Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
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Gospel Themes: A Treatise on Salient Features of "Mormonism"
Whitney, Orson F. (Orson Ferguson)
Latter Day Saint churches -- Doctrines
"And when Enoch heard the earth mourn, he wept, and cried unto the
Lord, saying: O Lord, wilt thou not have compassion upon the earth?
Wilt thou not bless the children of Noah?
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"And the Lord said unto Enoch: As I live, even so will I come in the
last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfil the oath
which I have made unto you concerning the children of Noah:
"And the day shall come that the earth shall rest, but before that
day the heavens shall be darkened, and a veil of darkness shall cover
the earth; and the heavens shall shake, and also the earth; and great
tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I
preserve;
"And righteousness will I send down out of heaven, and truth will I
send forth out of the earth, to bear testimony of mine Only Begotten;
his resurrection from the dead; yea, and also the resurrection of
all men; and righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep the earth
as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of
the earth, unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my
people may gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my
coming; for there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion,
a New Jerusalem.
"And the Lord said unto Enoch: Then shalt thou and all thy city meet
them there, and we will receive them into our bosom, and they shall see
us; and we will fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other;
"And there shall be mine abode, and it shall be Zion, which shall come
forth out of all the creations which I have made; and for the space of
a thousand years the earth shall rest.
"And it came to pass that Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son of
Man, in the last days, to dwell on the earth in righteousness for the
space of a thousand years."--(Moses 7:18-64.)
A fuller account of Enoch's ministry as prophet, seer, and preacher of
righteousness, may be found in that chapter of the Book of Moses from
which the foregoing paragraphs are taken.
A Terrestrial Ministry.--"Now this Enoch," says the Prophet Joseph,
"God reserved unto himself, that he should not die at that time, and
appointed unto him a ministry unto terrestrial bodies, of whom there
has been but little revealed. He is reserved also unto the presidency
of a dispensation. * * * He appeared unto Jude, as Abel did unto Paul
(Jude 14,15). * * * Paul was also acquainted with this character, and
received instructions from him: "By faith Enoch was translated, that
he should not see death, and was not found, because God had translated
him" (Heb. 11:5).
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"Now the doctrine of translation is a power which belongs to this
Priesthood. There are many things which belong to the powers of the
Priesthood and the keys thereof, that have been kept hid from before
the foundation of the world; they are hid from the wise and prudent to
be revealed in the last times.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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