Awake and Awake

1As I studied the scriptures written by Isaiah concerning our fathers and what should befall our people in the last days, and how Israel should be gathered again, it came to pass in a dream to me, as if in a night vision, yet it was day; and the spirit of the Lord did whisper truths unto me concerning the people of the Lord in the last days, as if it were that time when the Lord first spoke unto Isaiah. Yet, he spoke unto me as if I were there but instructed of the things learned and understood of my people in my day that I might understand more fully the writings of Isaiah for he wrote the things he did as he was instructed by the Lord.

2Wherefore, the spirit of truth saith to all who shall listen and understand, write the things I am about to give unto you that your seed and the seed of your fathers may read and understand, that indeed, how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings of good, that publisheth the salvation; that saith unto Zion, thy God reigheth!

3In that day, thy servant of whom the prophets did speak and of he whom they made mention, shall lift up the voice; with voice together with other servants chosen shall they sing: for they shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall again bring again Zion. Wherefore, ye children that our lost and are looking to find thy fathers, break forth into joy, sing together, ye waste places inhabited formerly by your fathers, mothers, and all your kinfolk: for the Lord hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem and Zion, and all his people. The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth for Zion hath been redeemed by his sons and daughters and she is inhabited again, and all the earth shall see salvation of our God as hath been promised Abraham our father. The Lord saith that by way of my servant and others I shall send shall every word of the Lord be established.

4It shall come to pass in that day, that these servants spoken of shall say: depart ye, depart ye sons and daughters of Zion for the Lord God of Israel hath redeemed thee; go ye out from thence out of all heathen nations and people who are unclean to inhabit Zion, touch no unclean thing; go ye out of the midst of the mother of harlot, be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord, and the vessel of which the spirit speaketh of, is the literal seed that bear the holy priesthood of God, which is most holy for it cometh from God the Father and without this power of godliness, Zion cannot be redeemed. Therefore, the Lord thy God shall lead thee as he hath done unto Israel thy father in the beginning for: he shall organize thee, he give thee laws to live by, he shall give thee light by day and night, he shall nourish thee, and he shall place inside thee a new heart and a circumcised spirit that thou may listen and obey every command that he shall give thee; and he shall say unto thee, thou art my people. And as Moses led thy fathers, a choice prophet of God hath he called from the beginning, in him shall my people trust and listen to; for out of his mouth shall come the law and the spirit of truth unto redemption and preparation; wherefore, the Lord saith, for ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord shall go before you; and the God of Israel shall be your rearward.

5Behold my servant; I the Lord hath given unto him much truth, yea, even eternal truths untold and unheard by man; my servant shall deal prudently with my people for he shall convince my people of the truths contained in the scriptures that I the Lord had written by your fathers, that in this day the truth written, would bring glad tidings unto my people and that by abiding what is contained in my scriptures, peace may be published that Zion may come out of her hiding place.

6For in the work my servant is to perform, he shall be exalted and extolled and be held very high in the eyes of my people; and the fathers of old shall rejoice in him, that all the works they performed in my name shall not be for nought, but shall surely all come to pass and shall all be fulfilled in the earth. Wherefore, the spirit of the Lord shall be upon him that he shall speak unspeakable truths, and as many of the gentiles that shall listen to him, and those of his brethern that believe the gentile shall also believe in his words, they shall be astonished at his wisdom and in his knowledge of the Lord; and his brethren shall marr him more than all the sons of Zion and shall seek to destroy him.

7Nevertheless, the life of my servant is in my hand; wherefore, they shall not destroy him but I shall preserve him in my hands that I might prove unto the gentiles that they have no power over him, for he worketh a work that is the work of the Lord and none can stay that work; and I the Lord God shall heal him, and the strength of the gentile, I shall break and the yoke of bondage shall I break off the neck of my people. In this thing is eternal truth that I God shall heal my people and shall bring them to Zion and shall recover my elect from among the gentile people, that they may serve me and do a work prepared for them from since the beginning, wherein the arm of flesh shall have no power over them, for I the Lord hath spoken and it shall all be fulfilled.

8Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion, put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come unto them uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise and sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion. For thus saith the Lord, ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall be redeemed without money. For thus saith the Lord God, my people went down aforetime into Egypt to sojourn there; and the Assyrian oppressed them without cause.

9For thus saith the Lord God, who hath believed our report? And to who is the arm of the Lord revealed? Wherefore of this mystery is thus revealed that the Choice Seer of the Lord shall grow up before the Lord as a tender plant as a root out of a dry ground: his form is not one of great learning and riches found in the earth; and for he cometh from an ordinary family that when we see him there shall not be any beauty that we should seek him or that we should desire him; but he shall be instructed and learned of the Lord and he shall understand truths hidden of the covenants and promises made to the fathers from the beginning wherein the work of the Lord shall be found in the last days. Wherefore, it behooveth every man who seeks the wisdom and knowledge of God to know of this seer and the work that is enstore for that man, and what every man of God must do to support and uphold that which is godly and holy, that the work of the Lord might go forth in these last days.