Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings

1I have reflected deeply on the truth that has been revealed, and I seek truth in fulness everyday. Moreover, I have sought much through prayer and fasting the things of God, more particularly as is written concerning the people of the Lord, not as the world seeks, but my action is to bring about a purpose in the plan of God; such desire and action is resultant of an understanding of truths hid that exceeds what the natural man understands. Rather, I no longer seek solitude to be undisturbed of the world, but I am anxious for the still small voice that it should fill my soul to the utmost that this should cause me to ponder upon the things of God daily.

2As I laid pondering last night concerning the restoration of Israel, but more importantly, the mission and responsibility of the remnant, I heard the rushing of wind, and within this wind, even a still small voice from the land of Shem bringing forth the good news and the judgment to fall, even from the land of Nephi that same voice did pierce and arouse my faculty to know of all the preparations completed in that time for this time, even from the place of the gathering of the fathers in the land of the first inheritance uttering the promises and covenants for the which many had performed their work in the earth for their people in their time for this time; moreover, this gathering was in preparation for the final gathering in the land of Adam-Ondi-Ahman, yea, even unto the fulfillment of these promises and covenants unto this day and time that they might become as was promised them of the Lord; yea, many sought and many did not obtain the knowledge requisite in their time, but what they did obtain spiritually for their preparation was put into a spiritual motion in their prayers and oblations to the God of this earth that in righteousness their prayers in great faith might be answered that they looked with steadfastness, looking forward to that heavenly response which might be given in the acceptable time of the Lord. And that time I speak of is this time, even the last dispensation wherein all things shall be brought together all the millennial times affixed and appointed, things of heaven and of earth or earthly actions and heavenly actions to fulfill all things as they should be.

3I am filled with the spirit of the Lord, and I speak and say: Who of all men on this earth at the present time thinks of this thing? Who is engaged in all things, action and thought, to bring about this restoration spoken of? Who has sought his Lord daily, undiminished in action and full obedience, to the things of God that earthly actions are diminished thereby? Who suffered for the truths that the righteous of the dead might have wherewith to return? Who seeketh to break that veil of disbelief in accord with the will of God? Who knoweth the righteousness of God, having acquired the faith requisite, and fears his maker in the righteousness that he shall bring with him the host of heaven? Who seeketh counsel and to be taught from on high, not of or by men in flesh, but by angels and holy men having authority who have achieved sanctified states residing with God? Who speaks and says all men have become unrighteous before God, for they seek not the mysteries of themselves by the power of the Holy Ghost to reach a oneness with God, but are persuaded by the precepts of men? Who speaks of the remnant, the remnant of Joseph, even the seed of Nephi and the work they must perform? Who speaks of the land of the first inheritance and the program of the Lord in the last days? Who testifies of all truth contained in all scriptures, line upon line and precept upon precept, until all is known in full what the report of the Lord is and has been from the beginning before the world wast and unto this time, even unto the end of man in mortality? Who speaks of the times of the gentiles and the closure of the times of the gentiles, and what this means to the remnant and all Israel? Who speaks of the revelations of John the Beloved of the Savior, and what he hast written? Who speaks of Nephi, and all the words of the prophets from the Book of Mormon with force and a testimony bearing down on fables and tales, and endless genealogies that supports not what is written to bring again Israel? Who talks of the literalness of the seed, the people of the first covenant made in heaven of the Father and the Son? Who talks of the literal right of priesthood unto the literal seed passed through Abraham? Who testifies of the bringing to pass the promise and covenant of Abraham in the building up of the New Jerusalem by the literal seed, the seed of Nephi and the gentiles who are numbered with them? Who talks of the present day falling away as prophesied by the prophets concerning the gentile church, even of them which the Christ hast spoken much concerning them? Who hast written much concerning the literal gathering of Israel upon the land of promise? Who hast written concerning the baptism for the righteous dead, who have died in Christ, in other times for the which this baptism is instituted from before the foundation of this world, which cements all times of the earth together? Who speaks of a baptism for the living by one who has authority and power of God, which power and authority, is sealed upon that man by the Holy Spirit of Promise and is thus ordained to administer the same in this life? Who says that baptism in life or baptism for the dead is the gateway into the celestial kingdom, if done, in accord with heavenly laws instituted for such by God unto man, which baptism must be done with the approval of God - sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise? Who speaks of the repository of God? Who speaks of the Plates of Brass, a record kept and written by our father Joseph in Egypt? Who speaks of the bringing forth of the Ark and the Covenant unto this land? Who speaks and bears a witness of the location of Adam-Ondi-Ahman, which is not in Independence, Missouri? Who speaks of the dedication and consecrations of the Lord for the day to come and unto what end these dedications and consecrations are done? Who speaks of Helam? Who speaks of the Hill Shemlon and its importance? Who speaks of the burial of the fathers and its location? Who speaks of the Levitical order and duty as spoken of the Savior? Who speaks concerning the Levitical Priesthood and the Aaronic Priesthood having separate duties and responsibilities? Who speaks of the One Mighty and Strong? Who speaks of Elijah revealing the Higher Priesthood again unto the unfolding of promises and covenants for the covenant people of the Lord in the last days? And many more truths hid can be brought to light by him as is written.

4The heavens and the earth cannot contain themselves, but their bounds are set and they must act within those bounds, until all things are done on earth as in heaven, whether there be one God or many gods, those things shall be made known, for the New Jerusalem is the city of the Gods, for herein are all things done and accomplished by mortal man in the name of Jesus Christ for these things shall come in the time appointed. Furthermore, it is a commandment of the Father that the remnant remaining in the last days must come to a knowledge of the fathers, and they must repent of their sins and iniquities, and believe in Jesus Christ, that he is the Son of God, and that he was slain on the cross by the Jews in old Jerusalem, and by the power of the Father he hath risen again, whereby he gained victory over the grave; and in him is the sting of death swallowed up; and he bringeth forth the resurrection of the just and the unjust wherein he bringeth to pass the redemption of his covenant people and the world; and the just of whom I have spoken in this writing are the righteous men of God who shall at that day dwell in the presence of God in his kingdom, and this kingdom shall be prepared that it may come forth, beginning in the land of the first inheritance, and these are they that shall sing with the choirs above unto the Father, and unto the Son, and unto the Holy Ghost, which are one God, in a state of happiness that hath no end in the city of the New Jerusalem forever and forever.

5Behold, this is written unto the remnant of Joseph for the intent that ye may believe that; and if ye believe that ye will believe this also; and because of what the Lord has caused to be written by your fathers and what I have written; and if ye believe this thing ye will know concerning your fathers, and also the marvelous works of the Lord wrought among them, which in this time is beneficial unto you! Then ye will also know that ye are the remnant seed of Jacob, and many of you are the remnant of Joseph, and many great ones are of the remnant of Nephi, therefore, ye are numbered among the people of the first covenant. Notwithstanding this great blessing given of the Father unto you, it must be that ye must be baptized, first with water, then with fire and with the Holy Ghost, then ye must follow the example of the Savior Jesus Christ unto full sanctification unto a newness of life, keeping all his commandments unto the end of mortality, then it shall be well with you. Know that if ye are of the house of Israel, there is none other way prepared for salvation but what is written in holy writ.

6Wherefore, know and understand: For none can have power to bring these things forth unto light save it shall be given him of God; for in accord with heavenly requirements found in the Book of Law, God wills that it shall be done with an eye single to his glory, or the welfare of the ancient and long dispersed covenant people of the Lord. And blessed shall be he that shall bring this thing to light; for it shall be brought out of darkness unto light, according to the word of God; yea it shall be brought out of the earth, and it shall shine forth out of darkness, and come unto the knowledge of the people; and it shall be done by the power of God.

7O' Lord my God of heaven and earth, O' my Father, which begottesth Thou me; I am troubled with the sinful state of man, and all that thou hast given unto the gentile, for their temporary grace which cometh of thee to them, which grace they have squandered and buried unto themselves, and they now think that heaven is shut and all miracles that cometh of thee is ended in them. They reel to and fro in their lands and in all the earth recounting their genealogies, thinking that their fathers were given the Book of Mormon, and now they are chosen above all the people of the earth. Yet, in thy tenderness towards us because of our fathers, thou didst say that the mercy of Abraham should return unto us in a time acceptable, and that the mourning of our mother Rebekah should cease. O' then Father, hear my prayer unto thee and know my heart and the desires I have from within to do thy will; but I am alone! The world seeks their own and not thine will for the which all this has been done from since the beginning unto my time; wherefore, I pray that it might begin in firmness with an undaunting course of righteousness that my fathers may return and our hearts may return unto them. I pray that Elijah may come again to give of his keys that Israel may be gathered with the power of thy priesthood unto the land that thou hast prepared. I pray that thou mayest accept of my offering in such an effort of righteousness that thy work may no longer be stayed. I know it mattereth not what the gentile may think and unto what theology he may attend, for in thee, O' my Father, is all truth found and of these things are they written in holy writ by my fathers to us. For thy blessing unto us is that we pray to thee and ask in sincerity of our hearts to know and to understand of these things, and by the power which cometh of thee through the Holy Ghost shall we know the truth of all things. I know thou liesth not for thy declarations have all been fulfilled and shall yet be fulfilled unto the end of all thy works. Father in Heaven, I shake from within and I seek thy presence in all humility that I might acquire peace and a firmness, even a greater understanding and a greater knowledge of thy works, I pray in thy Son's name, Amen.

8Thus saith the Lord God Omnipotent, the God of Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Joseph: Be ye therefore firm in all your actions before me that all things be done in accord with what is written in the Book of Law; for thus I say unto you: faith is the assurance in truths heavenly with a belief that these truths assured shall be fulfilled, whereby, man believes and with an unwavering hope, hope of Israel is born in that man, which hope directs that man unto total obedience to my laws, which obedience is achieved unto great knowledge and understanding, wherein man comes to know and he comes to understand that the pure love of Christ cements his faith, and many before you thereby, could not be withheld from without the veil created by doubt and sin. Wherefore, know and understand that the pure gospel of Christ did not come unto you in word only, but also in power which cometh of the Father, and in the Holy Ghost, and in much assurance; and ye know what manner of men were thy fathers before God for your sakes. I say unto you, the Father saith: It is this journey which leadeth down the narrow path that imparts to man grace from the Savior, who is my Son, unto this man of righteousness; after all he can do unto salvation within bounds of my laws which are contained in the Book of Law; and this path which leadeth to eternal life is narrow and straight; the gate keeper into this narrow path is my Son, even the Christ. And no man enters this gate unto a newness of life unless it is sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise, which spirit knoweth all things and not a thing can be hid from him. These are they of whom I have said in other times: they are they who receive the testimony of Christ, and believe on his name and were baptized after the manner of his burial, being buried in the water after his name, and this according to the commandment he has given, that they might be cleansed of all iniquity - that by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and they receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who is ordained and sealed unto this power, and who overcome by faith this world and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise, which the Father sheds upon those who are just and true. They are they who are the church of the Firstborn.

