MORMON  CHURCH,
"SECOND  BEAST ?"
Rev. 13: 11
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Summery
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 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.

This "message" is primarily directed towards Mormons, and others who have faith and confidence in the B. of M.  D. & C. and the Bible. If you do not believe these books are the word of God, you will not have sufficient confidence to understand and believe what I here lay before you. Read this article and see if this "Second Beast" (Lamb) is:  
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints

Some of my intention with this article is to make clear that there exist a relationship between the churches of God, throughout all ages, that they have all in common:
They come into existence, exist a short time, for so to fade away.
The Mormon Church is by no means any exception.
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 people.

      "And now it came to pass that Zeniff conferred the kingdom upon Noah, one of his sons, therefore Noah began to reign in his stead; and he did not walk in the ways of his father."
     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.


    "For behold, he did not keep the commandments of God, but he did walk after the desires of his own heart. And he had many wives and concubines. And he did cause his people to commit sin,
and do that which was abominable in the sight of the Lord.
Yea, and they did commit whoredoms and all manner of wickedness."
    "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!

    "For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none. For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts,
or cursed be the land for their sakes. For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me,
I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things."    Jacob 2: 27,  30
    The Book of Mormon here gives us a clear message: The Lord of Hosts will command his people to practice polygamy, if he will raise up seed unto him. Otherwise it is prohibited and an abomination before him.

    "Yea, and they also became idolatrous, because they were deceived by the vain and flattering words of the king and priests; for they did speak flattering things unto them."
    They became idolatrous, because the people were deceived by their king and priests,
that is: their leaders. A
nd  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. They had no revelation from God. The Mormon church today is in some manner in the same situation as this apostate nephitic church.

    "Now when king Noah had heard of the words which Abinadi had spoken unto the people,
he was also wroth; and he said: Who is Abinadi, that I and my people should be judged of him,
or who is the Lord, that shall bring upon my people such great affliction?
    "Who is Abinadi?"  He is a true prophet of God, sent to warn this self conceited people,
their king and their leaders against their idol worship and the coming disaster.
   
"Who is the Lord ?" He is the one who sent Abinadi.
Abinadi's words angered them, because they considered him as a false prophet.

    "Now the eyes of the people were blinded; therefore they hardened their hearts against the words of Abinadi, and they sought from that time forward to take him. And king Noah hardened his heart against the word of the Lord, and he did not repent of his evil doings. And now, O king, what great evil hast thou done, or what great sins have thy people committed, that we should be condemned of God or judged of this man? And now, O king, behold, we are guiltless, and thou, O king, hast not sinned; therefore, this man has lied concerning you, and he has prophesied in vain. And behold, we are strong, we shall not come into bondage, or be taken captive by our enemies; yea, and thou hast prospered in the land, and thou shalt also prosper."     
    Mosiah 11: 1,2;  7;  27;  29;  12: 12-15
    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.
But they were inside the church, and therefore quite helpless.
The people were not able to do their own thinking.

    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 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 he was their mouthpiece of the Lord.
This King / President /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.
   
    "Lucifer wins a great victory when he can get members of the Church to speak against their leaders and to 'do their own thinking.'...
"When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done. When they propose a plan, it is God's plan.
When they point the way, there is no other which is safe. When they give direction, it should mark the end of controversy." (Improvement Era, June 1945, p. 354)

        This is clearly the blind leaderships philosophy, it keeps its members in a grip of steel,
”it bindeth them down, yoketh them with a yoke of iron.”  1.Nephi  13: 5

    I have heard these words before, but from another source.
Rudolf Hess, the Nazi Party leader, made a speech on June 30. 1934:

    "One man remains beyond all criticism, and that is the Fuhrer. This is because everyone senses and knows,  he is always right, and he will always be right. The National Socialism of all of us is anchored in uncritical loyalty,  in surrender to the Fuhrer."
    To this Adolph Hitler dryly remarked:

    "What good fortune for those in power that people do not think."

