ABRIDGE  EDITION
 
                 MORMON  CHURCH,
"SECOND  BEAST ?"
Rev. 13: 11
gronning@chello.no
 KJELL  E.  GRØNNING

J. S. stated  that the church was solely a Gentile structure that was designed
to assist in gathering the House of Israel from all the nation of the world.
      
This article affirms the LDS church to be the "Second Beast" in Revelation of
  Saint John The the Divine. Has anybody told the world this before?
 
    This article uses the Book of Mormon as a guide to "prove" that the two beasts in Rev.13, are the two Gentile churches indicated in 1.Nephi 13: 42.
    The first beast, rising up out of the sea with seven heads and ten horns is the Christianity in our days , after having gone through a metamorphosis in Ancient Times,  from being a Lamb into becoming a Monster. The Second Beast, coming up out of the earth, is a lamb with two horns which in our days is going through the same development.
This lamb is also metamorphosing into a beast."The First," in "the latter days," refers to the Mormon Church and her denominations.
Read this article and see if this "Second Beast" (Lamb) is: 
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints.  
   As a beginning let us start with a well known nation in B. of M.:  King Noah and his people. The Mormon Church has many points of resemblance to this apostate Nephitic society. King Zeniff was a God fearing man, the political ruler, he was also the president of the church, and under his rules, his people was acceptable to God. His son, Noah, is now to reign as king and as the supreme leader of the church. Immediately he sets going to destroy both the people and the church.     Mosiah 11:1.
   "he had many wives and concubines." This is abominable in the sight of the Lord. King Noah had no permission of God to practice polygamy, He was never commanded, neither did he ask for his permission to exercise this holy and celestial law, neither did Brigham Young.
They two are of a piece!  They became idolatrous, because the people were dominated and deceived by their king and priests, that is: their leaders. And  this destructive process went on without the people having any clear understanding of what was  actually going on in the church. The people themselves were not able to expose the ungodliness of their leaders, because they were inside the church. This church is already on its way to ruin, we are given some of the elements in this demolishing process.  A prophet, a man of God, has to tell them about their dangerous and desperate situation! None of their leaders were urged by any spirit, good or evil, to tell the people about their real state and standing. This whole religious body is completely struck with blindness, because they are totally dominated by their leaders and they are  inside the church. If they were outside, they would have been able to do their own thinking, then they would have seen their own misery and received the prophet of God. The people would have understood that king Noah and all their leaders were corrupt and ungodly and they led them on the road to destruction. The people were not able to do their own thinking. because they were inside the church, and therefore quite helpless.
     In this environment, the true prophet of God has no possibility to be heard.

“Always keep your eyes on the president of the church, and if he ever tells you anything even if it is wrong and you do it, the Lord will bless you for it, but you don’t need to worry,  the Lord will never let his mouthpiece lead the people astray.” – Marion Q. Romney
    Stuff and nonsense !  M. Q. Romney is here in a clear conflict with the Book of Mormon.
His dogma is directly devastating, even destructive for the church.
The Mormon people to-day, are in the same situation as those people surrounding king Noah.
The Book of Mormon tells us:  King Noah himself, and his people, considered him as their king and leader of the nation, and as their President of the church,
and therefore King Noah was their mouthpiece of the Lord.
This King, this  President, this Leader, this Mouthpiece could not lead God's people astray.
Nobody in this religious body dared speak against their leaders and 'do their own thinking.'
    This is actually the reason why this evil, and ungodly people collectively condemned and killed Abinadi, the prophet of God.
         The dogma:
"When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done," is not of God.
         PROOF:
"Tell the brethren if they will follow the Spirit of the Lord, they will go right.
Be careful and not turn away the small still voice;
it will teach them what to do and where to go."      Joseph Smith, the Prophet.
"And the time cometh that he shall manifest himself unto all nations,
both unto the Jews and also unto the Gentiles;
and after he has manifested himself unto the Jews
and also unto the Gentiles, then he shall manifest himself
unto the Gentiles and also unto the Jews,
and the last shall be first, and the first shall be last."
  1. Nephi 13: 42;
(D.&C. 29: 11; 34: 9; 133: 8;  Jacob 5: 63;  Ether 13: 12)

      The Book of Mormon tells us here what Jesus really meant with the words:
"But many that are first shall be last; and the last first."     Mark 10: 31.