9Wherefore, I say unto you, in this state of perfection and sanctification by the laws of God, laws committed by God to man, shall the grace of the Lord cement man's righteous actions on earth to heavenly actions, and by the love of Christ is the redemptive power of the Son shed upon man and he is brought back into his presence. Therefore, doubt not the importance of being upright before God and the seeking of truth unto great knowledge and understanding; it is only by such actions, as those before you have accomplished that the Son shall appear to them in the land of the first inheritance to bring about the salvation of those who have achieved a celestial condition. There he shall more perfectly give of his glory unto those found in the land that all shall prepare to meet their heavenly parents, for this is the crowning for the which all have tirelessly worked in their refinement and purification as spoken of. Wherefore, despises not the truth but embrace it with all thine heart, mind, and strength to do righteousness and to perform my will in accord with what I have caused to be written.

10For thus saith the Lord - I, the Lord, am merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, and delight to honor those who serve me in righteousness and in truth unto the end; it is for this purpose I created the earth and placed man thereon. Great shall be their reward and eternal shall be their glory, and it is unto this very purpose all promises and covenants, and commitments are made in my name.

11And to them that fear me in righteousness will I reveal all mysteries; yea all the hidden mysteries of my kingdom from days of old, and for ages to come, will I make known unto them the good pleasure of my will concerning all things pertaining to my kingdom. Yea, even the wonders of eternity shall they know, and things to come will I show them, even the things of many generations of my righteousness in my people. And their wisdom shall be great, and their understanding reach to the heaven for their wisdom cometh to them from heaven; and before them the wisdom of the wise among men of earth shall perish, for what I speak shall not perish but shall endure unto the end of man, and the understanding of the prudent among the gentiles shall come to naught because it is not of me. For by my spirit will I enlighten them, and by my power will I make known unto them the secrets of my will - yea, even those things eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor yet entered into the heart of man.

12I command you to know my law as is found in the Book of Law; yea, which laws from my Book is contained in the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants, and many other scriptures I have given unto man; and it is this same law that Enoch, your father, came to comprehend that pure light and he embraced that pure light with fulness, likewise his people, they were thereby perfected and sanctified by the same. It is because of this thing that God the Father extended the grace of his Son, though his Son was not yet in flesh among men; and before this time, wherefore, my Father did command I tell thee: I had not yet extended a full salvation, a redemption through my Son to a people so pure like the people of Enoch. But because of the law irrevocably decreed before the foundation of this world was set in heaven unto the earth upon which thou standest, I commanded a redemption of a preparatory condition that fell upon many who were given this redemption in their pre-mortal existence, and unto them, by covenant and ordination, they were given the High Priesthood by order after my Son to be saviors on mount Zion. These are my people with whom my Father made the first covenant made in heaven; for that reason they are called the children of the first covenant. Enoch abided this ordination unto a people; howbeit, I am a God of promise, therefore, I took them unto my abode until the dispensation of the fulness of times be ushered in.

13Now I speak unto you of things as they were, as they are, and as they will be unto you! When Enoch established the city of Enoch with a pure people before me, I brought them back into my presence because, then, there was not this New Jerusalem yet builded of a pure people. Therefore, I speak this truth unto you saying: In a time acceptable, as it is written, shall the city of Enoch descend out of heaven to be among man again to that New City that shall be builded wherein all saintly and pure men of God shall dwell with the Father and the Son, yea, even my Mother shall be thy Mother that the children of the church of the Firstborn shall be established unto everlasting life.

14And it shall be an everlasting life, for herein they shall be found living with their Heavenly Parents, and even their Elder Brother, the Firstborn of all living, in a condition of life eternal, enjoying everlasting life of a fulness of joy and eternal felicity, for for this intent are men created and endowed with godhood. For indeed, this is life eternal to know the only true God that has been sent of God, to know him is to know God the Father. Even so, Amen and Amen.

15Before I proceed more with what I am writing, the spirit of the Lord is directing me to write somewhat concerning what I have just written that those who shall read what I am writing shall be edified by what is written that they might know that God reveals mysteries to them that are pure before him and to them who seek to establish the righteousness of God unto the fulfillment of promises and covenants. Now therefore, the natural man cannot achieve this state of purity unless he yields himself unto God in all things, which action is not in opposition to God's holy will, but indeed, it is his will unto a newness of action and commitment that assures God of his commitment. A rutted commitment is likened unto a sense of reliance on a falsehood that appears to be true but is still a lie, and an untruth is spurned and woven by ignorance that such reliance will be accepted of God or that the Lord will understand, or that being a mere good person of this world is the same as one who is righteous before God because he lives the laws as given of God with no false pretense, in other words, perversion of the doctrines of God or any such acts of perverting the doctrine of Christ to benefit self is not accepted of God.

16The spirit of the Lord directs me by command that I expound more concerning this thing as it pertained to Israel in the time of Jeremiah, for this cause are things written, more specifically that those who receive a fulness of truth might not do as they did; wherefore, from ancient times did the Lord command that we unfold the mysteries that we might have wherewith to know and understand, and if we do this thing, then we comprehend the Lord and his ways. It must be understood that God does not give unto man commandments for the sake of commanding for naught, but all things are done in the name of God to fulfill commitments, whether those commitments are heavenly or earthly it is the same. Then it means that few there be that find out his ways or few be that shall comprehend his mysteries unto great knowledge or unto great understanding, which means that all things written in holy writ is for the benefit of man to come to know God.

17In the book of Lamentations the land of Zion is left desolate, and to the few who attempt to understand the scriptures, they are lost at the meaning conveyed in scripture, but to the many it matters not, for they see not the value for they see not or know not God. It reads in Lamentation as follows: How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow is she, who was great among the nations! All her gates are desolate…. Her children have gone into captivity. This reflection of the judgment that fell on Israel is a finality of warnings by God's prophets based on a condition of obedience to his laws that their days may be prolonged, and that the blessings of God should be upon them. This eternal condition of which I am writing is life eternal; such life was to be received when Israel should live all the laws committed by God to Israel without falsehood or shortcomings. It also means that conditions were placed on Israel to live upon the land of promise given to them of God, which land was conditioned based on celestial laws, even that of typifying God in the lives of Israel.

18But the land of Zion is laid desolate. The year is 586 BC, the city is Jerusalem, and the kingdom is Judah, and the prophet calling repentance and obedience is Yirmayahu (Jeremiah); there in the aftermath of destruction, death, and bondage, he wept looking on the city, he wept for the land, and he wept for the people. For so long he had called repentance to a people, warning them and telling them of what was to happen, and Israel did not listen. The whole of Judah was desolate; the fields were abandoned, the men, women and children were taken captive and taken without regard into exile into the land of the Babylonians; and as the scriptures saith: By the rivers of Babylon, we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying: sing us one of the songs of Zion. How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land?

19[Thus in my understanding concerning my people, the Dine(the Navajos), they likewise were taken into bondage along the Rio Pecos, and there they sang their songs and said their prayers, not knowing if they would live or return to the land of the Navajos. Such is a repeat of warnings and judgments of God upon a people; and in Fort Sumner, Bosque Redondo, the people (Dine) did cry to the Lord with songs, prayers and offerings that was passed down from the fathers.]

20(Now therefore, be it known and understood that some years before the Babylonian exile of Israel, our father Lehi did speak with Jeremiah concerning this captivity and bondage of Israel for he heard the warnings and he was acquainted with Jeremiah. Wherefore, understanding this bondage and exile spoken of for Israel not having kept the commandments of God on a land given to them and consecrated to bring forth a Zion, Lehi pleaded with God that his family not go into exile. Wherefore, Jeremiah also petitioned God and God responded, and Lehi led his family out of Jerusalem, embarking on a journey to the Land of Promise in accord with what is written in holy writ, that the seed shall one day return to fulfill obligations and commitment to God. Thus, the blessing of Joseph by his father Jacob should be fulfilled. Nevertheless, because of the destruction of Jerusalem, the Lord kept his commitments and saved a remnant by the election of grace, looking distantly in time to another time for a work to be performed in his name by them. Notwithstanding, the grace shed upon Lehi and his family, the Nephites did not escape destruction in the land of promise, and the Navajos did not escape the destruction and the smiting by the gentiles. But the prophesies were fulfilled.)

21It reads in Jeremiah 25: 4-11: The Lord has sent to you all his servants the prophets … but you have not listened or inclined your ears to hear. They said: Repent now everyone of his evil way and his evil doings, and dwell in the land that the Lord has given to you and your fathers forever and ever …. Therefore, thus saith the Lord of hosts: Because you have not heard my words … this whole land shall be a desolation and an astonishment and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

22Now as is written in holy writ, at the end of the appointed time of exile and captivity, in the year 539 BC the Babylonian Empire fell to another kingdom, the Empire of Persia, and the Persians were led by Cyrus the King who would issue a decree granting the Jewish nation to return and rebuild the land of Judah, even the rebuilding of the House of the Lord. The words of the prophets are clear and precise, and the judgments of God a result of warnings and laws of obedience; these laws are celestial laws with consequences clearly expressed and conveyed to Israel. The covenants pertaining to these laws were clearly identified and set in stone before all of Israel passed through the Jordan river, which is a typifying of the baptism required to enter in, and the walking through of the Red Sea is a typifying of the preparatory, the beginning of man's journey; then they who know and understand the pure gospel of Christ must understand that the entering in requires laws of a celestial nature, and Israel that day made a covenant with God, which covenant was everlasting because God is everlasting. As I ponder this truth, I am moved to know of these things and unto what purpose are laws of God set, even this day with Israel written on stone their covenant, even like unto the commandments of God by Moses which eventually was hid and diminished in effectiveness, even those written on plates of Brass that the light coming forth might not be dimmed by time, or all records that shall speak forth out of the earth, the repository of God time and time again for man to see, understand, and to incline his ear to God.

