Post by Nephi –
In my previous post entitled “His Name will be Jesus Christ,” I declared;
In this post, I want to actually preach and prophesy of Christ.
After Christ has risen from the dead He will show himself to you, my children, and my beloved brethren; and the words which He will speak to you will be the law which you need to observe. I tell you that I have beheld that many generations will pass away, and there will be great wars and contentions among my people.
After the Messiah has come to His people in the Land of Jerusalem, there will be signs given to my people here in the promised land, of his birth and also of his death and resurrection; and great and terrible will that day be for the wicked, they will 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 will ascend up to God from the ground against them.
They will be visited with thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquakes, and all manner of destructions, for the fire of the anger of the Lord will be kindled against them, and they will be as stubble, and the day that comes will consume them.
These are my descendants of whom the Lord testifies. You can’t possibly understand how painful this is to my soul, but I have seen it and it practically consumes me before the Lord, but I have to admit, God’s ways are just.
Yet, the righteous that hearken to the words of the prophets, and don’t destroy them, but look forward to Christ with steadfastness for the signs which are given, notwithstanding all persecution—behold, they are they who will not perish. The Son of righteousness will appear to them; and He will heal them, and they will have peace with Him, until three generations will have passed away, and many of the fourth generation will have passed away in righteousness. So for many of my righteous posterity, there is great hope!
But once all this has passed away and they reject the spirit, a speedy destruction will come to my people; for, notwithstanding the pains of my soul, I have seen it; wherefore, I know that it will come to pass; and they sell themselves for worthless things and for the reward of their pride and their foolishness they will reap destruction; and because they yield to the devil and choose works of darkness rather than light, therefore they must go down to hell.
I spoke about the convincing of the Jews, that Jesus is the very Christ. The Gentiles must also be convinced that Jesus is the Christ, the Eternal God; and that He manifests Himself to all those who believe in Him, by the power of the Holy Ghost; He manifests Himself to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, working mighty miracles, signs, and wonders, among the children of men according to their faith. I prophesy to you concerning the last days; concerning the days when the Lord God will bring these things forth unto the children of men.
Isaiah also saw this future day. He too saw that after my posterity and the posterity of my brethren will have dwindled in unbelief, and will have been smitten by the Gentiles; And, after the Lord God will 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. In other words, the posterity of my brothers and my posterity will practically be wiped out, yet their earlier record, their words will be preserved.
For those who have been destroyed will speak unto those remnants of our seed out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the dust, and their voice will 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.
Let me tell you how they will speak from the dust. They will write the things which happen among them, and they will be written and sealed up in a book, and those who have dwindled in unbelief will not have them, because they seek to destroy the things of God. I will talk more about this book later. Let me set the stage for the coming forth of this book.
A great destruction will take place among my people at the hands of those who have dwindled in unbelief. These survivors who have rejected the Lord God, will be smitten by the hand of the Gentiles. The Gentiles will be used by God but they too have perverted His truths.
The Gentiles are lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and have stumbled, because of the greatness of their stumbling block, that they have built up many churches; nevertheless, they put down the power and miracles of God, and preach up unto themselves their own wisdom and their own learning, that they may get gain and grind upon the face of the poor. And there are many churches built up which cause envyings, and strifes, and malice. And there are also secret combinations, even as 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 leads them by the neck with a flaxen cord, until he binds them with his strong cords forever.
These Gentiles are not following the Lord God. The Lord God does not work in darkness. He doesn’t do anything unless it is for the benefit of the world. He loves the world, even to laying down His own life so He can draw all men unto Him. He does not leave anyone out of His command, His invitation and His pleading to come to Him and partake of His salvation.
Does He say, “Depart from me” NO! He says, “Come unto me all ye ends of the earth, buy milk and honey, without money and without price.
Does He command any that they should not partake of His goodness? Certainly not. All men are privileged alike and none are forbidden.
He does command that there should be no priestcrafts. Priestcrafts are where men preach and set themselves up for a light to the world, so they can get gain and praise of the world, but they don’t seek for the welfare of Zion. He has clearly forbidden this. The Lord God has given a commandment that all men should have charity, which charity is love. And unless they have charity they are nothing. Therefore if they have charity they won’t suffer the laborer in Zion to perish. I am actually going to discuss this in detail in my next post. This can easily be misunderstood, but let me state it here “The laborer in Zion shall labor for Zion; for if they labor for money they shall perish.”
Permit me to continue. The Lord God has 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 with each other; that they should not commit whoredoms; and that they should do none of these things; “for whoso doeth them shall perish.”
We know that none of these iniquities come of the Lord; He only does that which is good among the children of men; and He does nothing except it is plain to the children of men; and He invits them all to come unto Him and partake of His goodness; and He denies nobody that comes unto Him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and He remembers the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.
