Wo Unto Those Who Waste the Days of the Probation!
27 But wo unto him that has the law given, yea, that has all the commandments of God, like unto us, and that transgresseth them, and that wasteth the days of his probation, for awful is his state! (2 Ne 9:27) 25 And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them;
26 And they who keep their first estate shall be added upon; and they who keep not their first estate shall not have glory in the same kingdom with those who keep their first estate; and they who keep their second estate shall have glory added upon their heads for ever and ever. (Abr 3:25-26)
We will be judged according to our works.
31 For the day soon cometh, that men shall come before me to judgment, to be judged according to their works. (JST Matt 7:31)
12 And I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God; and the books were opened: and another book was opened, which is [the book] of life: and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
(Rev 20:12-13)
Obedience to God is the only righteous work, saith the Lord. King Saul spared the cattle, but was condemned for this:
22 And Samuel said, Hath the LORD [as great] delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of the LORD? Behold, to obey [is] better than sacrifice, [and] to hearken than the fat of rams.
23 For rebellion [is as] the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness [is as] iniquity and idolatry. (1 Sam 15:22-23)
Religion which does not have the oracles of God and therefore say the canon is full, by definition do not receive the word and will of the Lord in real time, and thus their oblations and works are an abomination in my sight, saith the Lord, and they shall be destroyed if they turn not from their evil way to do the works of righteousness. Even so. Amen.
"...what our Lord Jesus Christ said to them: 'Whited sepulchers, which appear beautiful outward, and within are full of dead men's bones; which pay tithe of mint, and swallow a camel: ye blind guides!' If, then, you will not despise the doctrines of those who exalt themselves and wish to be called Rabbi, Rabbi, and come with such earnestness and intelligence to the words of prophecy as to suffer the same inflictions from your own people which the prophets themselves did, you cannot receive any advantage whatsoever from the prophetic writings.
(VOLUME 1 - THE APOSTOLIC FATHERS WITH JUSTIN MARTYR AND IRENAEUS)
12 Because of pride, and because of false teachers, and false doctrine, their churches have become corrupted, and their churches are lifted up; because of pride they are puffed up.
(2 Ne 28:12-15)
13 They rob the poor because of their fine sanctuaries; they rob the poor because of their fine clothing; and they persecute the meek and the poor in heart, because in their pride they are puffed up.
14 They wear stiff necks and high heads; yea, and because of pride, and wickedness, and abominations, and whoredoms, they have all gone astray save it be a few, who are the humble followers of Christ; nevertheless, they are led, that in many instances they do err because they are taught by the precepts of men.
15 O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that are puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those who preach false doctrines, and all those who commit whoredoms, and pervert the right way of the Lord, wo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!
(2 Ne 28:12-15)
16 Nevertheless, this did not put an end to the spreading of priestcraft through the land; for there were many who loved the vain things of the world, and they went forth preaching false doctrines; and this they did for the sake of riches and honor.
(Alma 1:16)
Any many may believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God, and be happy in that belief, and yet not obey his commandments, and at last be cut down for disobedience to the Lord's righteous requirements.
(Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, selected and arranged by Joseph Fielding Smith, p.311)
NEW REVELATION
Orson Pratt
"To hear brother Pratt preach is like listening to music." Brigham Young.
There are two things in order for the Kingdom of God to exist: (1) a legal administrator,
(2) the oracles of God. Where these two things are, there is the Kingdom of God. And
where these two things are not, there the Kingdom of God is not. Joseph Smith.
TPJS.
There is no subject which is more ridiculed by the religious world, at the present day
(May, 1854), than that of New Revelation .
All Christendom profess to admit that the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, are still in
existence , and that they are unchangeable in their attributes, and that there are just as
many angels now as in ancient times; but to assert that any of these holy beings have
communicated any New Revelation to man since the first century of the Christian era, is
considered, if not blasphemy, something near akin to it.