23I am given to ask: Why the seventy years of captivity and exile? Such are questions of those who seek to know the mysteries as they pertain to God's working with man, but important are men who are righteous before him in all inward and outward actions of pureness and strictness of obedience. This is not the only question that should be raised for an answer, but there are many more questions, but questions raised to God is only for those who seek the mysteries of God as is written in holy writ. Wherefore, I raise this question to know of the celestial requirements pertaining to the land of the first inheritance and what God shall require. Man cannot enter into a land consecrated to God in a sinful and an impure state, having before him idols of the world to distract and to lure him away from God; truly the requirements of God to enter in to entreat God is an act of fully understanding the nature of God and his laws.

24All scriptures written by them of old and kept and recorded for future posterity are written in repetitiveness that man might come to understand the importance of what is written, but oftimes, what is written is difficult to comprehend; therefore a journey like Nephi described in scripture to understand Isaiah is imperative and requisite, otherwise, by our own actions of blindness, we shall ultimately lack spiritual capacity to understand by the Holy Ghost's power of magnification unto great understanding. What manner of man would do this thing, searching these mysteries to understand while the world's distractions consumes all our time? And unto what end is our purpose to comprehend such things, if the world does not do the same? Who during the time of the gentiles spoke of this thing?

25In the Second Book of Chronicles 36: 15-21, this repetitive recordation is exemplified and more detail is provided concerning the Jewish exile and desolation prophetically given to Israel: And the Lord God of their fathers sent warnings to them by his messengers …. But they mocked the messengers of God, despised his words, and scoffed at his prophets, until the wrath of the Lord arose against his people, till there was no remedy. Therefore he brought against them the king of Chaldeans …. They burned the house of God, broke the walls of Jerusalem, burned all its palaces with fire…. As what is written in holy writ bears witness, it speaks of all those who are carried into captivity and away far into exile, that they did not see or hear of Jerusalem again. The writings continues and speaks saying: And those who escaped from the sword he carried away to Babylon, where they became servants to him and his sons until the rule of the kingdom of Persia, to fulfill the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah, until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths. As long as she lay desolate she kept Sabbath, to fulfill seventy years that Israel did not keep the Sabbaths.

26Therefore, this act of judgment fell upon the Nephites many times by the Lord as he brought the Lamanites against them to bring them back to remembrance. The Nephites also lived the law of Moses, and even into Fourth Nephi, it is recorded that the people lived in commonality, having neither rich or poor among them, keeping the commandments until because of sin and pride all was forgotten again, and destruction soon followed.

27Now then understand! The Lord of host looketh on the people, his holy house, and the land of inheritance or land of promise; and unto his people he giveth laws to be obeyed, from his house comes the law of perfection and sanctification to keep his name holy, and wherefore, it is written in holy writ, from the time of Moses even to the time of Malachi, they labored upon their lands keeping all holiness before them unto the God of Israel, and on the Sabbath day all things were given unto the Lord. Israel was also commanded to do likewise every seven years in holiness to the Lord certain oblations, prayers, and outwardly actions were done that inward actions might be achieved, and this included the manner of stewarding the land of Israel. In this the Lord's judgment and wrath, Israel was to keep the cycle every seven years, the Sabbath years. Wherefore, as is written for seventy Sabbath years Israel did not keep the law and in punishment, God removed them off the land of promise that the land might have its Sabbath years; now, I am not going to explain or expound on the requirements; suffice it to say, the eternal commitments made with God by Israel to God was broken, this commandment created the law of consecration and an order that unites the people, a common existence wherein God is the rightful owner and he calls stewards that account for what they have done with what they have been given.

28This accounting and action was no different in the time of Joseph Smith as he sought diligently to bring about a Zion people among the gentiles, rather the gentiles fled from that requirement to what it is today, out of Jackson County to the Intermountain West (all is contained in the Doctrine and Covenants Section 124); without this vital connection to God, I testify that the land of the first inheritance cannot be redeemed or established, neither can the New Jerusalem be built up in the name of God. But if one takes the opportunity to read and study the scriptures, this spiritual obedience of a people so righteous is not without what is written, for it is very clear that this is God's way of preparing a people to live his celestial law. In the present day, the gentile church lives the laws of the land and renders to the land that which is not God's, for what is God's is man's.

29In the Book of Leviticus 26: 31-35, a record kept by the Levites concerning the laws of God as it pertains to the perfecting and sanctification of the people, the land and the house of the Lord it states: I will lay your cities waste and bring your sanctuaries to desolation …. I will bring the land to desolation … your land shall be desolate and your cities waste. Then the land shall enjoy its Sabbaths as long as it lies desolate and you are in your enemies' land; then the land shall rest and enjoy its Sabbaths. As long as it lies desolate it shall rest - for the time it did not rest on your Sabbaths when ye dwell in it. This law was key to the Nephite and Jareditic judgments on the land of promise, and indeed, it is written by Nephi of old and his descendant, Third and Fourth Nephi concerning the pride of the Nephite nation and the eventual falling away from the truth through classes and man made nobility a prime factor in the creation of spurned fables and tales and endless genealogies. In like manner this disobedience destroyed the works of the Twelve Apostles of the Lord among the Jewish people and among the gentile proselytes, and even among the latter-day gentiles it has been the same; in this truth of the falling away is the times of the gentiles fulfilled. Wherefore, the gentile people, both in the restored church and those gentiles upon the land of promise, for the which many of the gentile founding fathers do claim in the name of God their establishment, but they have forgotten their declarations.

30Yea, I speak of my people concerning the land of the first inheritance; this land has now laid desolate and resting for over seventy-five years. All farming, grazing, and the development of lands have ceased in productivity. Old homesteads have gone back to the earth and the children have all left for the cities of the gentiles; and the children have not connection to the earth, much less the land of the first inheritance because truth pertaining to such is all but diluted and tainted with gentile theology.

31Then the Lord shall bring forth his program as is written in holy writ for he is the same, yesterday and forever. It is important for the salvation of man to learn and come to understand these truths, for without knowledge; then how can man prepare himself properly, by advancing his own agenda or diluting God's laws, or by justifying his action based on misinterpretation of God's holy word?

32Wherefore, the spirit of the Lord commands me now to speak not mistakenly the mystery pertaining to this thing I am writing. God covenants with man by an everlasting covenant not as man may agree with another man, nonetheless, God makes a covenant with his children of the first covenant in this manner that celestial order might be found in the earth. Accordingly, as is written in holy writ it speaks of this thing that everything that Israel is given, the land and all its blessings, was completely dependent upon the covenant of God which caused a relationship with God; even as it was ordered in the beginning before the world wast.

33Therefore, from what is written in the scriptures, it is understood that the Sabbath was not only a day of the week but also a year, and within that time of a year certain things were done in preparing a people to build up Zion, and this law has been a standing law from since the beginning for a people of God. In the Lord's order all things belongs to the Lord and man is made a steward; the gentiles believe they owned all things (property, lands, businesses, real estates, investments, and even the copy right to the holy scriptures), and there is definitely a division among the gentile people in all things, which has resulted in the lack of obtaining spiritual truths to a major degree pertaining to the celestial order. As a consequence, heaven is shut and the Holy Ghost is not generous with the mysteries and truths; and the gentile church has strayed from the original restored church and the intent for the which it was restored for the times of the gentiles. Nevertheless, despite knowing what the gentiles would do, in the graciousness of God, Kirtland was established and it failed, and Joseph Smith petitioned again and Nauvoo was established and eventually it failed because the people would not live the laws pertaining to the land; and in finality, the gentiles went into the Intermountain West there to live, living less than partially what was revealed regarding the establishment of a Zion community.

34Wherefore, as it is written in the Book of Leviticus 25: 1-4, every seventh day was the Sabbath day and every seventh year was the Sabbath year, both day and year were the Lord's and certain acts by the law was required of a people to maintain the covenant made with God: The Lord spoke with Moses on Mount Sinai, saying: Speak to the children of Israel and say to them: When ye come to the land which I give to you, then the land shall keep a Sabbath to the Lord. Six years shall you sow your field, and six years you shall prune your vineyards, and gather its fruits; but in the seventh year there shall be a Sabbath of solemn rest for the land, a Sabbath to the Lord. This is a holy year specifically devoted to the Lord in all things and there was no working of the land like unto the previous six years wherein there was no plowing and planting, all gathering and harvesting of the fields ceased in the seventh year. This command is reiterated in Exodus 23, a preparation of the same by Moses from God to the children of Israel in verses 10-11. And for this intent was it mandated in Exodus 23:11: …that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave, the beast of the field may eat. In like manner you shall do with your vineyard and your olive grove, as if the land had no owner but the Lord and all his people.

35This religious ideology is radical in application to many, even in the return of Israel after the seventy years, and even more obvious in the modern times of Israel, the high priests or the rabbis attempted to circumvent the directness of the application of this law by a more radical and diluted requirement. One idea was based on the idea that this law should only be applied primarily to Jew-owned lands, so in the year of the Sabbath Jews would convey their lands to non-Jews on a condition precedent and they would continue to work their lands. The selling would be conditioned on reversion of the land after the Sabbath year is complete. All such actions by rabbis were to cancel the law, and these form among many became un-typifying or devised to pollute and dilute God's hand in his people. In the gentile church Jacob writes concerning the pollution in the gentile church in the Book of Jacob; herein is truth revealed which includes the gentile belief that boys reaching the age of 18 are automatically given the Melchizedec Priesthood (with our righteous fathers many waited until they were over 200 years old to receive the same), boys at the age of 12 are likewise given the Aaronic Priesthood (Paul says those who receive this calling and priesthood must be righteous men having but one wife), returned missionaries with their brides are married in the temple for time and all eternity nullifying the Doctrines and Covenants Sections 132 (these are they who have their calling and election made sure and all action previous sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise) in full and other scripture, and there is a the belief that the Prophet, Seer and Revelator personally knows Christ (Christ in Third Nephi implicitly states the gentile shall never see him, hear his voice, or that of touching him), and much more. The gentile church did away in the beginning of their time with laws pertaining to the everlasting covenant of commonality among the people of God which is always revealed to develop a Zion people, the gentilic falling away has brought to pass the fulfillment of the times of the Gentiles and the cursing shall soon follow in great judgment.

