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BEHOLD, these things in their smallest, yea, even in their detail are but a forecast of that which is to come, for behold nation shall rise against nation until there is no safe place to hide, for you will hide in the clefts of the rocks and in your holes in the ground, and in your tunnels under your houses, even as I did, and you will be driven and hunted, and you will be hungry and sick and your little ones will fall by the sword, for you will of necessity kill or be killed, until there will be none left save a remnant, one here and two there to stagger and stumble, for the indignation of God will be poured out without mixture in every nation until the consumption decreed will make a full end of all nations and governments.
2
For the power of Godliness which holdeth off the destroyer is in the individual and when each one does suffer himself to be overcome so that there can be no integrity which bindeth the people together into lawful governments to protect the innocent ones, the destroyer is unleashed, and none but the power of God can stay his hand.
3
Therefore it will be with you like unto us, or the Jaredite nation, or any nation who suffers these evil combinations to get above them.
4a
And behold, he is already unleashed and these evil combinations are everywhere loosed except you learn to stand in holy places and be not moved. Ye cannot see them now, for there is yet integrity of individuals which holdeth them away and the Lord suffereth it to be so for yet a little season until your little and helpless ones are sealed up into the protection they need against the enemy;
4b
For behold this is the land of Joseph, and I have set my seal upon it, and it receiveth the promises of the Fathers unto the elect seed. But behold the devourer cometh as a whirlwind and claimeth his own and none who are separate and single and have not the protection of the Fathers can stand. For did not our Father, Nephi, behold all things even unto the last day? And did not my father write them? And do ye not have them before you?
5
Wherefore he saith, blessed are they who shall seek to bring forth my Zion at that day, for they shall have the gift and power of the Holy Ghost; and if they endure unto the end, they shall be lifted up at the last day.
6
And he saw the great mother of abominations gather together multitudes upon the face of all the earth, among all the nations of the Gentiles to fight against the Lamb of God. And the power of the Lamb of God descended upon the saints of the church of the Lamb and upon the covenant people of the Lord who were scattered upon all the face of the earth, and they were armed with righteousness and the power of God in great glory.
7
And now I say unto you, O ye nations, that the power of the Lamb of God is in the covenant of the Fathers; and the work of the Fathers cannot commence in power unless the Fathers do descend to bring you into oneness with them; and they cannot descend, unless your righteousness bring them down to you, for they are bound by law to leave your free agency inviolate, and without the protection of the Fathers ye cannot stand alone, for ye are caught in the devourer's net and he hath bound you and taken you and sealed you his.
8
Wherefore you need the sealing power of Elijah who is my faithful witness to bind you up and seal you against the evil day. And this power cometh not in standing alone, for ye can see that in my nation, that as long as we attempted to stand alone, even in the righteousness of the covenant of the Son of God, we were overcome, and the forces of the evil one did prevail and lay waste.
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For did I not say unto you and cause it to be written among you the words of Malachi, that I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord; and he shall turn the heart of the Fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their Fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse?
10
And now behold, if ye children who are on the earth turn not your hearts to the Fathers in heaven, how can their power come down from heaven to protect you and your little ones from the devourer which is loosed upon you? Behold, you will be wasted, and the desolating sickness will pass over you morning by morning until there be none left upon the land; for the whole earth is smitten with a curse, and none can save you except it be the power of the Fathers to seal you up.