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SECTION 29Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, in the presence of six elders, at Fayette, New York, September 1830. HC 1:111-115. This revelation was given some days prior to the conference beginning September 26, 1830. |
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9—11, His coming ushers in the Millennium; 12—13, The Twelve shall judge all Israel; 14—21, Signs, plagues, and desolations will precede the Second Coming; 22—28, The last resurrection and final judgment follow the Millennium; 29—35, All things are spiritual unto the Lord; 36—39, The devil and his hosts were cast out of heaven to tempt man; 40—45, Fall and atonement bring salvation; 46—50, Little children are redeemed through the atonement. | ||
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1 LISTEN to the voice of Jesus Christ,
your Redeemer, the Great aI Am, whose arm of
bmercy hath catoned for your sins;
2 Who will agather his people even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, even as many as will hearken to my voice and bhumble themselves before me, and call upon me in mighty prayer. 3 Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, that at this time your asins are bforgiven you, therefore ye receive these things; but remember to sin no more, lest perils shall come upon you. |
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4 Verily, I say unto you that ye are chosen out of the world to
declare my gospel with the sound of rejoicing, as with the
avoice of a trump.
5 Lift up your hearts and be aglad, for I am in your bmidst, and am your cadvocate with the Father; and it is his good will to give you the dkingdom. 6 And, as it is written—Whatsoever ye shall aask in bfaith, being cunited in prayer according to my command, ye shall receivea. |
6a Whatsoever ye shall ask in faith, being united in prayer according to my command, ye shall receive There is both much power in this and also much to be understood. Such elders of the kingdom who are gathered together and so united in mind and prayer, can work all the miracles of God by the power of God. This enables man, acting for and in behalf of God, according to the command of God, to perform all things by the power of God, which is expedient for the salvation and welfare of the children of God here upon this earth in this mortality. It is the power of heaven wrought upon the earth by this means. Yet there ought to be understood that it is not according to the mind and the will of such men that such should proceed to occur, but it is the mind and the will of God that will proceed upon earth according to the command of God. Faithful men united in faith and prayer are but the servants of God on earth, so performing the mind and will of God. It will not happen according to the mind and will of the men, but only as they are so prompted and guided by the spirit to so ask in faith. For if they ask amiss, not being guided by the spirit, the answer will be no, and no such miracle will occur. Yet the awsomeness of the power so endowed upon men to act in and according to the mind and will of God by the very power of God yeilds the power to bring a fallen world unto redemption and eternal life through the functioning of such power and priesthood of God bestowed upon men to so act faithfully in the name and according to the power of God upon the earth within this second estate. (Note: This is likely somewhat of the process which was performed when the leading council of the Church met together and considered the matter of extending the priesthood to all worthy males within the church. United in prayer, being guided by the spirit and by the faith of the brethren, such was received by God's command that it was now time for the priesthood to be extended to every worthy male member of the church regardless of nationality. The time of laying the foundation of Ephraim first to be established by whom the Covenant of Abraham is to be taken to the nations of the world that they may be blessed has now eventuated into so taking those blessings to all the world and to every nation, kindred, tongue and people. That advanced time is come.) | |
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7 And ye are called to bring to pass the
agathering of mine belect; for mine elect
chear my voice and dharden not their
ehearts;
8 Wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the Father that they shall be agathered in unto one place upon the face of this land, to bprepare their hearts and be prepared in all things against the day when ctribulation and desolation are sent forth upon the wicked. |
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9 For the hour is nigh and the aday soon at
hand when the earth is ripe; and all the bproud and they
that do wickedly shall be as cstubble; and I will
dburn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, that wickedness
shall not be upon the earth;
10 For the hour is nigh, and that which was aspoken by mine bapostles must be fulfilled; for as they spoke so shall it come to pass; 11 For I will reveal amyself from heaven with power and great glory, with all the bhosts thereof, and cdwell in drighteousness with men on earth a ethousand years, and the wicked shall not stand. |
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12 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you, and it hath gone
forth in a firm decree, by the will of the Father, that mine
aapostles, the Twelve which were with me in my ministry at
Jerusalem, shall stand at my right hand at the day of my coming in a pillar
of bfire, being clothed with robes of righteousness, with
crowns upon their heads, in cglory even as I am, to
djudge the whole house of Israel, even as many as have
loved me and kept my commandments, and none else.
13 For a atrump shall sound both long and loud, even as upon Mount Sinai, and all the bearth shall quake, and they shall ccome forth—yea, even the ddead which died in me, to receive a ecrown of righteousness, and to be clothed upon, feven as I am, to be with me, that we may be one. |
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14 But, behold, I say unto you that before this great
aday shall come the bsun shall be
cdarkened, and the moon shall be turned into blood, and the
stars shall fall from heaven, and there shall be greater
dsigns in heaven above and in the earth beneath;
15 And there shall be weeping and awailing among the hosts of men; 16 And there shall be a great ahailstorm sent forth to destroy the bcrops of the earth. |
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17 And it shall come to pass, because of the wickedness of the
world, that I will take avengeance upon the
bwicked, for they will not repent; for the
ccup of mine dindignation is full; for
behold, my eblood shall not fcleanse them
if they hear me not.