36There is no difference on such application of perversions by the gentiles after the time of Joseph Smith to the present day among the gentile church the falling away spoken of that brings destruction; but a pure people acknowledge that God is the source of all blessings, spiritual and physical alike unto his people. But when church leaders remove God from his own law(s), the removal of blessings conditioned by covenant, the dilutions soon brings judgment and wrath, Godly judgments soon follows. Thus, God in his great condescension to man, deals with this human flaw, the repeated tendency of man to divorce the blessings of eternal life from the Lord who gives those blessings base on obedience which brings about purification and sanctification among a people, his people. Knowing this tendency, God has prepared a seventh millennia of rest, which shall soon come after an earthly destruction of man, and that for one thousand years righteous men of God shall do the work of the Lord, cementing all six thousand years previous, and in the blessing to Enoch, the earth shall rest.

37I shall now expound my understanding by the power of revelation concerning the passage of scripture that this truth found in the record of the Nephites shall come forth from out of the earth, out of the ground, and it shall whisper like unto a familiar spirit unto the confounding of falsehood and perversion of the original truth that came forth from the records of the Jews, which truth the Lord brought forth to the gentile nations, and such perversion shall destroy the gentile nations. Behold, I speak in plainness that I am not misunderstood, that the Book of Mormon did whisper out of the earth, but unto this typifying is this truth not written, but has been misconstrued by the gentile for lack of understanding the truth in God concerning what hath been written.

38As a testimony and as a witness of truth, I write that our father Adam directed Enoch to find a repository for the records of God, records in the hands of Enoch and those which should come of posterity in days to come unto the end of man in mortality. Enoch did obey his father in all things and a repository was prepared in the name of God the Father, and this repository was sealed unto the Father unto the end of time. Certain righteous men of God, holy men, prophets and seers, were given the power and authority to enter therein to continue this work of recordation of all the works of God among men, these were men of the literal seed, they having been ordained to this calling from before the foundation of this world. These are men of the first covenant, for in the covenant itself, it is written concerning this holy obligation God committed unto man in flesh, and unto none else(gentile or Canaanite) is this covenant made. This repository is the same of which Third Nephi is commanded by the Savior to bring forth the records kept that he would looked upon them, for I speak and testify that this very Savior, is that same Jesus Christ and he did stand in the repository, and there by his command, which came of the Father, did Nephi write into the records what is written in Third Nephi at his command.

39Moroni by command of his father Mormon did visit this very site(repository) on many occasions that the final words he wrote might be concise with what is written by them of old, even that the posterity of First Nephi might find it by the spirit of prophecy and great revelations that the things contained and stored might be given to a pure people. Wherefore, be it known and that it may be comprehended that a full salvation and restoration may come, a voice has spoken many times from within and out of the earth and has whispered out of the dust to righteous men of God, yea, holy men and saintly men, who have thus been called, even in these days for God changeth not and his paths do not turn to the left hand and then to the right hand, but his course is one eternal round. Yea, by the power of the Holy Ghost which is in me, I bear a solemn witness of the same, and I say unto all who shall read this, that the voice I have heard is that voice from within the earth, even that same voice that hast whispered through the ages unto righteous men of God.

40This is done, that a righteous people might hear and feel in their hearts a familiar spirit, even a voice calling to prepare a people of God as is prophesied; for the spirit saith: In the land of the everlasting hills shall a voice call, even a familiar spirit, for this voice calleth from the beginning, even before man was in mortality, for all these things are written in the Book of Law.

41Thus, I testify that this repository is the very same place where Ether hid by day and he did view the destruction among the Jaredite nation by night in ancient times for Ether did write the history, having before him all the records which spake of his time looking expansively into this my time of what would befall the literal seed. Notwithstanding the destruction of his people, he did write concerning the building up of the New Jerusalem on the land of promise by the seed of Joseph, which writings was placed so obviously in the book of Ether by the abridgement of Moroni, the last Nephite prophet. God became very angry with the Jaredite nation that he caused them to leave this land unto the hill Ramah where they were utterly destroyed from off the face of the earth; and the Nephites were likewise destroyed on that same hill called Cumorah. Even, the gentile nation was not empowered by God to dwell upon the land of the first inheritance because it was not known unto them; they were diligent in their first work of colonization to establish settlements all around the land of the first inheritance based on the teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. But that premature work only fulfilled other promises made of God to his people. But the gentile work had an end; their work was not to fulfill the promises and covenants of the Lord, but through their efforts, God should cause a Moses to be raised by him. And this is in accord with what is written in holy writ.

42Then Ether likewise testified and bore a solemn witness of the iniquity of the Jaredite nation wherewith they were utterly destroyed of God, and that another people did come from the Jerusalem of old to inherit the land of promise, even this land of the first inheritance. Ether sealed up the records of his people, leaving a blessing and a message to Moroni, the last witness of the Nephite nation, he that completed a record witness of God and the Nephite destruction, blessed and left a consecration that this record should be handed down to a literal descendant of First Nephi, who would be instructed from on high that the work might commence again in the last days. Yea, I do testify that the Nephites were destroyed and the gentile nations came upon the land of promise to possess it, and another cleansing, a final cleansing shall surely come as is written.

43Therefore, I speak and say, this is the familiar spirit, a voice coming out of the dust, whispering eternal truths to them who seek purity and righteousness before God. The voice coming forth out of Cumorah is the typifying of this truth, it is a truth supporting all that is written specific to this time, truth to cause one to seek all truth and to follow this voice which literally comes from God.

44I speak by the power of the Holy Ghost which is in me that by revelation from God, I do testify that the Plates of Brass speaks of these things, wherein and whereby our father Joseph was taught by his father Jacob, which proceeding and recordation of the same was given by way of father Abraham, he having received a record as is recorded in the Book of Abraham. This record of Abraham fell into the hands of Joseph in Egypt from the high priest of On. Thus, the Lord God by his infinite wisdom and all knowing knowledge as it pertains to the work of the Father provided means whereby the literal off-spring, the covenant people of God, should maintain a familiar spiritual knowledge of the workings of God with his people from since the beginning, but also the workings of God unto the end of man in mortality. I seek this familiar spirit that cometh only by the power of God, by the spirit of revelation and by the spirit of prophesy which gift cometh from the Holy Ghost unto righteous men of God in all ages of man in mortality.

45Nephi, our first father in the land of promise, on his journey unto the land of Nephi and into the land of Shem did inquire concerning these things for he was taught of his father Lehi, and an angel of the Lord did make manifest the repository, and there, he enlarged his understanding and knowledge concerning the workings of God our Father; then he knew without a doubt, for he knew with great faith, what would befall his posterity in the latter-days and unto the last days. Wherefore, he relentlessly sought to know and understand, preparing all means for this time, even a preparation of preservation, that a child should be born of his loins, and unto him should the angels protect and guide. All lands, sites, and places of holiness were prepared and consecrated, and angels guided this one so chosen, this one who should come to understand, with a journeying much like his fathers before him unto great salvation and restoration for a people who were called in a first covenant, that in the time appointed, he should seek for his appointment unto the same. This man, all the righteous fathers called of God have spoken of him and all the fathers have raised up unto God a prayer of faith, that couple with their works and the works of this choice seer, shall the work of the Lord be completed in accord with the will of the Father. Thus it is and thus it will be for God hath spoken it and God has prepared means whereby the promises made and covenants entered into shall all be fulfilled that the end of his works may come with power and authority; it is for this intent all is written, recorded, and kept in holy writ that one literal seed, of his own free will, may come to know and understand who he is and who his God is.

46Even as Moses was placed in an ark of reeds, and the sister of Pharaoh scooped him out of the water, and he was thereby raised of her in her household that had not the promise, Moses was taught of the Egyptian regarding scholarly knowledge, the language and ways of the Egyptian hierarchy, and the religion of the Egyptian, he forsook all this to be with his people when he came to understand Jehovah. Wherefore, in a type and a shadow of what is written concerning this Moses, even Moses said that the Lord should raise up a Moses unto the children of Lehi in the last days; and to him they should look for God should be with him.

47This day shall come not with bells ringing and music being played to usher in a time for this child, but the child shall be taught from on high to know the truth; and upon his head shall the blessings of the fathers be placed and in him shall be distilled truths unimagined; even truths that shall resonated among the gentile people.

48Moroni did spend many days in the repository to complete the work he had been called to perform and in this place, he found refuge and safety, and he had courage firmly in God. Wherefore, it is written wherein Nephi spoke and said: I have seen him and my brother Jacob has also seen him; thus, this truth speaketh of times in the repository, the vault of stone, wherein, the God of Israel did personally manifest himself unto them and instructed them. Therefore, their callings and elections were indeed made sure unto eternal life, and in them, nothing wavered and there was not a vacillation of spirit. Moroni did receive courage and spiritual strength that cometh of righteousness, having no fear and doubt, for he knew God was with him; this is liken unto Joshua in the Book of Deuteronomy, the first chapter, where he is instructed of God to lead God's people into the land of promise as is written.

49And then, I heard another voice, this voice beaconing me, uttering eternal truths from the valley of Adam-Ondi-Ahman, even the very same valley wherein father Adam gathered his posterity for a final time before he went by way of the earth; even a rushing of wind, as if were that the four winds of the earth are coming together, even as if it were that in this time, all dispensations of this earth shall come together in finality, yea, even the covenant people of the Lord is to usher in the finality of times, that the earth may rest for 1000 years that evil may be put out that this earth may put on its Eden with a newness of life. Yea, this voice uttered unto me the seven seals that hold all things to be put into one, even, the final sealing that shall bring forth peace, purity, and newness, but before that time, destruction shall proceed forth in the earth, destroying this terrestrial and telestial existence. For behold, the kingdom of the devil must be destroyed and it must fall, and for a time, the devil and his angels must be bound and put into their place for a season, then the end shall come as it is written.

50And as it is written, there shall be a new heaven and a new earth, and with this newness, the New Jerusalem shall be builded up that God the Father may come, that this earth may be redeemed to receive its celestial crowning and glory that it may become pure and perfected by God the Father and his celestial spouse; yea, then shall the angels come to glorify God singing glory be given to the Highest and all perfection shall bow and worship in grand adoration and grand humility to the Father of all.

