Revelation, 30 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 63]
Source Note
Revelation, , Geauga Co., OH, 30 Aug. 1831. Version copied [ca. Oct. 1831] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [45]–[54]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].
behold you are blessed, & if by blood as ye are forbidden to shed blood, lo, your enemies are upon you, & ye shall be scourged from City to City & from Synagogue to Synagogue & but few shall stand to receive an inheritance, I the Lord am angry with the wicked, I am holding my Spirit from the inhabitants of the earth*, I have sworn in my wrath & decreed wars upon the face of the earth, & the wicked shall slay the wicked & fear shall come upon every man & the saints also shall hardly escape, nevertheless I the Lord am with them & will come down in Heaven from the presence of God & consume the wicked with unquenchable fire, & behold this is not yet but by & by
Wherefore seeing that I the Lord have decreed all these things upon the face of the earth, I willeth that my should be assembled upon the Land of & that every man should take righteousness in his hands & faithfulness upon his loins & lift a warning voice unto the inhabitants of the earth & declare both by word & by flight, that desolation shall come upon the wicked— Wherefore let my