And I stood upon the sand of the sea and I saw a beast rise up out of the sea
having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns,
and upon his heads the name of blasphemy. And the beast which I saw
was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear,
and his mouth as the mouth of a lion, and the dragon gave him his power,
and his seat, and great authority."    Revelation 13: 1, 2

     Shortly "interpreted":
   This strange and cruel picture which John paints before our staring eyes, is the Christianity in our own days, after developing from a Lamb in Ancient Times, into this Monster in our own time. The heads are the great, most important churches:
The Catholic church, Lutheran, Calvin, Russian, Orthodox, The Church of England etc.
The horns are churches standing upon the heads and therefore denomination churches belonging to their respective heads.

"And it was given into him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations." Rev. 13: 7

     John tells us here in plain text:     This is the total Apostasy.
Satan is given permission from God to wage war against the saints,
and he overcomes them and God gives Satan power over the whole mankind.  John and Nephi tell us clearly: The church of the Gentiles in Ancient Times is overcome by the Devil, We will learn, in spite of the fact that the Gentile church in Meridian of Time was fully equipped of God to resist Satan, and additionally was given promises and blessings from Jesus Christ himself, in spite of all this, the church was not able to withstand the Devil.
She was overcome! The people of God has to be tested. Satan fights against the Saints, and he gains the victory.The Gentile church, "the last," in Ancient Times, falls into ruin.    
Out of the Ancient Times comes a defeated Gentile church.
This is the huge church that has fallen away! She doesn't come out from the great anywhere, she is the direct successor of "the last," the Gentile church in the Meridian of Time,
the Saints, the Church of the Lamb, the Kingdom of God, she is the original descendant of the Church of God, this we must be quite aware off!  She goes through a converting stage, a metamorphosis, from Divinity into becoming Satanic, from a Lamb into a Monster.  

     "The first" the Gentile church, the Mormon Church in the latter days,
is also destroyed by Satan.

Now, we leave the Gentile church, "the last" in Ancient Times and turn towards her sister church, the second Gentile church, "the first" in the latter days, the Mormon Church and her denominations.A great and pruning question arises: Will the second, the last Gentile church, "the first" in the latter days, be able to survive the battle against Satan? For this battle will surely arise. We have to remember and keep clearly in mind the destroying destiny of her sister church nearly 2000 years ago, obviously the Gentile Church in the Meridian of Time, lost that battle. The Gentile church in these latter days has its only legitimate claim if "the last" in Ancient Times really was crushed by Satan.    If she was not, then the saying:
"the first shall be last and the last shall be first", is only an empty phrase, and my whole theses and philosophy are good for nothing. But this phraseology is genuine NT, and Jesus Christ himself stands behind it:
"And Jesus said unto them: But many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first."
Matt. 19: 30   Also: Mark 10: 31;  Luke 13: 30;  Ether 13: 12
   Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet, the Gentiles great prophet in the latter days, was ordained to lay the foundation of the second Gentile church, "the first in the latter days", and bring  fourth the first evangelical dispensation. In "the first vision", he was told "not to join with any of them." This means that God could not build his kingdom upon any of the existing churches,  this is a clear indication that the former Gentile church had undergone a demolishing transition into ruin. We cannot understand this otherwise. Then follows the angel Moroni, a resurrected, glorified and immortal being. He brings the sealed golden plates of Ancient America. Joseph Smith is charged with the task of translating 1/3 of the golden plates from "reformed Egyptian" into modern English. The remaining 2/3, which is the sealed portion of the Book of Mormon, should remain sealed and kept in  readiness to be translated, if the church proved herself worthy to receive them.
  "And when they (LDS Church) shall have received this,  (1/3 of B.M.) which is expedient that they should have first, to try their faith, and if it shall so be that they shall believe these things, then shall the greater things (2/3 of B.M.) be made manifest unto them. And if it so be that they will not believe these things, then shall the greater things be withheld from them unto their condamnation.

