The Collected Works. Joseph Smith Jr.

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      ⁶⁹ Remember the great and last promise which I have made unto you; cast away your idle thoughts and your excess of laughter far from you.

      ⁷⁰ Tarry ye, tarry ye in this place, and call a solemn assembly, even of those who are the first laborers in this last kingdom.

      ⁷¹ And let those whom they have warned in their traveling call on the Lord, and ponder the warning in their hearts which they have received, for a little season.

      ⁷² Behold, and lo, I will take care of your flocks, and will raise up elders and send unto them.

      ⁷³ Behold, I will hasten my work in its time.

      ⁷⁴ And I give unto you, who are the first laborers in this last kingdom, a commandment that you assemble yourselves together, and organize yourselves, and prepare yourselves, and sanctify yourselves; yea, purify your hearts, and cleanse your hands and your feet before me, that I may make you clean;

      ⁷⁵ That I may testify unto your Father, and your God, and my God, that you are clean from the blood of this wicked generation; that I may fulfil this promise, this great and last promise, which I have made unto you, when I will.

      ⁷⁶ Also, I give unto you a commandment that ye shall continue in prayer and fasting from this time forth.

      ⁷⁷ And I give unto you a commandment that you shall teach one another the doctrine of the kingdom.

      ⁷⁸ Teach ye diligently and my grace shall attend you, that you may be instructed more perfectly in theory, in principle, in doctrine, in the law of the gospel, in all things that pertain unto the kingdom of God, that are expedient for you to understand;

      ⁷⁹ Of things both in heaven and in the earth, and under the earth; things which have been, things which are, things which must shortly come to pass; things which are at home, things which are abroad; the wars and the perplexities of the nations, and the judgments which are on the land; and a knowledge also of countries and of kingdoms

      ⁸⁰ That ye may be prepared in all things when I shall send you again to magnify the calling whereunto I have called you, and the mission with which I have commissioned you.

      ⁸¹ Behold, I sent you out to testify and warn the people, and it becometh every man who hath been warned to warn his neighbor.

      ⁸² Therefore, they are left without excuse, and their sins are upon their own heads.

      ⁸³ He that seeketh me early shall find me, and shall not be forsaken.

      ⁸⁴ Therefore, tarry ye, and labor diligently, that you may be perfected in your ministry to go forth among the Gentiles for the last time, as many as the mouth of the Lord shall name, to bind up the law and seal up the testimony, and to prepare the saints for the hour of judgment which is to come;

      ⁸⁵ That their souls may escape the wrath of God, the desolation of abomination which awaits the wicked, both in this world and in the world to come. Verily, I say unto you, let those who are not the first elders continue in the vineyard until the mouth of the Lord shall call them, for their time is not yet come; their garments are not clean from the blood of this generation.

      ⁸⁶ Abide ye in the liberty wherewith ye are made free; entangle not yourselves in sin, but let your hands be clean, until the Lord comes.

      ⁸⁷ For not many days hence and the earth shall tremble and reel to and fro as a drunken man; and the sun shall hide his face, and shall refuse to give light; and the moon shall be bathed in blood; and the stars shall become exceedingly angry, and shall cast themselves down as a fig that falleth from off a fig-tree.

      ⁸⁸ And after your testimony cometh wrath and indignation upon the people.

      ⁸⁹ For after your testimony cometh the testimony of earthquakes, that shall cause groanings in the midst of her, and men shall fall upon the ground and shall not be able to stand.

      ⁹⁰ And also cometh the testimony of the voice of thunderings, and the voice of lightnings, and the voice of tempests, and the voice of the waves of the sea heaving themselves beyond their bounds.

      ⁹¹ And all things shall be in commotion; and surely, men's hearts shall fail them; for fear shall come upon all people.

      ⁹² And angels shall fly through the midst of heaven, crying with a loud voice, sounding the trump of God, saying: Prepare ye, prepare ye, O inhabitants of the earth; for the judgment of our God is come. Behold, and lo, the Bridegroom cometh; go ye out to meet him.

      ⁹³ And immediately there shall appear a great sign in heaven, and all people shall see it together.

      ⁹⁴ And another angel shall sound his trump, saying: That great church, the mother of abominations, that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, that persecuteth the saints of God, that shed their bloodshe who sitteth upon many waters, and upon the islands of the seabehold, she is the tares of the earth; she is bound in bundles; her bands are made strong, no man can loose them; therefore, she is ready to be burned. And he shall sound his trump both long and loud, and all nations shall hear it.

      ⁹⁵ And there shall be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour; and immediately after shall the curtain of heaven be unfolded, as a scroll is unfolded after it is rolled up, and the face of the Lord shall be unveiled;

      ⁹⁶ And the saints that are upon the earth, who are alive, shall be quickened and be caught up to meet him.

      ⁹⁷ And they who have slept in their graves shall come forth, for their graves shall be opened; and they also shall be caught up to meet him in the midst of the pillar of heaven

      ⁹⁸ They are Christ's, the first fruits, they who shall descend with him first, and they who are on the earth and in their graves, who are first caught up to meet him; and all this by the voice of the sounding of the trump of the angel of God.

      ⁹⁹ And after this another angel shall sound, which is the second trump; and then cometh the redemption of those who are Christ's at his coming; who have received their part in that prison which is prepared for them, that they might receive the gospel, and be judged according to men in the flesh.

      ¹⁰⁰ And again, another trump shall sound, which is the third trump; and then come the spirits of men who are to be judged, and are found under condemnation;

      ¹⁰¹ And these are the rest of the dead; and they live not again until the thousand years are ended, neither again, until the end of the earth.

      ¹⁰² And another trump shall sound, which is the fourth trump, saying: There are found among those who are to remain until that great and last day, even the end, who shall remain filthy still.

      ¹⁰³ And another trump shall sound, which is the fifth trump, which is the fifth angel who committeth the everlasting gospelflying through the midst of heaven, unto all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people;

      ¹⁰⁴ And this shall be the sound of his trump, saying to all people, both in heaven and in earth, and that are under the earthfor every ear shall hear it, and every knee shall bow, and every tongue shall confess, while they hear the sound of the trump, saying: Fear God, and give glory to him who sitteth upon the throne, forever and ever; СКАЧАТЬ