Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings

Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings 11

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.

I 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.

As 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.

I, 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.

For 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.

Then 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.

Yea, 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.