Exact Word Count yet from the knowledge of other nations; for behold, many nations would overrun the land, that there would be no place for an inheritance. those whom the Lord God shall bring out of the land of Jerusalem shall keep his commandments, they shall prosper upon the face of this land; and they shall be kept from all other nations, that they may possess this land unto themselves. And if it so be that they shall keep his commandments they shall be blessed upon the face of this land, and there shall be none to molest them, nor to take away the land of their inheritance; and they shall dwell safely forever. one generation passeth to another there shall be bloodsheds, and great visitations among them; wherefore, my sons, I would that ye would remember; yea, I would that ye would hearken unto my words. ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; but inasmuch ass=hlgree>as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my presence. the sharpness of the power of the word of God, which wass=hlblue>as in him; and that which ye call anger wass=hlblue>as the truth, according to that which is in God, which he could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your iniquities. not he, but it wass=hlblue>as the Spirit of the Lord which wass=hlblue>as in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not shut it. they unto whom he shall minister in the flesh; for the Spirit is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And the way is prepared from the fall of man, and salvation is free. he shall make intercession for all the children of men; and they that believe in him shall be saved. dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility. an opposition; even the forbidden fruit in opposition to the tree of life; the one being sweet and the other bitter. enticed by the one or the other. evil before God. God, knowing good and evil. lengthened, according to the commandments which the Lord God gave unto the children of men. For he gave commandment that all men must repent; for he showed unto all men that they were lost, because of the transgression of their parents. carried captive into Egypt. And great were the covenants of the Lord which he made unto Joseph. to be broken off, nevertheless, to be remembered in the covenants of the Lord that the Messiah should be made manifest unto them in the latter days, in the spirit of power, unto the bringing of them out of darkness unto light-- yea, out of hidden darkness and out of captivity unto freedom. I am sure of the promise of Moses; for the Lord hath said unto me, I will preserve thy seed forever. if the fruit of thy loins had cried unto them from the dust; for I know their faith. carried into Egypt. ye shall keep my commandments ye shall prosper in the land; and inasmuch ass=hlgree>as ye will not keep my commandments ye shall be cut off from my presence. in him, he waxed old. And it came to pass that he died, and wass=hlblue>as buried. constrained to speak unto them, according to his word; for I had spoken many things unto them, and also my father, before his death; many of which sayings are written upon mine other plates; for a more history part are written upon mine other plates. bidden that I should not write them. keth. Yea, my God will give me, if I ass=hlblue>ask not amiss; therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God, the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice shall forever ass=hlblue>ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God. Amen. with us; and we did prosper exceedingly; for we did sow seed, and we did reap again in abundance. And we began to raise flocks, and herds, and animals of every kind. prepared for my father by the hand of the Lord, according to that which is written. like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof wass=hlblue>as exceedingly fine. desirous that they should have no king; nevertheless, I did for them according to that which wass=hlblue>as in my power. fulfilled which he spake unto me, saying that: Inasmuch ass=hlgree>as they will not hearken unto thy words they shall be cut off from the presence of the Lord. And behold, they were cut off from his presence. they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. done. upon them they did become an idle people, full of mischief and subtlety, and did seek in the wilderness for beasts of prey. they will not remember me, and hearken unto my words, they shall scourge them even unto destruction. a king or a protector, and on whom ye depend for safety, behold ye know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many things. been. For I have exhorted you with all diligence; and I have taught you the words of my father; and I have spoken unto you concerning all things which are written, from the creation of the world. desired that I should speak unto you. And I speak unto you for your sakes, that ye may learn and glorify the name of your God. hamed that wait for me. shown me that those who were at Jerusalem, from whence we came, have been slain and carried away captive. shown unto me that they should return again. And he also hass=hlblue>as shown unto me that the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel, should manifest himself unto them in the flesh; and after he should manifest himself they should scourge him and crucify him, according to the words of the angel who spake it unto me. written; for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants