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Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings 5

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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.
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Wherefore, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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This 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.
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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.
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The selling would be conditioned on reversion of the land after the Sabbath year is complete.
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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.
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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),
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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,
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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.
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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.
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There 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I 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,
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Which truth the Lord brought forth to the gentile nations, and such perversion shall destroy the gentile nations.
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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.
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As 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Moroni 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.
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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.
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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.
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This 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.
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Thus, 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But that premature work only fulfilled other promises made of God to his people.
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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.
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Then 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.
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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.
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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.
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Therefore, 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.
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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.