51Wherefore, behold and be ye full of knowledge and understanding concerning truths, and more specifically the language of God. For I have said in other truths revealed that my ways are not your ways for the things of God are higher than the things of man, and my thoughts are not your thoughts, but it behooveth man, and I speak of righteous men of God who seek this truth and who come to understanding as I have described and have heretofore commanded in other revealed truths. Now, I speak unto you in clarity and in plainness that what I speak cannot be misinterpreted or misunderstood, for what I speak shall be as the reasoning of man. I speak and tell thee that when I speak of a newness it is indeed a newness for I did speak and say ye shall walk in a newness of life even that ye should serve in newness of spirit, and unto mine apostles of old and I did speak then and I said: No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto an old garment, for that which is put in to fill it up taketh from the garment, and the rent is made worse. Neither do men put new wine into old bottles; else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

52O ye wicked and perverse nations of the gentile, ye stiffnecked people with whom God has been generous in extending salvation unto you, why have ye built up churches unto yourselves to get gain? The Lord saith that he hath not seen any righteous offerings in the building up his kingdom for the restoration of his long dispersed children of the covenant. Why have ye transgressed the holy word of God, that ye might bring damnation upon your souls? Behold, look ye unto the revelations of God and what do they speak? For behold, the time cometh, soon, when all these things I am writing about shall be fulfilled, then what will ye say?

53For behold, the prayers of the fathers were on behalf of him that should write these things, or in other words, that the Lord should suffer that things should be brought forth in this day. And not one gentile can say that they shall not come forth, for they surely shall, for the Lord hath spoken it; for out of the earth shall they come, by the hand of the Lord, and none can stay it; and it shall come in a day when it shall be said that miracles are done away; and it shall come even as if one should speak from the dead. And it shall come in a day when the blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret combinations and the works of darkness. Yea, it shall come in a day when the power of God shall be denied, and churches shall become defiled and be lifted up in the pride of their hearts; yea, even in a day when leaders of churches and teachers shall rise up in the pride of their hearts, even to the envying of them who belong to their churches. Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be heard of fires, and tempests, and vapors of smoke in foreign lands; and there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of wars, and earthquakes in divers places. Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be great pollutions upon the face of the earth; there shall be murders, and robbing, and lying, and deceiving, and whoredoms, and all manner of abominations; when there shall be many who shall say, do this, or do that, and it mattereth not, for the Lord will uphold such, for they are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity. Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be churches built up that shall say: come unto me, and for your money, you shall be forgiven of your sins.

54I testify by the spirit of the Lord that that day spoken of is this day of which it is written. There is none other time for the gentiles and the receipt of the gospel of Christ as is described in holy writ to confounding of the work of the devil as is written in the holy word of God. This the day wherein men shall love money, and their substance, and their fine apparel, and the adorning of the churches wherein they extend their craft unto men; and this they do more than care for the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted. Wherefore, O ye pollutants, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God?

55Wherefore, I say unto you: God your Father shall not place his works of salvation and restoration into the existing gentile church, but he shall raise up a new church as prophesied, and this church shall be called the church of the Firstborn, a church named for his Firstborn Son, even Jesus Christ, and it shall fill the land of the first inheritance even unto the land of the New Jerusalem. I tell thee this thing and say unto you, what do the scriptures say? For truly the day shall come, even a day of redemption of the saints of God, and the children of the bride chamber shall mourn no more, for the bridegroom shall be with them, and they shall rejoice, for this is the law. This is the beginning of the newness spoken of for all things shall become new and I lie not. Moreover, God has commanded in other times as in this time, that a permanent and an everlasting establishment of his laws by order shall be found in the church of the Firstborn, not likened unto the present gentile church; this the Lord shall cause to advance his righteousness and cause, which all who belong to this sealing by covenant shall espouse for the salvation of his people that glory may be exalted and given to the Most High God, even the Father who is in heaven.

56Thus, a commandment I give unto you; learn of my ways and be more perfectly instructed for what I instruct shall endure the destruction that shall come upon the earth, yet I shall save my people. I command you in a time set and appointed that ye shall teach my people to be equal in all bonds of heavenly things, yea, and I command that ye be equal in earthly things for the obtaining of heavenly things. Wherefore, this commandment I give that if ye are not equal in earthly things, and ye are not committed to one another for my cause, whether it be through ignorance or disobedience, ye cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things, things pertaining to this my kingdom that I shall establish in the land of the first inheritance. Notwithstanding, I have given unto you the Book of Mormon, the Bible, and the Doctrine and Covenants, from the which, I have given commandments, many have strayed from the truth because they understand not what is contained in my records. Wherefore, if ye who are found seeking this truth, I will that I give unto you a place in the celestial world, you must prepare yourselves by doing the things which I have commanded you and require of you. And now, verily, verily thus saith the Lord God of Israel, it is expedient that all things be done unto my glory, by you who are joined together in this cause, and soon, very soon, I shall endow upon you a holy order by which the land of the first inheritance shall be built up in my name by means I shall reveal. Wherefore, prepare yourselves by great understanding and by great knowledge of these things. Even so. Amen.

57Thus, I speak by the power of the Holy Ghost and saith boldly: that the Father and the Mother may come for a time, a time with their holy children in preparation for that glorious day of complete eternal redemption, if the celestial children expect total redemption, then this must be. The day cometh that we shall not seek the Father in a sanctuary made of hands, but the whole earth shall be sanctified for this earth shall be his kingdom. I speak and say also, as the spirit permits me to speak, that in the original gathering of our father Adam and all the fathers, such a manifestation was made in the valley of Adam-Ondi-Ahman, for such was a family gathering, for such a gathering empowers life to the earth to endure and re-establishes commitments and promises made unto the end of time; Enoch and his people also received the fulness of this glorious redemption before the city of Enoch was taken into the heavenly abode of God, and the fact that a people completed their purpose in this life before the end of time did not destroy or disrupt the appointed times and actions to be made unto God by the elect of God; and such shall be the purpose of the preparation of an elect people of God that shall be made in this the last dispensation, wherein all those who received of the Son in its fullness may enjoy such a heavenly blessing together in the land of the first inheritance to prepare the sacrament that is appointed and all holy actions to be completed as appointed and as prepared from since the beginning; then at that time, surely we shall embrace one another and cry upon one another's shoulder for then shall we remember all things as it were in the beginning, by them who have accomplished such saintly actions and are accounted worthy to participate.

58Now, the spirit also telleth me that actions in the appearance of righteousness, but not accounted like unto the righteousness of father Abraham shall not be likened unto the offering of Abel, but shall be likened unto Cain's offering that affords no mercy or grace because it is action without righteousness as heretofore mentioned in this writing, such as had come to pass among the Nephitic people and now come to pass among the gentilic people who have received a fulness of the gospel, but there is no faith in their works. As the scriptures saith: In many instances they do error and stray from the ordinances given unto them in understanding and knowing the true points of the doctrine of Christ, and they are blown around by the mischief, the untruths that produce the precepts of men that even the more righteous of them do stray from the gospel; and that partial obedience shall close heaven unto the destruction of a blind and sinful people.

59Wherefore, I speak the words of Mormon: Behold, I say unto you, he that denieth these things knoweth not the gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he does not understand them. For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of changing?

60Now I speak more concerning the revelation I have received that a more precise and clear understanding might be given concerning what is to take place and what will come to pass concerning the redemption of Zion in accord with what is written in holy writ. It must be that the land of the first inheritance must be prepared as was in the beginning for this was the first inheritance of our father Adam, it being designated as a holy sanctuary unto God, this place having been prepared of God for such a condition and state wherein man may prepare to meet his God, the God of Israel. Wherefore, God requires all that dwell thereon covenant with him to keep all his laws for his people shall be governed by his laws in this land; moreover, living the gospel and the worship of God is daily and not conditioned for a seventh day only, as the gentiles do.

61The Lord did come in the days of Adam, in the time of Enoch, in the time of Ether, and in the time of First Nephi and unto Third Nephi, yea, he was in the land for many years during the time of Fourth Nephi, and he came again instructing and directing his working upon closure of the Nephitic period, Moroni having seen and was administered by his Savior; therefore, I testify that this land of the first inheritance is the land of the Savior, for this is the land of inheritance unto the first born in mortality, and unto immortality do we all look and seek, which land we seek is the land of the New Jerusalem.

62For in days to come, and that time is not yet, for Zion must increase in beauty, and in holiness; her borders must be enlarged; and her stakes must be strengthened; yea, verily I say unto you, Zion must arise and put on her beautiful garments. For thus the scriptures bear witness to the truth saying: In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed - unto the pouring out of the Holy Ghost through me upon the gentiles, which blessing upon the gentiles shall make them mighty above all, unto the scattering of my people, O house of Israel. And they shall be a scourge unto the people of this land. Nevertheless, when they have received a fulness of my gospel, then if they shall harden their hearts against me I will return their iniquities upon their own heads saith the Father. And I will remember the covenant which I have made with my people; and I have covenanted with them that I would gather them together in my own due time, that I would give unto them again the land of fathers for their inheritance, which is the land of Jerusalem, which is promised unto them forever, saith the Father. And it shall come to pass that the time cometh, when the fulness of my gospel shall be preached unto them. And they shall believe in me, that I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, and they shall pray unto the Father in my name. Then shall their watchman, these are my servants I have chosen, they shall lift up their voices, and with a voice together shall they sing; for they shall see eye to eye. Then will the Father gather them together again, and give unto them Jerusalem for the land of their inheritance. Then shall they break forth into joy - sing together, ye waste places of Jerusalem; for the Father hath comforted his people, he hath redeemed Jerusalem. The Father hath made bare his arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of the Father; and the Father and I are one. And then shall be brought to pass that which is written: Awake, awake again, and put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city, for henceforth there shall no more come into thee uncircumcised and the unclean. Shake thyself from the dust; arise, sit down, O Jerusalem; loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter Zion.

63Then I bear a witness and say: for thus saith the Lord: Ye men of Israel, children of Jacob, ye have sold yourselves for naught unto the gentiles and ye do worship them in ignorance, and ye shall be redeemed without money. The day cometh; verily, verily I say unto you, that the people of the Lord shall know my name; yea, in that day they shall know that I am he that doth speak. For in a mighty preparation and redemption shall I make of them for I will send one mighty and strong, who is my faithful and obedient servant, and then shall they say: how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth good tidings unto them, that publisheth peace; that bringeth good tidings unto them of good, that publisheth salvation; that saith unto Zion: thy God reigneth! Then shall a cry go forth from the land of the fathers, the land of the first inheritance unto all who hath eyes to see and ears to hear: Depart ye, depart ye, go out from thence, touch not that which is unclean; go ye out from the midst of the daughter of spiritual Babylon; be ye clean that bear the vessels of the Lord.