Behold, I (Mormon) was about to write them all, which were engraven upon the plates of Nephi,
but the Lord forbade it, saying: I will try the faith of my people."   3.Nephi  26: 9 -11
    "And he (Joseph Smith) has translated the book, even that part which I have commanded him,
and as your Lord and your God liveth it is true." "And I have given into him the keys of the mystery of those things which have been sealed, even things which were from the foundation of the world,"
    D. & C. 17: 6; 35: 18
   The good Mormon apostle Orson Pratt has given us these fractions. Actually, according to Orson Pratt, today we have only 1/3 of the Book of Mormon, the remaining 2/3 are hidden and sealed up, but they shall come forth in  the own due time of the Lord,
        and not to the Gentiles, but "unto the house of Israel."

   "And also others who have been, to them hath he shown all things, and they have written them;
and they are sealed up to come forth in their purity, according to the truth which is in the Lamb,
in the own due time of the Lord, unto the house of Israel."    1.Nephi 14: 26
  "And it shall come to pass that the Lord God shall bring forth unto you the words of a book, and they shall be the words of them which have slumbered. And behold the book shall be sealed; and in the book shall be a revelation from God, from the beginning of the world to the ending thereof. Wherefore, because of the things which are sealed up, the things which are sealed shall not be delivered in the day of wickedness and abomination of the people. Wherefore the book shall be kept from them. But the book shall be delivered unto a man, and he shall deliver the words of the book, which are the words of those who have slumbered in the dust, and he shall deliver these words unto another; but the words which are sealed he shall not deliver, neither shall he deliver the book. For the book shall be sealed by the power of God, and the revelation which was sealed shall be kept in the book until the own due time of the Lord, that they may come forth, for behold, they reveal all things from the foundation of the world unto the end thereof.
Touch not the things which are sealed, for I will bring them forth in my own due time;"  2.Nephi 27: 6-10, 21;  Mormon 5: 9;  Ether 3: 22-28;  4: 4-7,13;  5:1    
This translation, which today, represents  the Book of Mormon, was carried out by a relatively ignorant, poor, young farm boy, not capable of translating any language at all;
Emma, his wife said: 'Joseph could hardly write his own name.'
The 2/3 of the golden plates of the Book of Mormon are still sealed up,
and this clearly shows us that 'the church was not counted worthy to receive them;'
"the greater things are being withheld from them unto their condemnation."
    I meditated on the Gentile Church in Antiquity, I saw how easily and quickly she fell disintegrated to the ground,  Satan was the cause of this tremendous destruction.
I understood that this church developed into the colossus of Christendom.
    Suddenly it struck me, what about the second beast in the same 13. chapter
in the Book of Revelation, who was that?   Could it be... ? ... ?  No!  Oh...?  No!  My God !
   I was a lonely man, I could not ask anybody, but could I? I went into prayer on my knees, mostly in the middle of the night. This became a battle, a struggle, because I didn't get any answer at all, the Lord didn't answer my prayers, he didn't care to tell me: "The true state and standing" of the Gentile church in the latter days. I have to confess, the Lord remained silent. I got alarmed, disappointed, sick, I wanted to die. Maybe they were right all those who said: 'There is no God that is just stupid imagination.'
The B. of M. has many scriptures regarding  prayer: "We cannot understand the words which our father hath spoken concerning the natural branches of the Olive tree and also concerning the Gentiles. And I said unto them; "Have ye inquired of the Lord?"    1.Nephi 15: 8
   "And likewise also is it counted evil unto a man, if he shall pray and not with real intent of heart;
yea, and it profiteth him nothing, for God receiveth none such."
    "For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray ye would know that ye must  pray, for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray...
I say unto you that ye must pray always and not faint."     2.Nephi 32: 8, 9
    So I persisted resolutely in my prayers towards heaven; and at last, after many lonely nights, my struggle was rewarded, and I had the divinity of the Book of Mormon confirmed:
"Nevertheless after much tribulations,
the Lord did hear my cries, and did answer my prayers."
Mosiah 23: 10.
  The Lord showed me and answered me concerning the real and true situation of  "the first," the  Gentile church in the latter days, the Mormon Church,
          and he did it in this strange way:
   "Behold, I was about to write them, all which were engraven upon the plates of Nephi,
but the Lord forbade it, saying: I will try the faith of my people."
"Write the things which you have seen and heard, save it be those which are forbidden."
    3.Nephi 26: 11; 27: 23.
We are not informed as to what is forbidden.
"And when these things come, bringeth to pass the scripture which saith:

There are they who were first, who shall be last;
and there are they who were last, who shall be first.
And I was about to write more, but I am forbidden."
    Ether 13: 12,13.