which he hass=hlblue>as made unto his children; and for this cause the prophet hass=hlblue>as written these things. hamed. For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah. with sweet wine; and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Savior and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob. no man; when I called, yea, there wass=hlblue>as none to answer. O house of Israel, is my hand shortened at all that it cannot redeem, or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make their rivers a wilderness and their fish to stink because the waters are dried up, and they die because of thirst. the learned. not rebellious, neither turned away back. hamed. a garment, and the moth shall eat them up. in the ancient days. Art thou not he that hath cut Rahab, and wounded the dragon? if he were ready to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor? a wild bull in a net, they are full of the fury of the Lord, the rebuke of thy God. the ground and ass=hlgree>as the street to them that went over. covenanted with all the house of Israel-- spoken unto the Jews, by the mouth of his holy prophets, even from the beginning down, from generation to generation, until the time comes that they shall be restored to the true church and fold of God; when they shall be gathered home to the lands of their inheritance, and shall be established in all their lands of promise. death hath passed upon all men, to fulfil the merciful plan of the great Creator, there must needs be a power of resurrection, and the resurrection must needs come unto man by reason of the fall; and the fall came by reason of transgression; and because man became fallen they were cut off from the presence of the Lord. they have become immortal, they must appear before the judgment-seat of the Holy One of Israel; and then cometh the judgment, and then must they be judged according to the holy judgment of God. suredly, ass=hlgree>as the Lord liveth, for the Lord God hath spoken it, and it is his eternal word, which cannot pass away, that they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and they who are filthy shall be filthy still; wherefore, they who are filthy are the devil and his angels; and they shall go away into everlasting fire, prepared for them; and their torment is ass=hlgree>as a lake of fire and brimstone, whose flame ass=hlblue>ascendeth up forever and ever and hass=hlblue>as no end. prepared for them from the foundation of the world, and their joy shall be full forever. spoken it. given a law; and where there is no law given there is no punishment; and where there is no punishment there is no condemnation; and where there is no condemnation the mercies of the Holy One of Israel have claim upon them, because of the atonement; for they are delivered by the power of him. the law given, yea, that hass=hlblue>as all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state! ide, supposing they know of themselves, wherefore, their wisdom is foolishness and it profiteth them not. And they shall perish. to the things of the world. For because they are rich they despise the poor, and they persecute the meek, and their hearts are upon their treasures; wherefore, their treasure is their god. And behold, their treasure shall perish with them also. ye are not holy, and ye look upon me ass=hlgree>as a teacher, it must needs be expedient that I teach you the consequences of sin. promised unto us that our seed shall not utterly be destroyed, according to the flesh, but that he would preserve them; and in future generations they shall become a righteous branch unto the house of Israel. it hass=hlblue>as been shown unto me that many of our children shall perish in the flesh because of unbelief, nevertheless, God will be merciful unto many; and our children shall be restored, that they may come to that which will give them the true knowledge of their Redeemer. I said unto you, it must needs be expedient that Christ-- for in the last night the angel spake unto me that this should be his name-- should come among the Jews, among those who are the more wicked part of the world; and they shall crucify him-- for thus it behooveth our God, and there is none other nation on earth that would crucify their God. given us so great knowledge concerning these things, let us remember him, and lay ass=hlblue>aside our sins, and not hang down our heads, for we are not cast off; nevertheless, we have been driven out of the land of our inheritance; but we have been led to a better land, for the Lord hass=hlblue>as made the sea our path, and we are upon an isle of the sea. it says isles, there must needs be more than this, and they are inhabited also by our brethren. led away from time to time from the house of Israel, according to his will and pleasure. And now behold, the Lord remembereth all them who have been broken off, wherefore he remembereth us also. I have seen him. seen him ass=hlgree>as I have seen him; wherefore, I will send their words forth unto my children to prove unto them that my words are true. Wherefore, by the words of three, God hath said, I will establish my word. Nevertheless, God sendeth more witnesses, and he proveth all his words. tray, every one to his wicked ways. Sodom, and they cannot hide it. Wo unto their souls, for they have rewarded evil unto themselves! they go, and making a tinkling with their