Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings

Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings 10

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.

For 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.

The 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.

The 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.

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

Now 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.

Because 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.

Now, 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.

Then 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;