   "and there are they who were last, who shall be first. (Moroni is here interrupted!)
And I was about to write more, but I am forbidden."
    Why! These are the Gentile churches, both of them; Obviously, Moroni was about to write more about the Gentile churches, "the last" and "the first", but he was forbidden.
We remember the Jews were:  "the first" and "the last." We must take it for granted,
the Gentile churches were them Moroni was forbidden to write about, at any rate and especially the Gentile church in the latter days. The other Gentile church, in Ancient Times, has the Book of Mormon (Nephi), 1000 years earlier, already described as a fallen church:
  "And the angel said unto me: Behold the formation of a church which is most abominable above all other churches, which slayeth the saints of God, yea, and tortureth them and bindeth them down, and yoketh them with a yoke of iron, and bringeth them down into captivity. And it came to pass that I beheld this great and abominable church; and I saw the devil that he was the founder of it."
    1 Nephi 13: 5, 6
   "But the things which thou (Nephi) shalt see hereafter, thou shalt not write; for the Lord God hath ordained the apostle of the Lamb of God (John) that he should write them.
And behold, I, Nephi, am forbidden that I should  write the remainder of the things which I saw and heard; wherefore the things which I have written sufficeth me; and I have written but a small part of the things which I saw."     1.Nephi  14: 25, 28
   Here we learn that Nephi is forbidden to write the remainder of the things which he saw and heard. It was to remain a secret in the B. of M. and was not told plainly by Nephi that the Gentile churches, especially "the first" in "the latter days" should be crushed by the Devil, in the same manner as her sister church in Ancient Times. We have good reason to believe that John the Revelator will tell us about the Gentile churches in his particular way, and not Nephi, because he has a characteristic way of writing peculiar to him.
Nephi's manner of writing is too open and he would reveal the secrets at once. The Lord doesn't take away the free agency of man, he doesn't change his personality, he doesn't change Nephi's way of writing. "Joseph could hardly write his own name", as Emma said,
therefore he needed others to write the Book of Mormon for him, later he had to learn writing, God didn't just give that ability

The following shows "the personality" of Nephi, that means, his manner of writing:
    "Wherefore I shall prophesy according to the plainness which hath been with me
from the time that I came out from Jerusalem with my father;"
  
"for behold, my soul delighteth in plainness unto my  people, that they may learn."

"I proceed with my own prophecy, according to my plainness, in the which I know that no man can err."   
"And now, my brethren, I have spoken plainly that ye cannot err."

"Ye are a stiff-necked people; wherefore, I have spoken plainly unto you that you cannot misunderstand."    

"I shall speak unto you plainly, according to the plainness of my prophesying. For my soul delighteth in plainness;"
  
"I glory in plainness; I glory in truth." 2. Nephi 25: 4, 7, 20, 28; 31: 2, 3; 33: 6.
  

This Nephi's way of writing, is essentially different from John the Revelator. This plainness and truth was not wanted by the Lord 600 years before Christ. The destiny of the Gentile Church in the latter days has to be kept hidden, and will first be disclosed by John the Revelator in due time. We would get too far if we tried to search in the Book of Daniel, because this is a sealed book. We are not able to read (understand) a sealed book:

"But thou, 0 Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end."
"And he said, go thy way, Daniel; for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end."   Daniel 12:  4, 9
"And the vision of all is become unto you as the words of a book that is sealed, which men deliver to one that is learned, saying, read this I pray thee; and he saith, I cannot; for it is sealed. And the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, read this I pray thee; and he saith,
I am not learned."   Isaiah 29: 11, 12.