feet-- semblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for upon all the glory of Zion shall be a defence. it were with a cart rope; the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, their root shall be rottenness, and their blossoms shall go up ass=hlgree>as dust; because they have cast away the law of the Lord of Hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel. filled with smoke. touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged. a teil tree, and ass=hlgree>as an oak whose substance is in them when they cast their leaves; so the holy seed shall be the substance thereof. told the house of David, saying: Syria is confederate with Ephraim. And his heart wass=hlblue>as moved, and the heart of his people, ass=hlgree>as the trees of the wood are moved with the wind. k thee a sign of the Lord thy God; ass=hlblue>ask it either in the depths, or in the heights above. k, neither will I tempt the Lord. syria. syria. syria, the head, and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard. syria. this people refuseth the waters of Shiloah that go softly, and rejoice in Rezin and Remaliah's son; syria and all his glory; and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks. sociate yourselves, O ye people, and ye shall be broken in pieces; and give ear all ye of far countries; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces; gird yourselves, and ye shall be broken in pieces. wass=hlblue>as in her vexation, when at first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun, and the land of Naphtali, and afterwards did more grievously afflict by the way of the Red Sea beyond Jordan in Galilee of the nations. men rejoice when they divide the spoil. the fire; it shall devour the briers and thorns, and shall kindle in the thickets of the forests, and they shall mount up like the lifting up of smoke. the fuel of the fire; no man shall spare his brother. syrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is their indignation. Carchemish? Is not Hamath ass=hlgree>as Arpad? Is not Samaria ass=hlgree>as Damascus? my hand hath founded the kingdoms of the idols, and whose graven images did excel them of Jerusalem and of Samaria; I have done unto Samaria and her idols, so do to Jerusalem and to her idols? syria, and the glory of his high looks. a nest the riches of the people; and ass=hlgree>as one gathereth eggs that are left have I gathered all the earth; and there wass=hlblue>as none that moved the wing, or opened the mouth, or peeped. if the rod should shake itself against them that lift it up, or ass=hlgree>as if the staff should lift up itself ass=hlgree>as if it were no wood! when a standard-bearer fainteth. are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them, but shall stay upon the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, in truth. the sand of the sea, yet a remnant of them shall return; the consumption decreed shall overflow with righteousness. syrian; he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt. his rod wass=hlblue>as upon the sea so shall he lift it up after the manner of Egypt. yet shall he remain at Nob that day; he shall shake his hand against the mount of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem. p, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. the waters cover the sea. syria, and from Egypt, and from Pathros, and from Cush, and from Elam, and from Shinar, and from Hamath, and from the islands of the sea. semble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth. syria, like ass=hlgree>as it wass=hlblue>as to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt. become my salvation. of a great people, a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations gathered together, the Lord of Hosts mustereth the hosts of the battle. a destruction from the Almighty. flames. the chased roe, and ass=hlgree>as a sheep that no man taketh up; and they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land. when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. we? Art thou become like unto us? cend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north; cend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the Most High. a wilderness, and destroyed the cities thereof, and opened not the house of his prisoners? a carcass trodden under feet. I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and ass=hlgree>as I have purposed, so shall it stand-- syrian in my land, and upon my mountains tread him under foot; then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. this burden. one generation hath been destroyed among the Jews because of iniquity, even so have they been destroyed from generation to generation according to their iniquities; and never hath any of them been destroyed save it were foretold them by the prophets of the Lord. many ass=hlgree>as will believe on his name, behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church. rejected by them; and unto the convincing of them that they need not look forward any more for a Messiah to come, for there should not any come, save it should be a false Messiah which should deceive the people; for there is save one Messiah spoken of by the prophets, and that Messiah is he who should be rejected of the Jews. the Lord God liveth that brought Israel up out of the land of Egypt, and gave unto Moses power that he should heal the nations after they had been bitten by the poisonous serpents, if they would cast their eyes unto