Revelation, 24 February 1834, as Recorded in Richards, Pocket Companion [D&C 103]
Source Note
Revelation, , Geauga Co., OH, 24 Feb. 1834. Version copied [not before 8 August 1839] in Richards, “W. Richards Pocket Companion Written in England,” pp. 31–37; handwriting of ; Willard Richards, Journals and Papers, CHL.
as salt that hath lost its savor & is thenceforth good for nothing but to be cast out & <be> trodden under foot of men but verily I say unto you I have decreed that your brethren which have been scattered shall return to the lands of their & build up the waste places of for after much tribulation as I have said unto you in a former cometh the blessing which I have promised after your tribulations & the tribulations of your brethren your Redemption & the Redemption of your brethren even their Redemption to the Land of to be established no more to be thrown down. Nevertheless if they shall pollute their inheritance they shall be thrown down for I will not spare them if they pollute their inheritance. Behold I say unto you that the redemption of must needs come of power, therefore I will raise up unto my people a man who shall lead them like as Moses led the Children of Israel for ye are the Children of Israel of the seed of Abraham & ye must needs be led out of bondage by power & with an out-stretched arm, “even [p. 33]