    Obviously, nobody can read (understand) a sealed book, that is just why it is sealed!
The book of Daniel will be understood when the seals are broken by Daniel at:
"the time of the end"

  The Book of Revelation is not a sealed book, it is an open book: (and so is also B. of  M.)
    "Seal not the saying of the prophecy of this book" Rev. 22: 10
    B. of M. says: "To come forth by the gift and power of God unto the interpretation thereof."
    We have now two important books which are not sealed, they are open for interpretation:
    So, if I have the gift of God, I might be able to interpret these two books!
 Chapter 13 in Revelation, which dealt with the Gentile church in the Meridian of Time,
this very same chapter also deals with her sister church in our own time:
    
    "And then shall the revelation which I have caused to be written by my servant John be unfolded in the eyes of all the people. Remember, when ye see these things, ye shall know that the time is at hand that they shall be made manifest in very deed." Ether 4: 16

"And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth;
and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon."
Rev. 13: 11,    
"God never made use of the figure of a beast to represent the Kingdom of Heaven.
When it is made use of, it is to represent an apostate church."
Joseph Smith, the Prophet, History of the Church, Vol. 5. p. 324
   
     What and who is this beast?
This beast is an apostate church and is the answer the Lord gav me, after having called upon his name, in the middle of the night on my knees: 
    "Oh, Lord, show me the real truth about the Mormon church"
Here is laid quite open for "Little me,"  some of the secrets both Nephi and Moroni were prohibited to reveal ! Joseph Smith has obviously been given the same warning from the Lord:   'Never meddle with the vision of beasts', he said.
John tells us: The first beast who rose up out of the sea, was already fully developed into a monster, but we have to remember, that monster was first a Lamb.
This second beast, coming up out of the earth, is a Lamb, developing into a
This "another beast" is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints and her denomination  She is presented to us with her full name and address! No other church upon the whole earth fits into this picture! This is a lamb, of course the church of the Lamb, the Gentile church in the latter days, the sister church of  "The First Lamb,"  "the first beast," the very first beast 2000 years ago,
which had its origin from the church of the Lamb in Ancient Times!
John tells us clearly: The two Gentile churches, the one in Ancient Times and the other one,
in "the latter days", do not survive, both of them fall into ruin! Listen to "little me";
I want to give you my commentary:

"And I beheld another beast..."

    Another; gr. ALLOS, means actually: Another of the same kind (like the first beast).
This is the sister church of the first beast (the Monster) that rose up out of the sea.
This beast, is of the same kind, and is coming up out of the earth,
clearly they belong together! They are of a piece.
    Nephi said:
    "I shall speak unto you plainly, according to the plainness of my prophesying, for my soul delighteth in plainness." "I give unto you a prophecy, according to the spirit which is in me,
wherefore I shall prophecy according to the plainness which has been with me from the time that I came out from Jerusalem." This plainness would lay the whole stage wide open. As I see this revelation, the Lord uses John and not Nephi, to conceal. These secrets shall be made understandable in the latter days.

"Coming up out of the earth"

      The prophet Joseph Smith has, among many other things, been accused of being a plagiarist, and in this case we have to admit that his many enemies are completely right!

    Yes, the Book of Mormon came up out of the earth and laid the foundation
of the church of the Lamb (the Mormon Church) in the latter days.

"and he had two horns"

    Aug. 27. 1834 and April 22. 1839; Joseph Smith says that he will be succeeded
by his oldest son, Joseph Smith III  (D. M. Quinn pp 630, 638)  Joseph Smith, the prophet, ordained and prophesied on June 11.1844, that his son, Joseph, should be his theocratic successor and the president of the church. This was a little more than two weeks before  he was assassinated, June 27.1844, President Brigham Young acknowledged this by saying:
”It will be his (Joseph Smith III) right to preside over this church.”    
    B.Y. Oct. 1866  gen. Conf.
    The Prophet Joseph Smith's many malicious enemies here have a clear proof that he was a false or fallen prophet, because this was a false prophecy, it was never fulfilled. His son never became the president of the church, young Joseph never became the president of the Mormon church. But young Joseph became the president of the other church,
The Reorganized Church, that means, the other horn!!
The prophecy was quite true, Joseph Smith doesn't fall,
These two horns are namely standing upon the one and the same head !!

"like a lamb"

    Yes, we have made up our minds, this is the Church of the Lamb, the Gentiles,
"the first" in the latter days. The Mormon Church.

"and he spake as a dragon"

This church is still a Lamb, but she already speaks as a dragon. This tells us clearly:
The church of the Lamb in the latter days undergoes the same metamorphosis
as did her sister church, the Church of the Lamb in the Meridian of Time:
She develops from a Lamb into a Monster.

