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AND Behold did not Jesus tell our fathers with His own mouth that the work of the Father would commence amongst all nations to the preservation of our souls, both temporally and spiritually? But first spiritual and then temporally, which is the beginning of the work, and again, first temporally and then spiritually, which is the ending of the work.
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And do you not know that the commencement of the work of the Father's is the consummation of the work of the Son? And these things have been hid up from you because of your unbelief in the work of the Son. But now are they to be manifest to you, if not all, then a select few, that you might be blessed, even as we are.
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For Behold, the work of the Father did commence among us, those who did believe and fulfill the law of the Son; for no one can come into the Father except by way of the Son; and the commencement of the work of the Father is the commencement of the work of the Fathers by which we were all gathered into one great whole; even the Fathers in heaven did go about gathering us into themselves until we were all one with them. And thus are the promises of the Fathers fulfilled on the heads of the children, that we might all be gathered into them. And by this means are the promises fulfilled.
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And thus did the Fathers who are the Shulemna minister to us who had gathered out of the world for the safety of our souls, and thus did we, when the work of the Father had been fulfilled, become Shulemna and go about the land gathering others, until all was fulfilled. Behold, the work of the Father was fulfilled on the one hand to the salvation of our souls, both temporally and spiritually. And on the other hand, the work of the devil was fulfilled, for he did claim all that were his, and he did reign with blood and horror on the earth.
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And thus were the prophecies of Nephi fulfilled; for he did truly see our day, as we both have truly seen yours, O ye nations, for in every nation it is the same, that the time will come when that nation is ripe in inequity that there must needs be an entire separation of the righteous from the wicked. And the righteous will He preserve unto the salvation of their souls, and then are the wicked left to the destruction, which bringeth on the abomination that maketh desolate.
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Gather ye out O ye nations; gather ye out that the work of the Fathers might commence in you. Yea, in the name of Jesus Christ, the Father and the Son, gather ye out that all the promises and mighty works of God might be fulfilled.
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Behold, I say unto you who have started to come into Christ the Son, come ye into Christ the Father also; for did I not tell you in words of plainness that if you would come into Christ the Son, then would the greater things become manifest unto you? And it is because of your unbelief that the greater things have not come unto you. Behold, the greater things are the works of the Father which are unfolded unto all of those who come.
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Yea, they are unfolded by the Fathers themselves and it is for this reason that God did promise the sending of Elijah to plant in the hearts of the children the promises made to the Fathers. And it is by the spirit and power of Elijah, who is one of the Shulemna, that the hearts of the children do turn to the Fathers lest they be smitten and wasted at the coming of the Lord.
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And Behold, the time is nigh at hand for the coming of the Lord, therefore, O ye nations, turn ye into the Fathers. Yea, turn ye, O ye my little ones! Turn ye into the Fathers that ye might be blessed with the fulfilling of the promise.
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And Behold as I did go forth and minister to bring others into the work of the Fathers, there began to be great peace in my soul; yea I did mourn the loss of my loved ones no more, for I began to find others whose hearts and minds were changed into the service of our God, and our hearts were sealed together as one wherever we did go.
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And thus we did journey about over all the face of the land, traveling in our consciousness, for there was nothing that pertained to that old world that we could not see; and there was nothing that could encumber us, for we did have power over all things so that no ravenous beast or poisonous serpent could attack us, for we had overcome the fear in our hearts towards the animals, and thus their fear and enmity towards us was gone.
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And when we came upon a Lamanite or an enemy, they would not see us, but would pass by within touching distance and would not Behold our presence but would be struck dumb so that they could not move; or sometimes the fear would take hold of them so that they would shake and tremble and drop their swords and run away.
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And by this means we began to see that we did have power in ourselves to do all things which were expedient for us to do in the work of the gathering; for we could preserve whom we would preserve,and not by our own strength, but it was the power of God in us and thus it was fulfilled that which is written by Isaiah, saying, they shall roar like young lions and lay hold of the prey and carry away safe and none can deliver.
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Behold there was no power which could hold us, nor was there anything that could delay us from our prescribed duty, and our prescribed duty was to rescue from death those who would come all the way into the Fathers. And thus we did gather into the Fathers all who would come, and teach them the laws by which they might be saved. And thus we did journey over all the face of the land and take them out, one of a city, two of a family, and bring them to Zion.
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And we were filled with the power and the joy of our God for we did know and understand the promises and the work of the Fathers and behold it is a marvelous work and a wonder even to this time, and from this time forevermore, even unto the last generation. Yea, verily it is the same work and it changes not.
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And thus we began to be quickened in all our physical senses; for the natural eye had never beheld, nor the ear ever heard before, the things which we began to both see and hear and understand, and we did not only behold with our whole being, and whether we did see with our body or with our spirit, we could not tell, for it did seem to us both the same, for we were filled with light to behold all things.
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And we did behold many sacred records, for God did ordain that His people in any place or time should keep a record of their works and God did see that those records were preserved.
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And Behold, it came to pass that Ammaron did again take possession of the sacred records; for he was the son of Jeron, who was the son Ammaron, the same who did hide up the sacred writings. And Ammaron did take possession of the records of his fathers which are many, and he does have charge of them unto this day. And they will come forth when the Father ordains it, and until that time they will be hid up, for God has decreed that He will first try the faith of His people.
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But behold they are known to us and they can be made known to any whose faith is sufficiently strong, for the Fathers do desire to give us all things just as soon as we can receive them. And behold there is nothing that they will withhold; for behold all things are ours, and we are Christ's and Christ is God's. And thus it is that we are gathered together in one. Amen.