 B. of M. broadly speaks in high terms of the leaders of the church, but it has also this to say:
    "O ye wicked and ye perverse generation; ye hardened and ye stiff-necked people, how long will ye suppose that the Lord will suffer you? Yea, how long will ye suffer yourselves to be led by foolish and blind guides? Yea, how long will ye choose darkness rather than light?"   
    Helaman 13: 29
    "For the leaders of this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed."                 2.Nephi 19: 16
    "O my people, they who lead thee cause thee to err and destroy the way of thy paths.
The Lord will enter into judgment with the ancients of his people and the princes thereof;
for ye have eaten up the vineyard and the spoil of the poor in your houses. What mean ye?
Ye, beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor, saith the Lord God of Hosts"
        2.Nephi 13: 12-15
    These words of God are written that we may think.
    The dogma:
    "When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done," is not of God.

    "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.

     Chapter 13 in Revelation and chapter 86 in D. & C. treat the both Gentile churches,
let us consider "the first" (the Mormon church) in the latter days:
    "But behold, in the last days, even now while the Lord is beginning to bring forth the word, and the blade is springing up and is yet tender. Behold, verily I say unto you, the angels are crying unto the Lord day and night, who are ready and waiting to be sent forth to reap down the fields; but the Lord saith unto them, pluck not up the tares while the blade is yet tender (for verily your faith is weak), lest you destroy the wheat also. Therefore, let the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe, then you shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, and after the gathering of the wheat, behold and lo, the tares are bound in bundles, and the field remaineth to be burned."     D. & C. 86: 4-7

"then you shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares"
    Oh, little me! I thought the tares should first be gathered out from among the wheat,
then only wheat would remain in the church. Now, when the wheat is first gathered out from among the tares, only tares remain in the church, and the same situation occurs in our days,
as took place to the sister church after:   "the tares choke the wheat":
Only tares remain in the church of the Lamb.  

The main supporting pillar in my story is:

"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.

    The intelligent Mormon apostle Orson Pratt gives us this commentary:
    "You know that Scripture which says: The first shall be last, and the last shall be first!
Now, the Gospel, when it was preached in Ancient Times, was preached first to the Jews, the house of Israel, to those of Israelites origin, and when they counted themselves unworthy to eternal life, and rejected that Gospel, Lo says Paul, we turn unto the Gentiles. The Gentiles, then heard it last, they were last to embrace the Gospel of the Kingdom, and the Jews first, that is, as many of them as would believe and repent. But in the last days, when the angel brings the Gospel,
it is reversed, and it is preached first to the Gentiles, to bring in their fullness, and to fulfill their times, and then it will be sent to the house of Israel."     J.of D. 18: 176  Orson Pratt.

    "The Book of Mormon claims to be a divinely inspired record, written by a succession of prophets who inhabited ancient America. It professes to be revealed to present generation for the salvation of all who will receive it, and for the overthrow and damnation of all nations who reject it.
This book must be either true or false. If true, it is one of the most important messages ever sent from God to man, affecting both the temporal and eternal interest of every people under heaven to the same extent and in the same degree that the message of Noah affected the inhabitants of the old world. If false, it is one of the most cunning, wicked, bold, deep laid impositions ever palmed upon
the world, calculated to deceive and ruin millions who will sincerely receive it as the word of God, and will suppose themselves securely built upon the rock of truth until they are plunged with their families into hopeless despair. The nature of the message in the Book of Mormon is such, that if true, no one can possibly be saved and reject it. If false, no one can possibly be saved and receive it. Therefore, every soul in all the world is equally interested in ascertaining its truth or falsity."                     Orson Pratt.

"The first" the Jews  in Ancient Times.

    That Jesus really established his church among the Jews has to be considered as
  incontestable. He was not willing to help the Canaanite woman far north in the country, because she was a Gentile, and not of Jewish origin, this because it was not then,
the dispensation of the Gentiles. He said to her:  
"I am not sent but unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
This woman was denied help for her mental disorder daughter,
but because of her firmness and great belief in Jesus, she was yet helped.   Matt 15: 22-28.
    Jesus shows us some of the same attitude towards the Gentiles
when he sent forth his twelve apostles commanding them, saying:
    "Go not into the way of the Gentiles, and into any city of the Samaritans enter you not:
But go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel."
    He told them to preach the kingdom of heaven, heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,
raise the dead, cast out devils,
"freely ye have received, freely give."   Matt. 10: 5-8.

    Jesus was obviously bound to present the Kingdom of God to "the first", the Jews,
the Gentiles had to wait for their turn to come,
they are clearly, "the last" in the Meridian of Time.

