believe in Christ and deny him not; for by denying him, . also deny the prophets and the law. 29. And now behold I say unto you, That the right wa is to believe in Christ, and deny him not; and Christ is th Holy One of Israel: wherefore ye must bow down befo him, and worship him with all your might, mind, an strength, and your whole soul; and if ye do this ye shall i ro wise be cast out. 30. And, inasmuch as it shall be expedient. ye mus keep the performances and ordinances of God, until the la ghall be fulfilled which was given unto Moses. CHAPTER 26. 1. AND after Christ shall have risen from the dead, n shall "show himself unto you, my children, and my beloved brethren; and the words which he shall speak unto you shal; be the law which ye shall do. 2. For behold, I say unto you. That I have beheld tha many generations shall pass away and there shall be grea wars and contentions among my people. 3. And after the Messiah shall come, there shall be 'sign given unto my people of his birth, and also of his death and resurrection; and great and terrible shall that day be unto the wicked; for they shall perish; and they perish because they cast out the prophets, and the saints, and stone them, and slay them: wherefore the cry of the blood of the saints shall ascend up to God from the ground against them. 4. Wherefore all those who are proud, and that de wickedly, the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the Lord of Hosts, for they shall be as stubble ; 5. And they that kill the prophets, and the saints, the depths of the earth shall swallow them up, saith the Lord of Hosts; and mountains shall cover them, and whirlwinds shall carry them away, and buildings shall fall upon them. and crush them to pieces and grind them to powder; 6. And they shall be visited with thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquakes, and all manner of destructions, for the fire of the anger of the Lord shall be kindled against them, and they shall be as stubble, and the day that cometh shall consume them, saith the Lord of Hosts. 7. O the pain, and the anguish of my soul for the loss of the slain, of my people! For I, Nephi, have seen it, and it well nigh consumeth me before the presence of the Lord: but. I must cry unto my God, thy ways are just. 8. But behold, the righteous, that hearken unto the words of the prophets, and destroy them not, but look 2 a, ver. 9. 1. Nep. 11: 7. 12:6, See b, 1. Nep. 12. b, see a, 1. Nep. forward unto Christ with stedfastness for the signs which are given, notwithstanding all persecutions; behold they are they which shall not perish. 9. But the Son of righteousness shall appear unto them; and he shall heal them, and they shall have peace with him, until three generatious shall have passed away, and many of the fourth generation shall have passed away in righteousness. 10. And when these things have passed away, a speedy destruction cometh unto my people; for, notwithstanding the pains of my soul, I have seen it; wherefore, I know that it shall come to pass; and they sell themselves for naught: for, for the reward of their pride, and their foolishness, they shall reap destruction; for because they yield unto the devil, and choose works of darkness rather than light; therefore they must go down to hell; 11. For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive with man. And when the Spirit ceaseth to strive with man, then cometh speedy destruction, and this grieveth my soul. 12. And as 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; 13. And that he manifesteth himself unto all those who believe in him, by the power of the Holy Ghost; yea, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, working mighty miracles, signs, and wonders. among the children of men, according to their faith. 14. But behold, I prophesy unto you concerning the last days; concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these things forth unto the children of men. 15. After my seed and the seed of my brethren shall have dwindled in unbelief, and shall have been smitten by the Gentiles; yea, after the Lord God shall have camped against them round about, and shall have laid siege against them with a mount, and raised forts against them; and after they shall have been brought down low in the dust, even that they are not, yet the words of the righteous shall be written, and the prayers of the faithful shall be heard, and all those who have dwindled in unbelief, shall not be forgotten; 16. For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto them out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the dust, and their voice shall be as one that hath a familiar spirit; for the Lord God will give unto him power, that he may whisper concerning them, even as it were out of the ground; and their speech shall whisper out of the dust d, m. Nep. 9: 13. 10:12, 13. Alma 45: 10, 12. 9, see f, 11. Nep. 25. 1-3 Mor. 3:21. e, see b, I. Nep. 12. Hela. 13: 5, 9, 10. III. Nep. 27: 32. 14, 31. Mor. 5:15, 20. j, L Nep. 1, Isa. 29:4 JL Nep. 122 Mor. 6: 522 34-38, 42. 14: 12: 22, 23. 8: 17. For thus saith the Lord God: They shall write t things which shall be done among them, and they shall written and sealed up in a book, and those who ha dwindled in unbelief, shall not have them, for they seek destroy the things of God: 18. Wherefore, as those who have been destroyed, ha been destroyed speedily; and the "multitude of their terrib ones, shall be as chaff that passeth away. Yea, thus sai the Lord God: It shall be at an instant, suddenly. 19. And it shall come to pass, that those W have dwindled in unbelief, shall be smitten by the har of the Gentiles. 20. And the Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of the eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of the stumbling block, that they have built up many churche nevertheless, they put down the "power and miracles God, and preach up unto themselves their own wisdon and their own learning, that they may get 'gain, and grin upon the face of the poor; 21. And there are many churches built up which caus envyings, and strifes, and malice; 22. And there are also "secret combinations, even as i times of old, according to the combinations of the devil, fo he is the foundation of all these things; yea, the foundatio of murder, and works of darkness; yea, and he leadeth the by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he bindeth them wit his strong cords for ever. 23. For behold, my beloved brethren, I say unto you That the Lord God worketh not in darkness. 