died in me, to receive a crown of righteousness,
and to be clothed upon, even as I am, to be with me, that we may be
one.
- But behold, I say unto you, that before this great day shall come,
the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall be turned into blood,
and the stars shall fall from heaven;
- And there shall be greater signs in heaven above, and in the earth
beneath; and there shall be weeping and wailing among the hosts of men;
- And there shall be a great hailstorm sent forth to destroy the crops
of the earth:
- And it shall come to pass, because of the wickedness of the world,
that I will take vengeance upon the wicked, for they will not repent:
- For the cup of mine indignation is full; for behold, my blood shall
not cleanse them if they hear me not.
- Wherefore I the Lord God will send forth flies upon the face of the
earth, which shall take hold of the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat
their flesh, and shall cause maggots to come in upon them, and their
tongues shall be stayed that they shall not utter against me, and their
flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets:
- And it shall come to pass, that the beasts of the forest, and the
fowls of the air, shall devour them up:
- And that great and abominable church, which is the whore of all the
earth, shall cast down by devouring fire, according as it was spoken
by the mouth of Ezekiel the prophet, which spoke of these things, which
have not come to pass, but surely must, as I live, for abominations
shall not reign.
- And again, verily, verily I say unto you, that when the thousand years
are ended, and men again begin to deny their God, then will I spare
the earth but for a little season;
- And the end shall come, and the heaven and the earth shall be consumed,
and pass away, and there shall be a new heaven and a new earth;
- For all old things shall pass away, and all things shall become new,
even the heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men
and beasts;
- The fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea, and not one hair,
neither mote, shall be lost, for it is the workmanship of mine hand.
- But behold, verily I say unto you, before the earth shall pass away,
Michael mine archangel, shall sound his trump, and then shall all the
dead awake, for their graves shall be opened, and they shall come forth;
yea, even all;
- And the righteous shall be gathered on my right hand unto eternal
life;
- And the wicked on my left hand will I be ashamed to own before the
Father:
- Wherefore I will say unto them, depart from me ye cursed into everlasting
fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
- And now behold I say unto you, never at any time, have I declared
from mine own mouth, that they should return, for where I am they cannot
come, for they have no power;
- But remember, that all my judgments are not given unto men;
- And as the words have gone forth out of my mouth, even so shall they
be fulfilled, that the first shall be last, and that the last shall
be first in all things, whatsoever I have created by the word of my
power, which is the power of my Spirit;
- For by the power of my Spirit, created I them:
- Yea, all things both spiritual and temporal:
- Firstly spiritual, secondly temporal, which is the beginning of my
work:
- And again, firstly temporal, a[n]d secondly spiritual, which is the
last of my work:
- Speaking unto you, that you may naturally understand, but unto myself
my works have no end, neither beginning; but it is given unto you, that
ye may understand, because ye have asked it of me and are agreed.
- Wherefore, verily I say unto you, that all things unto me are spiritual,
and not at any time have I given unto you a law which was temporal,
neither any man, nor the children of men:
- Neither Adam your father, whom I created; behold I gave unto him that
he should be an agent unto himself;
- And I gave unto him commandment, but no temporal commandment gave
I unto him; for my commandments are spiritual;
- They are not natural, nor temporal, neither carnal nor sensual.
- And it came to pass, that Adam being tempted of the devil, for behold
the devil was before Adam, for he rebelled against me saying, Give me
thine honor, which is my power: and also a third part of the hosts of
heaven turned he away from me because of their agency:
- And they were thrust down, and thus came the devil and his angels;
and behold, there is a place prepared for them from the beginning, which
place is hell:
- And it must needs be that the devil should tempt the children of men,
or they could not be agents unto themselves, for if they never should
have bitter, they could not know the sweet.
- Wherefore, it came to pass, that the devil tempted Adam and he partook
of the forbidden fruit, and transgressed the commandment, wherein he
became subject to the will of the devil, because he yielded unto temptation.
- Wherefore, I the Lord God caused that he should be cast out from the
garden of Eden, from my presence, because of his transgression;
- Wherein he became spiritually dead; which is the first death, even
that same death, which is the last death, which is spiritual, which
shall be pronounced upon the wicked when I shall say, Depart ye cursed.
- But behold I say unto you, that I the Lord God gave unto Adam and
unto his seed, that they should not die as to the temporal death, until
I the Lord God should send forth angels to declare unto them repentance
and redemption, through faith on the name of mine only begotten Son:
- And thus did I the Lord God appoint unto man the days of his probation;
that by his natural death he might be raised in immortality unto eternal
life, even as many as would believe, and they that believe not, unto
eternal damnation, for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual
fall, because they repent not, for they will love darkness rather than
light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom
they list to obey.
- But behold I say unto you, that little children are redeemed from
the foundation of the world, through mine only Begotten:
- Wherefore they cannot sin, for power is not given unto satan to tempt
little children, until they begin to become accountable before me;
- For it is given unto them even as I will, according to mine own pleasure,
that great things may be required at the hands of their fathers.
- And again I say unto you, that whoso having knowledge, have I not
commanded to repent? and he that hath no understanding, it remaineth
in me to do according as it is written. And now, I declare no more unto
you at this time. Amen.
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