Jesus was really in a hurry, he had only three years at his disposal for his period of service,
and he knew that the Jews would not be able to resist the attack of the Devil.
He told one of his disciples to follow him, but he said:
"Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father."
The answer Jesus gave him must be characterized as the most sensational expression

in the whole literature of the world:
"Let the dead bury their dead; but go thou and preach the Kingdom of God."     Luke 9: 59-62.

"The first" the Jews, are deprived  the Kingdom of God.

     "Therefore say I into you, the Kingdom of God shall be taken from you,
and given to a nation bringing forth the fruits thereof."    Matt. 21: 43.
    Here is a clear proof that the Jews "the first" have to give way, the Kingdom is taken
from them.
The Jews got Jesus executed, and this had serious consequences for them.
Jesus prophesied this:
    "As for these things which ye behold (the temple), the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down. And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled."    Luke 21: 6, 20, 24.
    These words of Jesus were all completely fulfilled. Titus, the son of Caesar Vespasian, encircled Jerusalem in year 70 A.D. and  a terrible famine broke out in the overcrowded town. Maybe 1 mill. Jews lost their lives, and even more were sold as slaves, others were driven into exile. Jerusalem was leveled with the ground, the temple was laid in ruins, and the Jews were deprived the kingdom of God, and their homeland. A cruel destiny struck the poor Jewish people, all this because they had rejected their Messiah.
    "And as for those who are at Jerusalem, saith the prophet, they shall be scourged by all people,
because they crucify the God of Israel, and turn their hearts aside, rejecting signs and wonders and the power and glory of the God of Israel.”    1. Nephi 19: 13.
    From then on the Kingdom of God was taken away from "the first", the Jews.
This Jewish church was "driven out into the wilderness."
    See: Rev. 12: 14-17;  D. & C. 33: 5;  86: 3

"The last" the Gentiles in Antiquity.

    Jesus said to the Jews that the Kingdom of God should be taken away from them,
and given to another nation bringing forth the fruits thereof, what nation, he did not mention, that it should be the Gentiles, for that, the Jews had no understanding or any form of conception.   But it should be the Gentiles, "the last" in Ancient Times.

    "Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you; but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, Lo, we turn to the Gentiles."  Acts. 13: 46

    That the Gentiles stand for the last evangelical dispensation in Ancient Times cannot be disputed, Paul calls himself the apostle of the Gentiles. He was commanded by revelation from God  to bring forth the gospel of salvation.    Acts. 14: 27; 18: 6;  22: 21;  28: 28.

    Act. 10: tells us that there was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion, a devout man, who feared God and gave much alms and prayed to God always. He saw an angel of God in a vision and was told to call for Peter in Joppa. Cornelius was not informed why this vision was given him. Peter was also given a vision and saw heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending unto him, as it had been a great sheet knit at the four corners and let down to the earth, wherein were all manner of four footed beasts of the earth, and all kinds of animals. Peter was neither given any explanation or announcement concerning this heavenly vision, namely that the kingdom of God should be handed over from the Jews,
("the first") to the Gentiles, ("the last.")
"Then has God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life."

    This church in Ancient Times, consisted in the beginning of Jews only. She was a direct successor of  "the first", (the Jews), with its apostles, prophets, pastors and teachers. The church was in possession of the higher, Holy Priesthood with all the gifts of God; prophesy, revelations, healing, miracles, speaking in tongues etc. They had all things in common ("united order").    Acts. 2: 44, 45; 4: 32-36;  5:1-11;  Luke 12: 33; 18: 22;  Also 4. Nephi 3
    The church received the promises given to the Jews by Christ himself:

"And upon this rock I will build my church;
and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it."  
"and, lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world."
Matt. 16: 18;  28: 20.

Most of the Christian world, despite its many different faiths, churches and  denominations,
proclaim that this promise made by Jesus will have effect
"even unto the end of the world."
How can a church like this after receiving such an assurance, and that from the Lord himself, fall into ruin? Yes, we have to admit: These are strong words!  
But the NT also hints at an apostasy, which will be quite destructive for the church.
  2.Thess. 2: 3, 4. Here arises a conflict.
Will the church be victorious and remain standing, or will she lose and fall?


Remember:

Satan has crushed into pieces all the churches of God throughout all ages.