24. He doeth not anything, save it be for the benefit o the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layet down his' own life, that he may "draw all men unto him Wherefore he commandeth none that they shall not partak of his salvation. 25. Behold, doth he cry unto any, saying, Depart fro me? Behold, I say unto you, Nay; but he saith, Come unt me all ye ends of the earth, "buy milk and honey, withou money and without price. 26. Behold, hath he commanded any that they shoul depart out of the synagogues, or out of the houses o worship? Behold, I say unto you, Nay. 1 27. Hath he commanded any that they should no partake of his salvation? Behold I say unto you; Nay; bu he hath given it free for all men; and he hath commanded his people that they should persuade all men to repentance 28. Behold, hath the Lord commanded any that they in, Enos 1: 14. P, L. Nep. 13: 29, 34. Mor. 8: 25-41. 33-38. Mor. 6: 6. r, II. Nep. n, Isa. 29: 5. Mor. 6: 6-15. 0, see j q, 1. Nep.14: 9, 10. 22: 23. II. Nep. 28. 28: 5, 6. Mor. 8: 26. 9:7-26. Moro. 7: 8, II.. Nep. 28: 4. t, 1. Nep. 22: 23. II. Nep. 28:12, 13. Mor 8:, 28, 32, 33, 36-39. u, see i, II. Nep. 10. . v, see c. IL Nep. 9. to, Isa. 55: 1. should not partake of his goodness? Behold I say unto you, Nay; but all men are privileged the one like unto the other, and none are forbidden. 29. He commandeth that there shall be no priest-crafts; for, behold, *priest-crafts are that men preach and set themselves up for a light unto the world, that they may get gain, and praise of the world; but they seek not the welfare of Zion. 30. Behold, the Lord hath forbidden this thing; wherefore, the Lord God hath given a commandment, that all men should have charity, which "charity is love. And except they should have charity they were nothing: wherefore, if they should have charity they would not suffer the labourer in Zion to perish. 31. But the labourer in Zion, shall labour for Zion; for if they labour for money, they shall perish. 32. And again, the Lord God hath commanded that men should not murder; that they should not lie; that they should not steal; that they should not take the name of the Lord their God in vain; that they should not envy; that they should not have malice; that they should not contend one with another; that they should not commit whoredoms; and that they should do none of these things; for whoso doeth them, shall perish; 33. For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be 'plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him, and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen, and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile. CHAPTER 27. 1. BUT, behold, in the last days, or in the days of the Gentiles; yea, behold all the nations of the Gentiles, and also the Jews, both those who shall come upon this land, and those who shall be upon other lands; yea, even upon all the lands of the earth; behold, they will be "drunken with iniquity, and all manner of abominations; 2. And when that day shall come, they shall be 'visited of the Lord of Hosts, with thunder, and with earthquake, and with a great noise, and with storm, and with tempest, and with the flame of devouring fire; 3. And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea, it III. Nep. 21:19-21 4, vers. 23, 24. 4, Isa 29: 9. 29:4-9. 30 ch. Isa. 29: 6-10. y, Moro. 7: 47, 48. 8: 26 shall be unto them, even as unto a nungry man, dreameth, and behold he eateth, but he awaketh and soul is empty; or like unto a thirsty man, which dream and behold he drinketh, but he awaketh, and behold h faint, and his soul hath appetite: yea, even so shall multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mo Zion: 4. For behold, all ye that do iniquity, stay yourselves a wonder, for ye shall cry out, and cry; yea, ye shall drunken, but not with wine, ye shall stagger, but not w strong drink : 5. For behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you t spirit of deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your ey and ye have rejected the prophets; and your rulers, and t seers hath he covered because of your iniquity. 6. And it shall come to pass, that the Lord God sh bring forth unto you the words of a book, and they shall the words of them which have slumbered. 7. And behold the book shall be sealed: and in t book shall be a revelation from God, from the beginning the world to the ending thereof. 8. Wherefore, because of the things which are seal up, the things which are sealed shall not be delivered the day of the wickedness and abominations of the peop Wherefore the book shall be kept from them. 9. But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and shall deliver the words of the book, which are the wor of those who have slumbered in the dust; and he sha deliver these words unto "another; 10. But the words which are sealed he shall not delive neither shall he deliver the book. For the book shall t sealed by the power of God, and the revelation which wa sealed shall be kept in the book until the own 'du time of the Lord, that they may come forth for behold they reveal all things from the foundation of the worl unto the end thereof. 11. And the day cometh that the words of the boo which were sealed shall be read upon the house tops; an they shall be read by the power of Christ: and all thing shall be revealed unto the children of men which eve have been among the children of men, and which ever wil be, even unto the end of the earth. 12. Wherefore, at that day when the book shall b delivered unto the 'man of whom I have spoken, the book shall be hid from the eyes of the world, that the eyes o none shall behold it save it be that "three witnesses shal behold it, by the power of God, besides him to whom the Enos 1: 13-18. c, I. Nep. 13: 34, 35, 39-42. II. Nep. 3: 6-23. 26: 16, 17. 29:11. Mor. 5: 12, 13. 8: 14-16, 25-32. d, Isa. 29: 11. f, Ether 4:6, 7. g, Joseph Smith, Jr. h, Martin j, Ether 4: 15. k, Ether 4: 6, 7, 13-17. e, Ether 4: 1-7. Harris. i, Ether 4: 7, 15. 1, Joseph Smith, Jr. m, see c, IL. Nep. 11. |