A prophecy to the Church of Christ given the 6th. March 1831
Saying hearken O ye people of my Church to whom the kingdom has been given hearken ye & give ear to him who laid the foundation of the earth who made the heavens & all the hosts thereof & by whom all things were made which live & move & have a being & again I say hearken unto my voice lest death shall overtake you in an hour when you think not the summer shall be past & the harvest ended & your souls are not saved— listen to him who is your advocate with the Father who is pleading your cause before him saying Father behold the sufferings & death of him who did no sin in whom thou wast well pleased— behold the blood of thy son which was shed the blood of him whom thou gave that thyself might be glorified— wherefore Father spare these my brethren that believe on my name that they may come unto me & have everlasting life— Hearken O ye people of my church & ye Elders listen together & hear my voice whilst it is caled to day & harden not your hearts for verily I say unto you that I am Alpha & Omega the beginning & the end the light & the life of the world a light that shineth in darkness & the darkness comprehendeth it not I came unto my own & my men own received me not but unto as many as received me gave I power to do many miracles & to become the sons of God & even unto them that believed on my name gave I power to obtain eternal life & even so I have sent mine everlasting covenant into the world to be a light to the world & to be a standard for the people & for the Gentiles to seek to it & to be a messenger before my face to prepare the way before me wherefore come ye unto it— <and> with him that cometh I will reason as with men in days of old & I will shew unto you my strong reasoning wherefore hearken ye together & let me shew it unto you even my wisdom the wisdom of him whom ye say is the God of Enoch & his brethren who was seperated from the earth & was reserved unto myself a City reserved untill a day of righteousness shall come a day which was sought for by all holy men & <they> found it not because of wickedness & abominations & confessed that they were strangers & pilgrims on the earth but obtained a promise that they should find it & see it in their flesh wherefore hearken & I will reason with you & I will speak unto you & prophecy as unto men in days of old & I will shew it plainly as I shewed it unto my Disciples as I stood before them in the flesh & spoke unto them saying as ye have asked of me concerning these signs of my coming in the day when I shall come in my glory in the clouds of heaven to fulfill the promises that I have made unto your Fathers for as you have looked upon the long absence of your spirits from your bodies to be a bondage
I will shew unto you how the day of redemption shall come & also the restoration of the scattered Isreal & now ye behold this Temple which is in which ye call the house of God & your enemies say that this house shall never fall but verily I say unto you that desolation shall come upon this generation as a thief in the night & this people shall be destroyed & scattered among all nations & this Temple which ye now see shall be thrown down that there shall not be left one stone upon another & it shall come to pass that this generation of Jews shall not pass away untill every desolation which I have [p. [1 ]]