64For the Lord hath spoken concerning this thing: For behold, my servant shall deal prudently with the gentile. When that day shall come, even in a day when the seed of Jacob, indeed, the seed of Nephi, shall be begin to know these things, it shall not come from the gentile to them but shall come from the Father unto them. This is a sign that the work of the Father hath already commenced, even that the Lord is revealing these truths unto one. For if there be one among you that doeth good, he shall work by the power and gifts of God. Then the Father shall cause that this one shall reveal truths hid even unto the gentile heads, and the Lord shall shut their mouths at what they shall hear; for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they considered. And the Father shall cause him to bring forth truth out of the earth unto the gentiles, and the Father shall give him power that he shall bring them forth unto the gentiles, (then, it shall be done even as Moses said) they shall be cut off from among my people who are of the covenant. Then, my people who are a remnant of Jacob shall be among the gentile, yea, in them midst of them as a lion among the beast of the forest, as a young lion among the flock of sheep, who, if he goeth through both treadeth down and treareth in pieces, and none can deliver.

65I bear a witness that the Savior Jesus Christ shall stand again in the land of the first inheritance for he did say at another time: Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee. Wherefore, ye men of the Remnant, and O' Israel, hear ye what hath been prophesied by your fathers and open thine eyes and unplug thine ears that ye may see and hear this familiar spirit of the which resonates in the gospel of Christ, from the beginning even before the world wast unto this time that ye may prepare for the bridegroom cometh in a day of redemption. Even the very angels in heaven anxiously await and cannot contain themselves any longer, and they cry repeatedly when the day of retribution is to come; for the time of his coming is nigh at hand.

66In this the time of Israel that I am speaking of, I speak and say that the Dispensation of the Grace of God is fulfilled, in other words, the times of the gentiles is fulfilled and is closed, and the gentile have no power to make afraid or shall they disturb the people of the Lord. Yea, notwithstanding the blessings given of God to the gentile, they have turned there from the Lord all righteousness; then in a mighty preparation shall all the righteous men and women of God, in perfected-resurrected bodies dwell in the land of the first inheritance. These are they who are the people of the Lord unto whom the blessings spoken of shall come. For the spirit of the Lord speaketh the unsearchable mysteries, even eternal truths hid unto man, he saith: The Lord God Almighty, the God of our fathers, even the Great I AM, yea I say, that very same Jesus that is called the Christ shall come with other key members of his kingdom, and a resurrection shall be called forth and many graves shall be opened, even of them that have slept unto the four corners of the earth; and they shall be commanded to come to the land of the first inheritance, and this is only the beginning of greater things to come to pass according to holy writ. Many shall be given the blessing of nurturing and raising children unto God without opposition and many, many righteous children shall be brought in flesh to receive the blessings of the gospel without impediment and distractions as heretofore happened.

67Therefore, I speak and say: That no man go beyond and defraud his brother in any matter; because that the Lord is the avenger of all such, as ye have been forewarned in other writings of saintly servants. For God in preparing a holy people, doth not call his servants unto uncleanness, but unto holiness. He therefore that has heard this thing or hast read such a thing written, despiseth what hast been written in warning to repent, despiseth not man, but God, who hath given unto righteous servants his holy spirit, and by this power are all such forewarnings written.

68Great shall be the joy and happiness of a Zion people, a pure and righteous people before the Lord; and none shall stay the work of the Lord nor make afraid the people of the Lord. In that day there shall be some, yea, even other tribes of Israel that shall come to see such a people whose God is the Lord, and they shall come for they shall hear that the Lord talks to this people for the Lord is their God. Then shall we say, where is our mother Rebekah, does she yet speak of me? And we shall have the blessings of knowing and to be fully acquainted with all our mothers from since the beginning, and great shall be the joy of the people of the Lord for our umbilical cord shall yet be blessed by our mothers and by our mother the earth.

69The people of the Lord shall be an industrious people whose hands are of God. Yea, they shall plant many fields with fruit bearing trees, grapes of every kind, and fields of corn and wheat shall be their main stay, and all manner of livestock shall be found in their fields and all sorts of vegetables shall be planted to sustain a small nation. The fields shall be bounteous and great shall be their store houses to feed the poor of Israel, but they shall be rich in God and great shall be their righteousness before the God of Abraham. For they shall be a blessed people of the Lord. God shall bless them in season, even an extended season of rain and a mild temperate climate shall be theirs to excel production, cutting the season in short. They shall be taught from on high and their school master shall be their fathers from ancient times, and they shall be taught concerning the manner of irrigation and the manner of the harvest, the very act of preservation of fruit and the harvest, that through obedience all shall have things in common, and God shall give them revelations. And they shall be taught of the pure gospel of Christ, and there shall not be found a more happier and delightful people, raised in purity and the graciousness of the charity of the Lord, and the Lord shall be among his people.

70Then it shall be said of the Lord: Therefore, ye mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord God; thus saith the Lord God to the mountains, and to the hills, to the rivers, and to the valleys, to the desolate wastes, and to the cities that are forsaken, which became a prey and derision to the residue of the heathen round about; wherefore, my faithful servant prophesy ye unto the mountains, the hills, the valleys, to the rivers, and to all the desolate cities which have been forsaken by the gentiles and the bondage they have made of them; Behold, I, the Lord, have spoken aforetime in my jealousy and in my fury for the works of thy fathers, wherefore, ye have borne the shame of the heathen unto this day; therefore, thus saith the Lord, I have lifted up mine hand, surely the heathen that is round about thee shall bear their shame; but ye mountains of Israel, ye shall shoot forth your branches, and yield your fruit to my people of Israel; for they are at hand to come. For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown; and I will multiply my covenant people upon you, all the house of Israel, even of it they shall become a small nation preserved and established in the name of the Lord; and the cities shall yet be inhabited of a righteous people, and the ancient waste places shall be builded up again. I will cause to multiply upon thee man and beast; and they shall increase and bring forth fruit; and I will settle you after your old estates, and I will do better unto you than at your beginnings; and ye shall know that I am the Lord. Yea, I shall cause men to walk upon you, even my people, the remnant of Joseph and their kindred; and they shall possess thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, even a land of the first inheritance, and thou shalt no more bereave them of men.

71The day soon cometh, and it shall come quickly, and no man shall be prepared to withstand the punishment of the Lord, and all they who know me not shall perish as a night vision, and I shall save the righteous of my people and all they who have done a work in the earth in my name, they are they I shall bring when I come, and I come quickly.

72O my children, ye sons of Jacob, I will not cause any man to hear of thee the shame of the heathen any more, neither shalt thou bear the reproach of the people any more, neither shalt thou cause thy nations to fall any more, saith the Lord God. Son of man, O ye my servant, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings; their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman, wherein they polluted all things before. Therefore, I poured my fury upon them for the blood that they had shed upon the land, and for their idols wherewith they had polluted it, and I scattered them among the heathen, even the gentiles unto this day, and they were dispersed through all countries they knew not; according to their ways and according to their doings I judged them.

73Thus, as I have spoken before, I did remove them out of the land of the first inheritance for the blood they spilled thereon, even to the land of Cumorah; and I, the Lord, did wash this land of the blood they did spill thereon by my blood and the land did rest, whereby a newness in the land should come thereon in these last days. Wherefore, I will sanctify my name, which name was profaned among this my people, and is now being profaned among the gentiles, and they knew me not. And the gentile shall know that I will be sanctified in you before their eyes, then shall thy cry aloud for they shall know my people.

74I will take you from among the heathen, and gather you out from all countries whether I have scattered you, and I will bring you into your own lands. Then will I sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean before me; from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you, in this day of grace I extend unto you because of my love for your righteous fathers in that they kept my commandments and all my statutes I gave unto them. Yea, I did promise them that I would remember you and bring to your knowledge this gospel for the which they worked so tirelessly in their time.

75A new heart will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you; and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you a heart of flesh. And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and ye shall do them. And because ye have turned unto me with full purpose of heart and I have gathered you out from among the gentiles, ye shall again dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers, even the land of the first inheritance, which by your obedience to my laws that I shall give unto you, ye shall become my people, and I will be your God.

76For behold it is written: Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not according to the covenant I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. Yea, they broke mine everlasting covenant that I gave unto them and for that reason I did cause them to go into captivity for a period of seventy years that the land did rest and in which time I did recover them, but they did not hear and do the things I commanded they should do. Wherefore, I did take a branch broken off to another land prepared, and there I blessed them, this my people that a work they should perform for days to come, and they did perform that which I commanded, and it was done. But this my covenant people did break mine everlasting covenant anew and they were destroyed thereby.

77For this is the covenant that I will make anew with the house of Israel after those days, a new time to come, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their minds, and write them in their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, know the Lord; like unto the gentile; for all shall know me for I will be in their midst, from the least to the greatest. For I will be merciful unto their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. Then when there is a new heaven and a new earth, it shall be said: A new covenant he hath made, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.

78The mountains and the valleys shall funnel down new water upon them in season, and the earth shall spring forth new water unto them out of season, and their water shall be an endless supply to water a thirsty land cultivated for the independence and sustainability of a small nation; yea, their wells shall run over; this nation shall not receive of the gentile their craft or works that corrupt and destroy. Yet, God in his mercy and judgment shall permit repentant gentiles, yea, a stranger to be found among them, gentiles who shall take upon themselves the name of Christ unto true repentance and know whereby salvation cometh and from whence the gentile shall receive of his blessing and heritage. If the gentile repents it shall be well with him; yea, those who shall hearken unto my words, which words are the words of Christ, and harden not their hearts, and unto them, shall the Lord establish his church among them, and those gentiles shall come into the covenant and shall be numbered among this the remnant of Jacob, unto whom the land of the first inheritance is given them; and these are they who shall be called forth that they may build a city called the New Jerusalem.

79And thus saith the God of Israel: I will save you from all your uncleanness, which uncleanness ye have taken from the gentile; and I will call for the corn, and I will increase it, and lay no famine upon you; but I will multiply the fruit of the tree, and the increase of the field, that ye shall receive no more reproach of famine which shall exist among the gentile. Then with this mighty hand of deliverance, ye shall remember your own evil ways, and your doings that were not good, and lothe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations ye have caused to overcome my lands of inheritance. Not for your sakes do I this, saith the Lord God, be it known unto you; be ashamed and confounded for your own ways, O house of Israel; but I so this thing for my sake and for my Father's sake, and that I promised thy fathers, that for their righteousness in me and their faith, I shall do this thing that they might be, and that the works they did in my name might come to pass to glorify my Father which is in heaven.

