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Reflections of the Gospel and the Blessings 9
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The 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.
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O 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.
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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.
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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.
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Thus, 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.
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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.
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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.
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I 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.
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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.
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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.
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A 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.
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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.
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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.
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For 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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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But this my covenant people did break mine everlasting covenant anew and they were destroyed thereby.
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For 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.
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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.
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For I will be merciful unto their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more.
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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.
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Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away.
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The 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.
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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.
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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;
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And these are they who shall be called forth that they may build a city called the New Jerusalem.
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And 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.
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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.
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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.
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Thus 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.
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And the desolate lands shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all gentiles that passed by.
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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.
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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.
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And 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.
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Yea, 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,
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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,
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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.
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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.
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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.
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In this people whose foundation shall be the Lord, it is written of God saying:
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All thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.