Vision, 16 February 1832, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 76]
Source Note
“The Vision,” [, Portage Co., OH, 16 Feb. 1832]. Version copied [ca. Apr. 1832] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [63]–[75]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].
sanctify the world & to clean it from all unrighteousness, that through him all might be saved whom the Father had put into his power & who were made by him who glorifieth the Father & saveth all the work of his hands, except those sons of perdition who denyeth the son after the Father hath revealed him— wherefore he saveth all except them, who shall go away into everlasting Punishment which is endless punishment which is eternal punishment to reign with the Devil & his Angels throughout eternity, where their worm dieth not & the fire is not quenched which is their torment, but the end thereof, neither the place thereof & their torment no man knoweth, neither was it revealed, neither is, nor will be revealed unto man save to them who are made partakers thereof, nevertheless I the Lord sheweth it by vision unto many, but straightway shutteth it up again, wherefore the end, the width, the height, the depth & the misery thereof he understandeth not, neither any man save them who are unto this condemnation, & we saw heard the voice saying write the vision for lo this is the end of the vision of the eternal sufferings of the ungodly.—"—"—
And again we bear record for we saw & heard [p. [67]]