  "You say, That man ought to die for transgressing the law of God. Let me suppose you found your brother in bed with your wife, and put a javelin through both of them, you would be justified, and they would atone for their sins, and be received into the kingdom of God. I would at once do
so in such a case; and under such circumstances. I have no wife whom I love so well
that I would not put a javelin through her heart, and I would do it with clean hands." (sic)

"and he spake as a dragon"

Discourse by President Brigham Young,
Delivered in the Tabernacle, Great Salt Lake City, March 16. 1856
Journal of Discourses Vol. III page 247

     "Brigham Young said a lot of things!"
- Gordon B. Hinckley

<>     This discourse was delivered in full publicity by Brigham Young himself.
Has that man really God's mandate to say and do these things?
  Joseph Smith, the Gentile's great prophet, is revealing a fantastic information about Israel, when they, after their 40 years of sufferings and pains in the wilderness, were given another punishment even worse than the first one. Strangely enough the Jews were never informed that this cruel thing had struck them. It was kept as a secret for 3500 years: "Now this Moses plainly taught to the children of Israel in the wilderness, and sought diligently to sanctify his people that they might behold the face of God; but they hardened their hearts and could not endure his presence; therefore, the Lord in his wrath, for his anger was kindled against them, swore that they should not enter into his rest while in the wilderness, which rest is the fullness of his
   therefore, he took Moses out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also; And the lesser priesthood continued, which priesthood holdeth the key of ministering of angels and the preparatory gospel. Which gospel is the gospel of repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law of carnal commandments,"    D. & C. 84: 23-26    
    What was the actual reason that the Lord  took his Holy Priesthood  away from ISRAEL?       ANSWER: The whole ISRAEL, as a people, were punished for one only reason:
They didn't respond upon the commandment from the Lord their God when they stood south
in the desert facing the promised land, Kanaan, "Take this land into your possession."
    We are quite convinced, that the Lord will act according to divine justice
and righteousness in his mode of treatment, to treat these two peoples, ISRAEL and the LDS Church  equally, so:
 therefore, he took Joseph out of their midst, and the Holy Priesthood also; And the lesser priesthood continued, which priesthood holdeth the key of ministering of angels and the preparatory gospel. Which gospel is the gospel of repentance and of baptism, and the remission of sins, and the law of carnal commandments,"     
Obviously, the Lord did not seem it necessary to supply us with this information:
That he has taken the Holy Melchizedek Priesthood away from the church, but when we behold the character and the situation of the church to-day, we fully realize that this is the case. 
        The Lord commanded all these things to be obeyed! 

       You may consider my contribution to this debate as an attack upon the Mormon church,
but is it really so? I have no desire to do such a thing. I went into prayer and conversed with the Lord, I asked him to tell me the truth about the Gentile church in the latter days, because the B of M. told me to do so!  The Lord did not answer my prayers, and in all my loneliness and uncertainty, I put up a hopeless struggle, a battle with the Lord himself!  The truth is that the Lord gave in! because I fought, I refused to give in, I firmly believed that my case was righteous, and here I lay before you his answer to me, this is my testimony, in all its naivety, 
I believe the Lord really did answer my question.
Do I hurt the church? Of course, I do. If what here I say is true, not to say, the Truth,
I am mutilating the whole Mormon church after 50 years of membership.
I know perfectly well that I shall stand before my God and my heavenly Father at the outermost day of the Lord, to be made responsible for my teaching and all my acts throughout my whole 81 years life.     When I first got this "imagination" about the Mormon church, it seemed to me nearly unbelievable, I was shocked! 
    When I realized the consequences of my understanding, I got extremely frightened,
it rang in my ears:  
"For woe into them that fight against God and the people of his church."    2.Nephi 25: 14.
    I considered myself in a desperate and dangerous situation. If I were wrong, if I were inspired by the Devil himself, then I was in opposition to God, even without knowing.
I realized there was only one thing to do, once again I needed the remedy, given us from the Lord himself:

     " Have ye inquired of the Lord?"