80Thus saith the Lord God: In the day that I will cleanse you from all your iniquities I will cause you to dwell in the cities of old, and the waste shall be builded up again. And the desolate lands shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all gentiles that passed by. And these gentiles shall say in that day of the righteous who seek to be numbered among this people: (and I testify and bear witness of this truth for I have seen and the spirit of the Lord did magnify my knowledge and understanding concerning this thing), This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited. Then the gentiles that are left round about the land of the first inheritance shall know that I the Lord build the ruined places, and plant that that was desolate; I, the Lord, hath spoken it and I will do it.

81And the spirit telleth me without equivocation that a Canaanite shall not be found herein for this is not their place; they may find a place among the gentiles round about the land of the first inheritance, but not among the people of the Lord for herein is life eternal and the way of God is not theirs, even from the beginning it was so decreed of God.

82Yea, moreover I speak, this is the economics of the Lord, a strange act of his love unto those who seek to establish his laws, ordinances, charters, and workings by covenant and order as is decreed from before the foundation of this world, unto a peculiar people, a royal generation of his heritage, the original first fruit, bearing the holy high priesthood after the order of the Son of God to perform that which is commanded without fail or partiality, in accord with his will, while the rest of the earth shall perish the impure people, even nations, kindred, tongue and peoples, for they seek not the things of God or they seek to change the order of God, thus they shall remain in bondage and sin. The Lord shall not respect any man for money or social status, he doth not look upon sin with the lease degree of allowance, but requires an obedient and upright people who chose him to be their God. Thus, it is known of all righteous men of God that serve this God that ye cannot please this God without faith in him and obedience he shall charge unto all his people to keep the commandments that shall bring forth the will of the Father in perfection unto sanctification.

83In this people whose foundation shall be the Lord, it is written of God saying: All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children. In righteousness shall thou be established; thou shall be far from oppression for thou shalt not fear, and from terror for it shall not come near thee. Behold, the gentiles shall surely gather against thee, not by me; whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for my sake. I shall magnify again the powers given unto Enoch and a swift destruction shall come upon any people that shall gather against my people. Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that brought forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy. No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall revile against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord, and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord.

84For behold, there shall be found among the disobedient people all kinds of devastation, both in the earth and from heaven, pestilences more than was known as of Egypt, they shall have drought and flooding destroying their handwork with destroying famine, they shall have disease and sore afflictions causing many to seek death, and they shall have wars and rumors of wars, even in places that has had no strife, but war shall come unto them and shall find them; there shall not be found peace to any degree except among the people of God. The Lord shall take all his blessings from them and shall he vex them with a sore cursing as never before had, and many shall fall to their knees and ask for forgiveness, but the Lord shall not hear them for their time is not anymore. The ocean shall heave itself beyond her boundaries and shall destroy many cities; and the earth shall shake from within unto much destruction; the earth shall open and heave herself beyond many borders, and the heaven shall be heavy and there shall be darkness upon the face thereof; and there shall be mourning and crying as never before told, and many shall die thereby. Many shall seek the mysteries through men thinking to find the truth, and they shall be devastated thereby while others shall be filled with ignorance that cometh of the devil to destroy them even like unto what is spoken of, being bound with the chains of hell.

85The earth shall be in commotion; men's hearts shall fail them to see before them the devastation of their kindred folks and those they love. Their pleading to the God that they have never known shall be sorrowful, sorrowful like unto the damned. These are they who have procrastinated the day of their repentance until they shall see with their eyes concerning what is written in holy writ is before them, then shall they howl with pain and anguish likened unto the crying of the damn, and many shall curse God thereby. This is called the wailing and gnashing of teeth, likened unto being cast into the endless pit of hell wherein there is no quenching of their pain and anguish.

86The chains of hell is the power of devil to blind the eyes of men; this blindness overcomes man because of the craft of man and distractions resultant thereby which cometh of this world; even as it is written, this is the very kingdom of Satan, the very devil that deceived our first parents, and the same devil that has been deceiving man from since the beginning who causes strife, dissention, wars and rumors of wars, hate shall the devil cause to abound in the earth that the love of man waxes cold, and that evil cometh of the devil shall seek it darkest corners in secret combinations to murder and to plunder to get gain for oaths sake; and this the devil doeth that the liberty and freedom of man is overcome unto destruction of man's agency, that nations and countries might be destroyed, that this gospel of Christ might be destroyed, even that there is none salvation or restoration of things as it is written. Thus, the devil overcomes man in this world destroying man's hope and faith in God; yea, man then seeks spirits that peep, familiar spirits of the devil, witchcraft, hand shakers, and false prophets that loved to be heard and rewarded of men.

87These are the things I saw and heard concerning them that shall be destroyed and overcome by the devil.

88Now I speak concerning the people of the Lord: great shall be their land, yea, even a land of promise and an inheritance given them of God from above, land choice above all other lands in the land of promise; God shall overshadow them and protect them from all destructions and pestilences for the earth shall be fruitful unto them. They shall not hunger for want of food or drink in all the land of the first inheritance for this is the just reward given unto the people of the Lord, and none can stay these blessings for the Lord hath spoken it from since the beginning, and his people wait on him in a mighty preparation of perfection and sanctification.

89Because ye are lawful heirs and the high priesthood hath remain in thy seed, perfection and sanctification shall be achieved based on faith and works from since the beginning before the world wast. My children, perfection and sanctification comes unto man by obedience to a fulness of the celestial laws, these laws are found in the Book of Law. And the spirit of the Lord shall reveal a newness to these laws very soon. Verily, verily I say unto you that God in his graciousness to his people hast revealed some of these laws for the benefit of his people, and these laws are found in holy writ, and in keeping these laws to benefit man's perfection and sanctification, man must bind himself to God by covenant. Therefore, it is by a true baptism that man commits to God his agency to continually do good, having therefore a boldness of perfection and sanctification to enter into the holiest by the blood of the Christ, by a new and living way set in law, which the Christ hath consecrated for them that love and obey him, to take that man through the veil, that is to say, his flesh washed in pure water. Accordingly, this strict obedience of the law in keeping God's commandments spoken of brings man towards the presence of God that he might petition in righteousness the things which are of God; ordinal oblations are in like manner given unto him to remind and to act in accord with that which is written in holy writ that that man might humble himself before God in a continuous act of obedience that shall eventually be replaced by God himself in a day to come; and then, God replaces all things with eternal truths, and the typifying is done away with because he sees and knows, and in which time appointed by God the Father which truths are made manifest in the Son, and always, in a place so designated or appointed whereunder all things are put in motion by them that know and understand from since before the foundation of this world. These truths are manifested unto them that seek to understand these mysteries as they pertain to the laws of God, and it is done unto them by the power of the Holy Ghost, which holy personage is given unto these righteous men to reveal truths, yea, these men who are called, to receive manifestation of such truths. These things are not given unto those who seek not these things in the spirit of Christ neither is it given unto men who are sinful before him, and it is not given to them who are honorable and good men of the earth for these truths are naught unto them for this world is their kingdom because the love of the Father is not in them.

90Now, I see in vision concerning the faith of Abraham, when he was called to go out into a place which he should afterwards receive as an inheritance, he obeyed; and he went out, not knowing whither he went. And accordingly many before him and many after him did the same; even our father Joseph and our father Lehi, and even at a young age Nephi did believe with a mighty faith unto mighty works concerning the land of promise, but also the land of the first inheritance. These all died in faith, a belief in things they had not seen, or by the graciousness of God, a glimpse of a future was given them; and, all these did not receive the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and they confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth. For in their writings, they declared plainly that they seek a country; and this country is the land of promise, a land where upon the New Jerusalem should be built. And truly, had their children been mindful of that country from whence they came out, they might have had the opportunity to return. Few righteous men of God, they desired a better country, that is, an heavenly place; wherefore, God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city. Therefore, God did bring the seed of Abraham upon this land, even a branch broken off to be remembered in the last days; a people visited of the Savior; a people who is called the seed through Isaac; wherefore, by faith Isaac blessed our father Jacob, and by faith Jacob blessed Joseph and in his old age, the sons of Joseph; by faith Joseph blessed all of Israel; and by faith Moses did mighty works in the name of God for the covenant people of the Lord. I bear a solemn testimony of the same, and I speak that Lehi by faith obeyed the voice of the Lord and took his family out of Jerusalem to find that country all the fathers had spoken of, and by faith Nephi obeyed his father in all things even unto strict obedience of God's laws concerning the seed to come in the last days; wherefore, he worked a work that spanned the ages wherein Moroni completed all things that the records might fall into the hands of a literal descendant of Nephi in the latter-days.

91Then I bear a solemn witness of the faith of all these men through all the ages, who through faith on these things subdued kingdoms, wrought mighty righteousness by faith, obtained promises, and many stopped the mouths of lions, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned with raised hands and made flight the armies of the aliens, righteous women with mighty faith received of the Lord a blessing of their dead raised to life again, and others were tortured, not accepting deliverance; that they might obtain a better resurrection; and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourging, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment unjustly decreed to silence them of what they spoke; and some were stoned, some were sawn asunder in a cruel manner, some were tempted, and some were slain with the sword; these righteous men who found grace in God wandered about in sheepskins and goatskins being ridiculed and slandered; they being destitute had no possessions or wherewith to lay their heads - being afflicted and tormented; ( of whom the world was not worthy to receive in form of a blessing from God); these wandered in deserts and in the mountains, and in dens and caves of the earth. And all these having obtained a good report of what I have written, did they their work and sealed all they did unto God for another day to come, though they received the good report by faith, they received not the promise. Wherefore, in God, we their children who live in this day, through God, they having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect, or that, we cannot be made perfect without them.