With only one exception: Enoch and his church, but they were taken up into heaven.

    It is nearly impossible to understand that the Lord has given these great promises
unconditionally. Her sister church, "the first", the Gentile church, in the latter days,
has been given the exact same promises and information in our days,
but not unconditionally:

    "And upon this rock (revelation) I will build my church; yea, upon this rock ye are built, and if you continue, (to build upon this rock) the gates of hell shall not prevail against you."
"And inasmuch as ye are humble and faithful and call upon my name, behold, I will give you the victory:"     D, & C. 33: 13; 104: 82.
    Here the promises of God are given conditionally. If we do not continue to build upon this rock, and inasmuch we are not humble and faithful  and do not call upon his name:
    "The gates of hell shall prevail against us."

    "I command and men obey not; I revoke and they receive not the blessing; Then they say in their hearts: 'This is not the work of the Lord, for his promises are not fulfilled'. But woe unto such,
for their reward lurketh beneath, and not from above."    D. & C. 58: 32,
    "There is a law, irrevocably decreed in heaven before the foundation of this world, upon which all blessings are predicated. And when we obtain any blessing from God, it is by obedience to that law upon which it is predicated."   D. & C. 130: 20, 21

    "I will give you the victory". The victory over what? Over the Devil!  This victory over the Devil has conditions attached. If we do not obey the word of  God, we will surely fall. We will learn, that in spite of that the Gentile church in the Meridian of Time was fully equipped to withstand the Devil, and was given promises and blessings from Christ himself, and was in possession of a God given organization, in spite of all this, she was not able to resist the terrible attack of Satan. The proofs are many. I do not want to search the proofs from the historical facts, but rather from the word of God, and I will make it shortly: 

"The last" the Gentile church in Ancient Times is crushed by Satan"

      And it came to pass that I saw among the nations of the Gentiles the formation of a great 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 foundation of it."    1.Nephi 13: 4-6;
    Strong, evil forces in the church slay, torture, bind and yoke the saints, and bring them down into captivity. These destructive forces will now gain the victory.
Nephi is here witnessing the formation of a great and abominable church.
The Gentile church, "the Saints" in Ancient Times. She undergoes a transformation, from being the church of
God,
to becoming the church of the Devil. Nephi speaks distinctly and clearly.
He uses no obscure or symbolic phrases.
The church of God will now transform into
"the most abominable above all other churches."
  He uses the word "church" in order to eliminate any question about animals or other creatures we otherwise have to explain.
The church is under the attack
from  demonic forces, he leaves us no doubt: 
The Devil is the attacker.

"And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the whore of all the earth, and she sat upon many
waters; and she had dominion over all the earth, among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and peoples"        1.Nephi 14: 11.
    The foundation is laid for the great and abominable church. This demolishing process occurs at an early point of time and inside the church itself. Many parts which are plain and most precious, and also many covenants of the Lord are taken away. Baptism for the living becomes altered. Baptism for the dead is completely taken away, the Lord's Supper is mystified and changed, the apostles are killed, "the united order" comes to an end, as do healing, miracles, revelations, yes, nearly all the gifts of God. The transformation of the church of God is accomplished, the evil forces have gained the victory, this church has now the dominion all over the earth, the true and divine church of God has ceased to exist, this is:   "the great falling away."

    The apostasy of the Gentile church is described by the apostle Paul in this way:
    "For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine,  but after their own lust heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears, and they shall turn away their ears from the truth,
and shall be turned into fables."    2. Tim. 4: 3-5
    This sounds like the total apostasy, it is not a partial falling away

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.

    The Mormon apostle M'cConkie calls this passage: "Satan governs earthly kingdoms,"
and he makes this remark:
"The prophet Joseph Smith gave this counsel to missionaries: Declare the first principles, and let mysteries alone, lest ye be overthrown. Never meddle with the visions of beasts and subjects you do not understand. He then read Rev.13: 1-8 as an illustration of scriptural passages which should  not be used in presenting the message of the restoration to the world.
With reference to this passage, he named some of the speculative interpretations found in the sectarian world, said pointedly that they are "not true"; gave some explanations which show the general concept involved; but refrained from identifying those nations and kingdoms whose acts and course are set forth in the imagery revealed to John."    Doctrinal NT Commentary III p 520