Now a religion that excludes New Revelation (let us see one written as did Joseph
Smith and as have I, from Kimball or his heirling priestly hierarchy) from its principles,
is just the very religion that suits the devil: he is well pleased with it. He cares not how
moral people may be, nor how genteel and polished in their deportment, nor how much
they go to church, nor how many prayers they pretend to offer up, nor how pious they
may be in every respect, if they will only disbelieve in New Revelation ; for he knows
well that God has nothing to do, nor never had, with any religion that did not
acknowledge Prophets, and Revelators, through whom He could speak and reveal His
will to his sons and daughters.
The devil knows that God never had a church on the earth without inspired men in it.
No other church gives him any uneasiness. He likes to see them pray and be very
sanctimonious, as long as he knows that they have no faith in New Revelation. The devil
rejoices, and his angels are glad, when they look over their wide spread dominions, and
behold countless churches and synagogues professedly built to the God of ancient
revelation, and contemplate the hundreds of millions whom they have deluded with the
idea that all New Revelation is unnecessary. So long as the devil can deceive the people
with this anti-christian and unscriptural doctrine, he knows that he is sure of them.
How well pleased his satanic majesty must have been, when he prevailed upon the
"Third Council of Carthage," at the close of the fourth century, to sit in judgment upon
the manuscript copies of the word of God, compiling a few of them into a volume, and
rejecting all the others, and then passing an ecclesiastical law that no other books or
revelations should ever be added to the cannon or volume.
This bound all their deluded followers to reject, in every succeeding generation, every
thing in the form of New Revelation. Oh! how the hosts of hell must have exulted over
their signal success in thus cutting off all further communication between God and man!
And again: what could have more gratified Satan when he found that the religion of
the Roman Church did not altogether suit all the people, than to have them, under the
name of Protestants , invent some new forms of religion, excluding prophets and binding
the people to believe in only the sixty-six books of the Bible . This newly invented
religion, inasmuch as it made the canon of the scripture full, and would in no wise admit
prophets to add any new books to the volume, was just as acceptable to the devil as the
religion of the Catholics; for what the Catholics did not catch, the other impositions
would.
But the moment that God sent angels from heaven to earth, and raised up inspired
men, and once more restored the true Christian Church to the earth, the devil, with all his
combined armies of Catholics and Protestants, (Polygamists, Latter-Day Saints) was
enraged. For God to dare restore the religion of the Bible again to the earth, by sending
prophets and inspired men, by giving visions, and by sending angels, as He did in all
other ages when His religion was on the earth, was more than the devil could bear
without making a tremendous exertion to put it down. To undertake to put it down by
scripture, reason or argument , was entirely in vain, though this was attempted in some
few instances at first, but it always resulted in the most disastrous consequences to the
devil’s kingdom. The devil soon found that there was not the least shadow of evidence to
sustain the Catholic and Protestant imposition against the doctrine of continued
revelation. This forlorn hope having utterly failed him, his next and most successful
operation was to ridicule and denounce the doctrine, and lie about it, and if possible, to
close the eyes and ears, and hearts of the people effectually against it. But even in this
thing he will be defeated; though he may for a time triumph, yet the refuge of lies shall be
swept away, and God will show unto the honest in heart, with power and great glory that
he is the same, yesterday, today and forever, and that he is a God who delights to reveal
Himself by revelations , and dreams, and visions, and prophecies, by the ministering of
angels, and by the miraculous gifts and power of the Holy Ghost. All who deny these
things, and do them away, will be cut off from among the people, (a prophecy of my
advent, the One mighty and strong--see Isaiah 28) and be sent down to hell to suffer with
the devil who has deceived them, and by whom they have been led captive to reject and
deny the gifts of the Holy Ghost and the powers and glory of God’s kingdom.
If this generation are asked to give a reason for rejecting all revelation later than John
the Revelator’s day, their answer is, almost universally, "We have enough, and need no
more;" and we reply, yes they have enough to send them to hell, unless they will receive
more, when God in mercy offers it to them. The very Bible which they pretend is
enough, will rise up in judgment against apostate Christendom, and condemn them, because
in it is taught the doctrine of continued revelation, which they have the great
wickedness to reject.
But why is the devil so angry with a church under the guidance of New Revelation?