92I speak and say unto you: that the redemption of mine afflicted people must come by power and it must come by what hath been decreed. Behold, my people must learn to be obedient in all things, and they cannot seek to establish my Zion by being disobedient of the things I require at their hands; they cannot be full of the mischief of the gentile by not imparting of their substance as becometh saints of God, more specifically the poor and afflicted among my people. Therefore, I reaffirm what I have declared in other commandments, even among the founders of the gentile church restored by grace given unto them for a time, that they must be united according to the union required by the law of the celestial kingdom. This union by covenant is required to establish my Zion, and from this daughter, shall the city of the New Jerusalem be builded, even by a pure and righteous people. For I am to be heard with clarity of speech unto my people that Zion cannot be established in the land of the first inheritance but by the principles of the laws of the celestial kingdom, if ye expect for me to be among you, otherwise, I and my Father cannot receive her unto ourselves in days to come. The time of chastening is over, now the time of destruction draweth nigh that the earth may be cleansed from all evil, and in that time, I shall establish a pure and righteous people obedient to my laws.

93As concerning obedience, I shall impart of my spirit to my servants for they shall embrace what is spoken and they shall cherish up the truth into their hearts, and this they shall do for the love of the Father is in them. In all ages of man upon this earth, man has sought to keep my commandments by changing the requirements of obedience, this action of disobedience is a perversion for they know me not neither do they know my Father; for my Father is unchanging and his course is one eternal round. By this ye may know that the works of man is frustrated. Thus according as it is written, unholy man has restricted ignorant men by destroying their potential through control to eliminate and destroy man's capacity to believe and to search truth. Rather, in great ignorance doth the devil do his work unto a belief in half truths unto partial obedience which is contrary to the teaching of Christ; thus, fear is employed to cause man to pay an offering and to pay tithes to men, ignorance and fear causes man to hear without understanding - to see without a trust of God that God revealeth truths unto righteous men of God, and in fear of man do men worship the unknown God, and men lack the authority to exercise any power in the name of the one true God.

94I, the Lord, am to be obeyed when I give a commandment unto my people, and I again, I speak with clarity of speech; I the Lord shall not give a commandment unto a people unless they have a circumcised heart that willeth obedience to what I command, for my people shall I cause not to pollute mine heritage, and to blaspheme my holy name upon the land which I have had consecrated for the gathering together of my saints, both on earth and from heaven above. Wherefore, know and understand that any thing that cometh from above is holy and it cometh of my Father.

95For this cause, I, the Lord, command that my people shall receive my voice, and whoso receiveth my voice is acquainted with me and whoso receiveth not my voice is not acquainted with me, and is not of me. By this truth, shall my people know the righteous from the wicked. Therefore, I command you to know that I am and I will be with you, even unto the end of time.

96Then the spirit of the Lord fell on me, which spirit maketh the very core of my soul to quake and to feel the love that the Father has for all them that love him, and them that the Father loves is loved of the Son; I was then carried to the valley of Shem and I stood in the midst of the valley, and there before me, I saw bones of many that had died. These bones cried unto God for they would not raise sword in the name of God and their belief in God. Yea, the spirit told me that there were many who would rather die in the Lord than to raise sword to kill their brethren; for this was the love I did feel. The spirit did cause me to walk the valley, and I saw many bones, these bones were very dry and I did walk carefully that I should not crush them under foot. And the spirit of the Lord said unto me: servant of the Lord, can these bone yet live? And I answered and said: In the name of the Lord God Almighty it shall be for this is his people! Then the spirit saith unto me again: Raise thy hands unto the four corners of the earth, and call for the winds, and with raised hands, prophesy unto them: O' ye dry bones of righteous men, thy God liveth and reigneth, hear the words of the Lord! Thus saith the Lord God Almighty: Unto ye bones, behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live; and I will lay sinews upon you, and I will bring flesh upon you, and ye shall live that ye shall serve me and know that I am your God. Wherefore, I understood the resurrection of the just, and I stood in this valley with many great and mighty ones of God, and I did as I was commanded of the Lord and I raised my hands and prophesied unto them who were dead: there began to be noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bones to bones; I beheld, lo, the flesh and sinew came upon the bones, and skin covered them as they stood before me, men and women of middle age, children, both boys and girls, and men and women of age, then all became like unto a newness of persons, yet, I perceived no breath was in them. Then I was commanded to prophesy unto the wind of God and say unto the wind, thus saith the Lord God: come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these who have been slain, that they may live. And I did as I was commanded and in all righteousness and faith did I speak, and the Lord did breathe upon them and the breath of life came into them, and they did live, and they stood before me upon their feet, an exceeding army of the Lord. And the spirit of the Lord said unto me: these bones made alive are the whole of the house of Israel. They did command me to speak words saying: Thus saith the Lord God of Israel: Behold, O my people, I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of your fathers, even the land of the first inheritance and there ye shall be my people and ye shall there serve me. And I shall put my spirit in you, and I shall place you there and ye shall live again in your own lands; then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it saith the Lord.

97Yea, for this cause, I shall will send forth the one mighty and strong, he of whom all the prophets have spoken, in that time acceptable; for power and authority shall be given of him by me, and in his hand shall he hold that power of the scepter of the High Priesthood that no man can take from him, he shall be clothed with a covering of celestial capacity to do mighty works in the name of his brethren, and by order and right, he shall utter words eternal, even words that were spoken even from the beginning, and he shall be filled with an everlasting fountain of truth; and this I shall bestow upon him that he may set in order the saints of God, by order and right, in the land of the first inheritance surrounding the House of God, by lot and responsibility to all the saints whose names are written in the Lord's Book of Life, enrolled from since the beginning in the Book of the Law of God. Moreover he shall make a covenant of peace and it shall be an everlasting covenant unto the people of the Lord, the people of the Lord shall be placed therein this land and the Lord shall multiply them, and through him shall the Lord set his sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore. The gentile shall know that the Lord doeth sanctify Israel, when the house of the Lord shall be in the midst of them, herein shall I come suddenly to my people. Wherefore, I speak and it shall be done on earth as in heaven, and this seal placed from since the beginning shall remain, and I and my Father have the authority to unseal that all truth may be revealed in due time; these are they who are lawful heirs of the kingdom whom I have hid to the world, for the world knows them not, but I know my sheep for I am the good shepherd. Therefore, this unsealing I speak of is that the lives of my servants and the priesthood have remained, in the earth and in heaven, and must needs be that a place is consecrated for them to come for this is the restoration spoken of.

98I would not have you be ignorant brethren in things pertaining to the resurrection of the just in Christ, more concerning them of whom ye know that are asleep in Christ, that ye sorrow not concerning them, even as others which have no hope of a just resurrection. For if I tell you to believe in this Christ and that Christ died and rose again, that in days to come, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him. For I testify unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive in him and we remain in that sanctified state of perfection unto the coming of the Lord, we shall participate in the resurrection of the just, but if we are unjust in life, living the way of the world, we shall not prevent them which are asleep in the Lord unto a just resurrection. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, even our first father Adam, and with the trump of God; and the just dead Christ shall raise first; then, we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and so shall we be ever with the Lord. Wherefore, I speak to the just that have acquired that faith unto grace built by a foundation of perfection and sanctification through the pure gospel, ye are then consecrated to Christ and are born of him; comfort one another who do understand this gospel as written in fulness in holy writ with these words. For it is written that for this cause, God in the last days, shall send upon the unworthy vessels a strong delusion, that they should believe a lie; that all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure for a season in unrighteousness.

99Now I speak and say: verily, verily thus saith the Lord God, the same who came unto thy fathers in the land of promise, even in the land of the first inheritance, from whence came a righteous people of God unto four generations, and all they I took unto myself, and the same shall come again in a cloud of heaven to complete a work in the earth as I have spoken; now, is this not words eternal uttered from the earth, even like unto a familiar spirit that many have heard? Then knock and it shall be opened unto you, ask and ye shall receive, seek ye the kingdom of God for in it ye shall find eternal life, be ye firm and unwavering standing forth in darkness - then, if ye comprehend me then ye comprehend the light which beareth you up, and that light shall become brighter and brighter until it is brighter than noon day. Amen.

100In that day, many shall be found that their names are not written in the Book of the Law of God, and many more shall be found to have procrastinated their day of repentance and shall not be found among the house of Israel; even the time of harvest cometh that the wheat shall first be gathered from out among the tares, and after the gathering of the wheat, behold I am the Lord, the tares are bound in bundles, and the field shall be burned with the bundles of tares. There shall be weeping and wailing of teeth; the end is come.

101I shall endeavor to write more concerning this land; in the land of the first inheritance there shall be an abundance of water, the springs of water from within the earth shall come forth to water the land of the first inheritance to give life and to prepare the way for a people to know the truth. The people shall need not wander from one place to another place seeking to find water or a place of shelter, but the Lord hath prepared all things for his children and none shall make afraid or seek to destroy his children in the land of the first inheritance. For righteous men of God know that God hath done many things unto the righteous of his people for they are written in holy writ, and if God created the earth and he created man upon the earth, and it was done, then why can he not fulfill all that he hath decreed should come to pass on this earth?

102I lifted my head utterly consumed by the things I did see and heard, even a time, all times of this earth, and all that had been done and accomplished that this time might be. I marveled at the earth, she was informed that her time was about to come to pass that she might rest because of all the labor of righteous men of God who had been upon her, and that she might rest from all the evil men had committed upon her from since the beginning for this is Shemitah ( a period of six millennial appointed times, and the seventh, a thousand years of peace, a time to do only the work of God) Wherefore, God's judgment is to come soon. Then Tushri shall be again among the people of God for a period of ten periods to the end of one thousand years; for then, I was informed by the spirit that I had seen the same vision as Enoch that I might come to comprehend the workings of the Lord upon the face of the earth and the work of the Lord to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of pure and righteous men who had borne the affliction and persecution with their God in doing much righteousness upon the earth in all her time. I also beheld the mourning of many nations, kindred, tongue and people upon the face of the earth, for there was not time given for them any more to carry forth their craft and evil works, a time to prepare for God was no more, for the earth was cleansed from all evil that she might rest from her labor.

103I was about to write more concerning the coming together of lands upon the earth into one land, and more particularly of the coming of the Lord, in which time, the earth should melt with fervent heat with the coming of all his holy saints from all dispensations, but I was told not to write concerning these things. By and by such truths shall be revealed in an acceptable time, but for the present time what is revealed is sufficient and expedient, and the world does not need to know concerning such truth for they shall trample it under foot and they shall not believe.

104Wherefore, the vision I received of God was closed, and I pondered on what I came to know and understand; not all things I did receive was I permitted to write, but I did write by command what I did write. What I have written is true and it is a written testament that God does reveal his truth unto mankind, even in this day, for the work of God unto man is not yet finished. Even so, Amen.