the serpent which he did raise up before them, and also gave him power that he should smite the rock and the water should come forth; yea, behold I say unto you, that ass=hlgree>as these things are true, and ass=hlgree>as the Lord God liveth, there is none other name given under heaven save it be this Jesus Christ, of which I have spoken, whereby man can be saved. long ass=hlgree>as the earth should stand. long ass=hlgree>as the earth shall stand; and they shall go according to the will and pleasure of God; and the nations who shall possess them shall be judged of them according to the words which are written. the law given; wherefore the law hath become dead unto us, and we are made alive in Christ because of our faith; yet we keep the law because of the commandments. given. And after the law is fulfilled in Christ, that they need not harden their hearts against him when the law ought to be done away. a testimony against you; for they are sufficient to teach any man the right way; for the right way is to believe in Christ and deny him not; for by denying him ye also deny the prophets and the law. it shall be expedient, ye must keep the performances and ordinances of God until the law shall be fulfilled which wass=hlblue>as given unto Moses. cend up to God from the ground against them. stubble. stubble, and the day that cometh shall consume them, saith the Lord of Hosts. I spake concerning the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ, it must needs be that the Gentiles be convinced also that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God; one that hath a familiar spirit; for the Lord God will give unto him power, that he may whisper concerning them, even ass=hlgree>as it were out of the ground; and their speech shall whisper out of the dust. those who have been destroyed have been destroyed speedily; and the multitude of their terrible ones shall be ass=hlgree>as chaff that passeth away-- yea, thus saith the Lord God: It shall be at an instant, suddenly-- in times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, for he is the founder of all these things; yea, the founder of murder, and works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them with his strong cords forever. a dream of a night vision; yea, it shall be unto them, even ass=hlgree>as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like unto a thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite; yea, even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion. sealed shall be kept in the book until the own due time of the Lord, that they may come forth; for behold, they reveal all things from the foundation of the world unto the end thereof. if it were from the dead. many witnesses ass=hlgree>as seemeth him good will he establish his word; and wo be unto him that rejecteth the word of God! this people draw near unto me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their hearts far from me, and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men-- the potter's clay. But behold, I will show unto them, saith the Lord of Hosts, that I know all their works. For shall the work say of him that made it, he made me not? Or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, he had no understanding? a forest. suredly ass=hlgree>as the Lord liveth they shall see that the terrible one is brought to naught, and the scorner is consumed, and all that watch for iniquity are cut off; ide the just for a thing of naught. hamed, neither shall his face now wax pale. the Spirit hath constrained me; wherefore, I know that they must surely come to pass. tray save it be a few, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men. ide the just for a thing of naught and revile against that which is good, and say that it is of no worth! For the day shall come that the Lord God will speedily visit the inhabitants of the earth; and in that day that they are fully ripe in iniquity they shall perish. many of the Gentiles ass=hlgree>as will repent are the covenant people of the Lord; and ass=hlgree>as many of the Jews ass=hlgree>as will not repent shall be cast off; for the Lord covenanteth with none save it be with them that repent and believe in his Son, who is the Holy One of Israel. had among their fathers. many ass=hlgree>as shall believe in Christ shall also become a delightsome people. p, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice's den. the waters cover the sea. k of you, my beloved brethren, wherein the Lamb of God did fulfil all righteousness in being baptized by water? holy? But notwithstanding he being holy, he showeth unto the children of men that, according to the flesh he humbleth himself before the Father, and witnesseth unto the Father that he would be obedient unto him in keeping his commandments. baptized with water the Holy Ghost descended upon him in the form of a dove. k if all is done? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; for ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save. k not, neither do ye knock; wherefore, ye are not brought into the light, but must perish in the dark. plain ass=hlgree>as word can be. things of naught. of great worth, and especially unto my people. For I pray continually for them by day, and mine eyes water my pillow by night, because of them; and I cry unto my God in faith, and I know that he will hear my cry. the voice of one crying from the dust: Farewell until that great day shall come. |