Because he knows that a people who live near enough to the Lord to receive information
from Him, will receive by that means a knowledge of all his cunning plans, and detect the
cunning devices by which he has blinded the nations of apostate Christendom so long.
To have the ancient and venerated systems of priestcraft exposed, and the false doctrines,
which he has taken so much pains to introduce and maintain for so many centuries,
overturned by the restoration of true Christianity again to the earth, is calculated to make
the hellish hosts and all under their influence, who delight in darkness, to tremble with
anxiety and through fear of the consequences.
Fear and trembling seize upon the wicked priests, whenever the sound of ancient
Christianity, with its revelations, prophecies, visions and the gifts and power of the Holy
Ghost, approach their neighborhood. Their craft is in danger--they fear for their rotten
corrupt forms of religion--they fear that the people will get their eyes open to discern the
wide difference between the religion of the Bible and their powerless forms invented by
the devil and his servants--they fear that their popularity will wane, and their salaries be
decreased or entirely fail them. To travel without purse or script, as the Latter-Day and
Former Day Saints have done, they cannot afford to do. And then if they should do so,
they would receive no reward, but condemnation for preaching false doctrines among the
people.
If they preach false doctrines they think that they must be well paid: for it is the only
reward that they can get, and bye and bye the end comes and they are hewn down and
cast into the fire: their motto, then is, to live grand while they have the chance, and so
long as they can delude the nations with their apostate forms of religion (now we also
have false science to delude the nations, and does not the devil doubly exult in the
conflict between false science and false religion, the masses tossed to and fro on a sea of
contentious debate between classes of liars?), under the sacred garb of Christianity, they
have the prospect of waxing fat on the hard earnings of their deluded victims.
No wonder then that ancient Christianity, taught by the humble servant of God, as the
Holy Ghost gives him utterance, is like an arrow to the hearts of such hypocritical
impostors. Oh! how abhorrent and disgusting to a humble servant of Christ, and to God,
and to all His Holy angels, to see Catholic and Protestants ministers enter their richly
adorned churches (now we have Cathedrals of Tomorrow, and other such nonsense as
Jimmy Swaggert and other liars on TV!) and chapels, and there pretend to worship God,
when they are as destitute of almost every feature of ancient Christianity as the devil and
his angels. The days are not far distant when such base hypocrites, and all that will suffer
themselves to be deceived by them, will be cast down by devouring fire, that their
impositions, and their hypocrisies, and their corruptions, and all their filthiness and
abominations, may cease to come up before the Lord of Hosts.
Tremble and fear! for if there ever were a generation that had need to tremble and
fear, it is the present--Tell about this being an enlightened age--an age of gospel light!
Never was there an age of greater darkness (Brigham Young said it is the common
delusion of every generation to think itself more progressive and enlightened than
previous ones, and here is the proof, O vain modern man, who art also deluded as others
before thee, saith the Lord God of Isaiah) since man was created upon the earth so far as
it regards the religion of heaven (You ought to behold the present one, Orson, for I am he
who was prophesied to come to do battle against false science and easily against
priestcraft, for their craft today also contradicts the Bible, which they also profess to rely
upon). It is the very age predicted by Isaiah, the Prophet, when "darkness should cover
the earth and gross darkness the minds of the people;" it is a day of thick darkness--
darkness that has been accumulating for centuries , through the abominations practiced
by the apostate nations of Christendom. Not even one ray of light from heaven has
forced its passage through the dark, gloomy dismal night with which they have been for
centuries enshrouded, until an angel penetrated the depths and brought to light that
treasure the Book of Mormon--and raised up inspired men by which light from heaven
again shines on our earth.
But so great are the mists of darkness, that this generation do not perceive the light. "The
light shineth in darkness, but the darkness comprhendeth it not."
"An age of light!" Oh tell it not in the face of high heaven! Where are your holy
apostles inspired from heaven to speak the word of the Lord in the ears of fallen man?