    I was a lonely, old, weak man, but I was not defenseless! I did the only right thing:
I went into prayer, like the first time, mostly in the middle of the night:
    "Oh, Lord, you have in many places promised to listen to your children, Oh Lord,
I am drowning, help me! Show mercy toward me! I take all the hosts in heaven as witnesses that I called upon your name for knowledge, for information about my own true state and standing, and  you didn't answer me. You have showed me, so I believe, that the both Gentile churches  fall into ruin. Now, show me that I am completely wrong,
    The Lord did answer me, He never let me down. He did not warn me against  my "imagination," he confirmed and strengthened my understanding of the true situation of the Mormon church.   Now I have no doubt whatsoever:
     “You have inquired of me and I did enlighten your mind; and now I tell these things that you may know that you have been enlightened by the Spirit of truth. Behold, I have manifested unto you, by my Spirit in many instances, that the things which you have written are true; wherefore you know that they are true. And if you know that they are true, behold, I give unto you a commandment, that you rely upon the things which are written. Verily, verily, I say unto you, blessed are you for what you have done; for you have inquired of me, and behold, as often as you have inquired you have received instruction of my Spirit. If it had not been so, you would not have come to the place where you are at this time. Behold, you know that you have inquired of me and I did enlighten your mind; and now I tell you these things that you may know that you have been enlightened by the Spirit of truth. Yea, I tell you, that you may know that there is none else save God that knows your thoughts and the intents of your heart. I tell you these things as a witness unto you, that the words or the work which you have been writing are true."     D. & C. 18: 2, 3;  6: 14-17
     This word of God was given to Oliver Cowdery, he was an ordinary man. But take solemnly into consideration, Oliver, was ordained  before the foundation of the world  
to be charged with the task as one of "The Three Witnesses," to the Book of Mormon.
     I am completely convinced of that the both Gentile churches fall into ruin! Not only  the Gentile church in Ancient Times, which developed from a Lamb into that mighty Monster, Christianity, but the Gentile church, the Mormon church in "the latter days" as well.
That good book, the Book of Mormon, tells us: "The last in the latter days", ISRAEL,
is the people of God, they shall survive in the combat against Satan, not the Gentiles churches, they have, both of them, already lost that fight.

"The last" in the latter days, ISRAEL, resist Satan.

    Let us look, at last,  how it is finally to end with, "the natural fruit" and
"the natural branches," of  "the tame, good Olive tree," which is ISRAEL
and "the wild branches" from "the wild Olive tree," which is the GENTILES.
This occurrence will take place just before the Millennium.
    The B. of M. gives us the divine answer:
   "Graft in the branches; begin at the last that they may be first, and that the first may be last, and dig about the trees, both old and young, the first and the last; and the last and the first, that all may be nourished once again for the last time. Wherefore, let us take of the branches of these which I have planted in the nethermost parts of my vineyard, and let us graft them into the tree from when- ce they came; and let us pluck from the tree those branches whose fruit is most bitter, and graft in the natural branches of the tree in the stead thereof. And this will I do that the tree may not perish. And there began to be the natural fruit again in the garden, and the natural branches began to grow and thrive exceedingly; and the wild branches began to be plucked off and to be cast away."
    Jacob 5: 63, 52, 53, 73 in B.of M.  

        GENTILES: "The first in the latter days."  ( The Mormon Church )
"The wild branches began to be plucked off and to be cast away."

        ISRAEL: "The last in the latter days."  ( The Jews )
"The natural branches began to grow and thrive exceedingly."

"Come unto me, O ye Gentiles, and I will show unto you the greater things,
the knowledge which  is hid up because of unbelief."     Ether 4:13
    "And they understood me not that I said they shall hear my voice;
and they understood me not that the Gentiles should not at any time hear my voice,
that I should not manifest myself unto them save it were by the Holy Ghost".3.Nephi 15:23
These Gentiles are: "the first in the latter days,"
    "The last" in the latter days, ISRAEL, shall overcome. ISRAEL shall resist Satan!
They are the people Jesus Christ shall build upon, to bring forth the Millennium.
With ISRAEL, as a nation, Jesus Christ shall reign the whole Millennium.

"And set up over his head this accusation written:
Jesus of Nazareth, the King of the Jews;
And it was written in Hebrew, and Greek, and Latin."
Matt. 27: 37;  John. 19: 19, 20

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