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18 Wherefore, I the Lord God will send forth
aflies upon the face of the earth, which shall take hold of
the inhabitants thereof, and shall eat their flesh, and shall cause maggots
to come in upon them;
19 And their tongues shall be stayed that they shall not autter against me; and their flesh shall fall from off their bones, and their eyes from their sockets; 20 And it shall come to pass that the abeasts of the forest and the fowls of the air shall devour them up. |
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21 And the great and aabominable church, which
is the bwhore of all the earth, shall be cast down by
cdevouring fire, according as it is spoken by the mouth of
Ezekiel the prophet, who spoke of these things, which have not come to pass
but surely dmust, as I live, for
eabominations shall not reign.
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22 And again, verily, verily, I say unto you that when the
athousand years are ended, and men again begin to deny
their God, then will I spare the earth but for a blittle
season;
23 And the aend shall come, and the heaven and the earth shall be consumed and bpass away, and there shall be a new heaven and a cnew earth. |
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24 For all aold things shall
bpass away, and all things shall become new, even the
heaven and the earth, and all the fulness thereof, both men and
cbeasts, the fowls of the air, and the fishes of the sea;
25 And not one ahair, neither mote, shall be lost, for it is the bworkmanship of mine hand. |
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26 But, behold, verily I say unto you, before the earth shall
pass away, aMichael, mine archangel, shall sound his
btrump, and then shall all the dead
cawake, for their graves shall be opened, and they shall
dcome forth—yea, even all.
27 And the arighteous shall be gathered on my bright hand unto eternal life; and the wicked on my left hand will I be ashamed to own before my Father; 28 Wherefore I will say unto them—aDepart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting bfire, prepared for the cdevil and his angels. |
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29 And now, behold, I say unto you, never at any time have I
declared from mine own mouth that they should return, for
awhere I am they cannot come, for they have no power.
30 But remember that all my judgments are not given unto men; and as the words have gone forth out of my mouth even so shall they be fulfilled, that the afirst shall be last, and that the last shall be first in all things whatsoever I have created by the word of my power, which is the power of my bSpirit. |
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31 For by the power of my Spirit acreated I
them; yea, all things both bspiritual and temporal—
31 aFirst bspiritual, secondly temporal, which is the beginning of my work; and again, first temporal, and secondly spiritual, which is the last of my work— 33 aSpeaking unto you that you may naturally understand; but unto myself my works have no bend, neither beginning; but it is given unto you that ye may understand, because ye have asked it of me and are agreed. |
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34 Wherefore, verily I say unto you that all things unto me are
spiritual, and not at any time have I given a alaw which
was btemporal; neither any man, nor the children of men;
neither Adam, your father, whom I created.
35 Behold, I gave unto him that he should be an aagent unto himself; and I gave him commandment, but no temporal commandment gave I unto him, for my bcommandments are cspiritual; they are not natural nor temporal, neither carnal nor sensual. |
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36 And it came to pass that Adam, being tempted of the
bdevil—for, behold, the bdevil was
before Adam, for he crebelled against me, saying, Give me
thine dhonor, which is my epower; and
also a fthird part of the ghosts of
heaven turned he away from me because of their hagency;
37 And they were thrust down, and thus came the adevil and his bangels; 38 And, behold, there is a place aprepared for them from the beginning, which place is bhell. 39 And it must needs be that the adevil should btempt the children of men, or they could not be cagents unto themselves; for if they never should have dbitter they could not know the sweet— |
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40 Wherefore, it came to pass that the devil tempted Adam, and
he partook of the forbidden afruit and
btransgressed the commandment, wherein he became
csubject to the will of the devil, because he yielded unto
temptation.
41 Wherefore, I, the Lord God, caused that he should be acast out from the Garden of bEden, from my prescence, because of his transgress, wherein he became cspiritually ddead, which is the first death, even that same death which is the last edeath, which is spiritual, which shall be pronounced upon the wicked when I shall say: Depart, ye fcursed. |
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42 But, behold, I say unto you that I, the Lord God, gave unto
Adam and unto his seed, that they should not adie as to the
temporal death, until I, the Lord God, should send forth
bangels to declare unto them crepentance
and dredemption, through faith on the name of mine
eOnly Begotten Son.
43 And thus did I, the Lord God, appoint unto man the days of his aprobation—that by his bnatural death he might be craised in dimmortality unto eternal life, even as many as would believe; 44 And they that believe not unto eternal adamnation; for they cannot be redeemed from their spiritual bfall, because they repent not; 45 For they love darkness rather than light, and their adeeds are evil, and they receive their bwages of cwhom they list to obey. |
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46 But behold, I say unto you, that little
achildren are bredeemed from the
foundation of the world through mine Only Begotten;
47 Wherefore, they cannot asin, for power is not given to Satan to btempt little children, until they cbegin to become daccountable before me; 48 For it is given unto them even as I will, according to mine own apleasure, that great things may be required at the hands of their bfathers. |
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49 And, again, I say unto you, that whoso having knowledge, have
I not commanded to arepent?
50 And he that hath no aunderstanding, it remaineth in me to do according as it is written. And now I declare no more unto you at this time. Amen.
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