Divine Authority; Or, the Question: Was Joseph Smith Sent of God?Pratt, Orson
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Divine Authority; Or, the Question: Was Joseph Smith Sent of God?
Pratt, Orson
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints -- Doctrines; Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
Behold, in the last days, or in the days of the Gentiles; yea, behold
all the nations of the Gentiles, and also the Jews, both those who
shall come upon this land, and those who shall be upon other lands;
yea, even upon all the lands of the earth; behold, they will be drunk
with iniquity, and all manner of abominations; and when that day
shall come, they shall be visited of the Lord of Hosts, with thunder,
and with earthquake, and with a great noise, and with storm and with
tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire; and all the nations
that fight against Zion, and that distress her, shall be as a dream
of a night vision; yea, it shall be unto them, even as unto a hungry
man, which dreameth, and behold he eateth, but he awaketh and his soul
is empty; or like unto a thirsty man, which dreameth, and behold he
drinketh, but he awaketh, and behold he is faint, and his soul hath
appetite: yea, even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that
fight against mount Zion: for behold, all ye that do iniquity, stay
yourselves and wonder, for ye shall cry out, and cry, yea, ye shall
be drunken, but not with wine; ye shall stagger, but not with strong
drink: for behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you, the spirit of
deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your eyes, and ye have rejected
the prophets, and your rulers, and the seers hath he covered because
of your iniquity.
And it shall come to pass, that the Lord God shall bring forth unto
you the words of a book, and they shall be the words of them who have
slumbered. And behold the book shall be sealed: and in the book shall
be a revelation from God, from the beginning of the world to the
ending thereof. Wherefore, because of the things which are sealed up,
the things which are sealed shall not be delivered in the day of the
wickedness and abominations of the people. Wherefore the book shall
be kept from them. But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and
he shall deliver the words of the book, which are the words of those
who have slumbered in the dust; and he shall deliver these words unto
another; but the words which are sealed, he shall not deliver, neither
shall he deliver the book. For the book shall be sealed by the power
of God, and the revelation which was sealed, shall be kept in the
book until the own due time of the Lord, that they may come forth:
for, behold, they reveal all things from the foundation of the world
unto the end thereof. And the day cometh that the words of the book
which were sealed, shall be read upon the house-tops; and they shall
be read by the power of Christ: and all things shall be revealed unto
the children of men which ever have been among the children of men,
and which ever will be, even unto the end of the earth. Wherefore, at
that day when the book shall be delivered unto the man of whom I have
spoken, the book shall be hid from the eyes of the world, that the
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