Where are your prophets to lift up their voices by the word of the Lord, and warn the
nations of approaching danger? Where are your Seers enwrapt in the visions of the
Almighty (I have seen the Father and spoken face to face with him in the vision),
bringing to light things both new and old (I have received two volumes of scripture
authoritatively for Israel as anciently), opening the grand events of futurity, and
unlocking the hidden mysteries of the heavenly world? Where now is the voice of
inspiration, and the voice of angels (I have been visited by two) to salute the ears of
mortal man with glad tidings of great joy? Where now are the gifts of healing -the
opening of the eyes of the blind--the unstopping of the ears of the deaf-- the speaking
with other tongues, and all the miraculous gifts and powers of Holy Ghost? They are not
to be as enjoyed by the Latter-day Saints (1854, the modern ones have departed from the
Lord). Will Christendom have the unblushing impudence to call themselves the people
of God, when they are destitute of all these most precious gifts promised in the gospel?
"An age of light!" Oh shame! Oh impudence! when will you cease to call evil good?
How long will the heavens suffer such wickedness to go unpunished!
"And age of light!"--"a Christian nation!" Go to all your large cities throughout the
land--find one, if you can, where there are not whoredoms (now we have an even greater
abomination, forced governmental racial mixing with the black and filthy race of Cain,
the first murderer calculated by rich and lying politicians and newsmen to get gain by
robbing the white and delightsome race, Israel, of its future birthright and incurring the
curse of Cain upon them and their posterity forever, all urged on by Black devils guised
in ministers garb shouting glory and praise to the God of Pharaoh, who was as black in
his mind as they, and the white masses caving into this delusion as before . the flood, for
thus saith the Lord, the black race of Cain sought to mix with the white and delightsome
race that the Curse upon Cain was in danger of being spread over all the face of the
earth, and it was that rather than the earth become lost, I the Lord God did send in the
flood upon them that the inheritance of mine anointed might be preserved.) But God
suffers you thus to corrupt yourselves, because you love darkness and priestcrafts, and
whoredoms, and false doctrines and every evil work. He will suffer you until your
golden cup is full and running over, that he may visit you with a more speedy and awful
judgment, and blot out your name from under heaven! Then shall the holy apostles and
prophets, and all the heavens rejoice over your downfall; for you shall fall to rise no
more.
At the present time, so great is your wickedness, that silence reigns in heaven, and all
eternity is pained, and the angels are waiting with longing anxiety for the great command
to reap down the harvest of the earth, and bind the tares in bundles and give them to the
burning flame1 And if you will not listen to the warning voice, and repent, the servants
of God will not cease their cries to the heavens, until God shall come out of his hiding
place, and make a full end, that the earth may be cleansed and rest for a season.
How is it, that you will not awake to a sense of the awful condition that you are in?
How is it, that you will close your eyes to the signs of the times, (Civil war was poured
out upon them in punishment by the Lord for killing Joseph and Hyrum, my beloved
brethren, the Prophets and Seers of Jacob, yea, even Israel) and not perceive the day of
your visitation? How is it, that you will not pay any attention to that which belongs to
your peace? How is it, that you can be so hard in your hearts and blind in your minds
that you cannot perceive the hand of the Lord in bringing to light the sacred Records of
the ancient Israelites who dwelt upon this continent? Why do you condemn the most
excellent work upon popular rumour, without even reading one page of its contents?
Why will you be proud in your hearts and exalt yourselves above all other nations, and
boast of your own strength as a nation, and imagine that no evil will come upon you,
though you continue in your wickedness? (Was not Brother Orson a prophet in this
regard, even as I am, for I, being moved upon mightily by the Spirit of Revelation, and
Prophecy, do hereby prophesy such great destruction upon this the North American
continent that the tongue cannot portray the scene of anguish, and this shall be because of
the wickedness of the inhabitants of the land as before, and it shall be racial conflict
between the abominable black son of Cain and the equally wretched red-necked gentile,
saith the Lord, that it shall make Civil War seem civil in comparison, for they even they,
saith the Lord, shall feed upon each other’s flesh in that day as in the day that the Nephite
and Lamanite warriors fed upon the flesh of their victims as recorded in the Book of
Mormon as a testimony to this nation of bigots of their pattern in their destruction as a
nation, for thus saith the Lord, they, even they shall be hewn down just in like manner as
the two other nations whose inhabitants have covered the land also as thine, O ye great
big Gentile). Why not discern and understand that it is God that has made you a strong
and powerful nation, and not yourselves? It is God that setteth up and pulleth down.
