Discourse 1843-09-10

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Discourse 1843-09-10
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    Elder W. Woodruff arose and addressed the Assembly from Amos 3 ch. 7 v. "'Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth thehis secret unto his servants the prophets.' Aaccording to the testimony of the scriptures in all ages of the world, whenever God was about to bring a judgment upon the world or accomplish any great work, the first thing he did was to raise up a Prophet, and reveal unto him histhe secretst, and send him to warn ...
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    they stumbled at the stone they were broken, but when it falls upon the heads of the gentile world it will grind them to powder. and The full set time is come for the Lord to set his hand to accomplish these mighty events, and ^as^ he has done as he in other ages, so has he done now—he has raised up a prophet, and is revealing unto him his secrets: through that prophet he has brought to light the fulness of the everlasting gospel to the present generation, and ...
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    at the doors. Though the secrets which God is revealing through his servant the Prophet in these last days may be unpopular, and unbelieved in by the world, yet their unbelief will not make the truth of God of none effect any more than it did in the days of Lot and Noah, or at the fall of Jerusalem. When Jesus Christ said there should not be left one stone upon another in the Temple that should ...
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    for crosses, or room for their bodies; and while despair was in every face, and every heart sinking while suffering under the chastening hand of God, their enemies rushed upon them in the city to strike the last fatal blow; and as their last resort, they rushed ^for safety^ into the Temple, which was soon on fire, and they sunk in the midst of the flames with the cry of their sufferings ascending up on high, accompanied by the smoke of the crackling ^spires and^ towers. The remaining miserable few ...
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    and rebuild Jerusalem upon her own heaps; while at the same time the destruction destroyer of the Gentiles will be on his way; and while God was turning the captivity of Israel, he would put all their curses and afflictions upon the heads of the gentiles their enemies, who had not sought to recover but to destroy them, and had trodden them under foot from generation to generation. At the same time the standard should be lifted up, that the honest in heart, the meek of the earth among the gentiles should ...
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    until all should be fulfilled. These things are about to come to pass upon the heads of the present generation, notwithstanding they are not looking for it, neither do they believe it; yet their unbelief will not make the truth of God of none effect; the signs are appearing in the heavens, and on the earth, and all things indicate the fulfilment of the Prophets; the fig tree is leavfing, summer is nigh, and the Lord has sent his angels to lay the foundation of this great and important ...