If you would repent, as He requires you in the Book of Mormon, you would continue to
be blessed upon the land; but if you obey not and reject His word, He will certainly visit
you as it is written. Oh, then, why will you not repent? it will certainly do you no harm
to repent, and forsake false doctrines and every species of wickedness. If you repent and
call upon the Lord even as our pilgrim fathers did, when they first came to this land, God
will be merciful unto you and prolong your blessings in the land.-- Even though you in
your darkness may suppose the Book of Mormon (and the Book--The Revelations of
Jesus Christ) an imposition, you certainly will be on the safe side if you repent and do as
that book (those books) require.
If this new revelation required you to do something that was evil, you would have
some reason for distrusting it and paying no attention to it; but when it requires you to
repent, and forsake every evil practice, and sets forth your evils and abominations plainly
before your eyes, of which you yourselves know that you are guilty, where is your excuse
for not obeying, even though you may think that it is the work of man? If it be the work
of man, can you be excused, and will God overlook all the sins which you know you are
guilty of and which that book accuses you of, and which it requires you to repent of?
No: you have no excuse; you well know that you ought to repent of every evil of which
(those books) accuse you; and that God will in no wise acquit the guilty. And if you
already know this, how much more ought you to fear when a professed revelation makes
its appearance threatening you with awful and speedy judgment, if you do not repent.
Oh my nation! the inhabitants of this beautiful and lovely country! open your ears to
the voice of your bowels of compassion yearn over you--whose voice is to all the
inhabitants of the land calling upon them to repent, and turn away from all their
iniquities, and be rebaptized in His name for the remission of sins, that they may be filled
with the Holy Ghost. Then shall ye know His voice, and the voice of his servants, and
the voice of his spirit: for the spirit is light, and maketh manifest the truth, and if it be in
you, you shall be the children of the light and not walk in darkness.
Now what man is there in all this nation that will not acknowledge that repentance
would not only be beneficial to individuals, but to the whole nation? Why then condemn
the (The Revelations of Jesus Christ) Book of Mormon, for calling upon you to do that
which you know would be beneficial? But, you may reply, the Book of Mormon (Ibid)
professes to be a New Revelation, and we do not believe in new revelation, (or we do not
believe a man from the east with such an unlikely name as Art Bulla can get it, for he
should be able to cut off an arm or some other member of the body and restore it again or
some other sign that the people may know he has come with power, before we will
believe) and therefor we will not repent--A poor excuse indeed! that you will not do that
which you acknowledge would be beneficial, because you
Another thing should cause you to fear and tremble exceedingly.
You should remember that, that very book is substantiated to this generation with far
greater evidence than they have for any other revelation . To reject so great evidence,
and still remain in your sins will be presumptuous on your part.
Again, every man in the nation has the privilege on condition of repentance and
obedience of receiving the Holy Ghost, which will most assuredly guide them into all
truth, and bear record unto them of the truth of this New Revelation, so that they may
have the same knowledge of the divine Authenticity of the Record as they have of any
other truth. To know a thing to be true certainly would impart more happiness and joy,
than to remain in uncertainty and doubt. A knowledge of the truth will give stability to
the mind, so that it will not fluctuate to and fro with every wind of doctrine, invented by
the cunning craftiness of uninspired men. Is there any excuse therefore, for any man in
the nation when it is within the power of all to obtain the most perfect knowledge that the
(Revelations of Jesus Christ) Book of Mormon is a revelation from God? And especially
when this knowledge is to be obtained by doing that which every man will acknowledge
ought to be done, and which all see would be beneficial both to individuals and to the
nation to do?
Orson Pratt, The Seer, May 1854. Published Washington, D.C.
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"All men are liars who say they are of the true Church withoutthe revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order
of the Son of God." Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
- "But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?" Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
- Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
When a man goes about prophesying, and commands men to obey his teachings, he must either be a true or false prophet.- Our website: http://www.artbulla.com
- "All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God." Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
- "He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)
· 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)
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