    Here Joseph Smith, the prophet, conceals the knowledge and truth concerning this beast!
He knows very well that this beast is
the Gentile church in Ancient Times, "the last",
after having gone through a changing stage, from a Lamb into a Monster.
The reason why he is hiding this knowledge, is that he doesn't want his own
Church to know the real truth respecting this extremely important "first beast", because "the second beast," (his own church) lurks behind in the shadow! This passage from Revelation is the only passage in the whole Bible, that Joseph Smith warns against to study closer. Why this warning and why only against this particular passage? This first beast is contemporary Christianity, fully developed, with all its more or less different churches and religious bodies. The knowledge and truth concerning this disputed beast is: This is the Church of the Lamb in Ancient Times, the church of God, after being completely changed into a monster. John uses the strongest possible expression to make clear what the Gentile church has developed into, and there is no doubt, this is no longer the Church of the Lamb, it is a monster,
guided by Satan. John
sees here the same church as did Nephi 600 years earlier, but Nephi expresses himself in a way peculiar to him. John speaks in an obscure and unusual way,
he uses symbolic phrases,
but with the Book of Mormon as our background,
we understand very well what John means:
The church of the Lamb, the church of the Gentiles in Ancient Times, is here smashed into pieces by the Devil:


"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 have to be tested.

Satan is here given permission to fight 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.  
    D. & C. has also something to say concerning this Hebrew/Gentile church,
"the last" in Ancient Times:
    "Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servants, concerning the parable of the wheat and of the tares: Behold, verily I say, the field was the world, and the apostles were the sowers of the seed; And after they have fall in sleep the great persecutor of the church, the apostate, the whore, even Babylon, that maketh all nations to drink of her cup, in whose hearts the enemy, even Satan sitteth to reign, behold he soweth the tares; wherefore, the tares choke the wheat and drive the church (the Hebrew Church) into the wilderness."   D. & C. 86: 1-3   Rev. 12: 1-6

    
"
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 these latter days.
    In "the first vision", he was told "not to join with any of them."
That 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 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 condemnation. 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 represents today 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."
    The church actually finds herself in an extremely dangerous situation.
    "And your minds in times past have been darkened because of unbelief, and because you have treated lightly the things you have received. Which vanity and unbelief have brought the whole church under condemnation. And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all.
And they shall remain under this condemnation until they repent and remember the new covenant,
even the Book of Mormon and the former commandments which I have given them, not only to say, but to do according to that which I have written."  D. & C. 84: 54-57
    "Therefore, keep these sayings which I have commanded you that you come not under condemnation; for wo unto him whom the Father condemneth."    3.Nephi 18: 33.

    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!

    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,
these are the churches 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 Joseph needed others to write the Book of Mormon for him, later he had to learn writing,
God didn't just give him that ability.

    The following shows "the personality" of Nephi, that means, his way 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 this is the answer the Lord gave 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', as he said.

 John tells us: The first beast who rose up out of the sea, was already fully developed into a monster, but that monster was first a Lamb.
This second beast, coming up out of the earth, is a Lamb, developing into a monster!

    This "another beast "(Lamb) is:
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Days Saints and her denominations!
She is presented to us with her full name and address!
No other church upon the whole earth fits into this picture!

    Before making my commentary concerning this beast, let us first listen to the well known and famous Mormon apostle M'cConkie and see what this notorious beast means to him:

    "Other evil and devil led powers arise to exercise dominion over man in his fallen and spiritually degenerated state. The identity of these powers remains to be revealed. It will be interesting, interesting? nay, fascinating ! to see what the future holds as the full meaning of this passage
unfolds and the identity of the actual "beast" is revealed." (Sic)      NT Commentary III 523, 524.

    This is the learned and recognized apostle's understanding and explanation of
"the another beast" in the Revelation of St. John the Divine.
It sounds like an ordinary Methodist clergyman. He calls this section: "Church of devil works miracles."
    "The full meaning of this passage"?
This is a lamb, of course the church of the Lamb, the Gentile church in the latter days,
the sister church of "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 will 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 being a plagiarist,
and in this case we have to admit that his many enemies are completely right! (Sic)

    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.


    BLOOD  ATONEMENT 
    This false, cruel and abominable doctrine was essentially proclaimed by the church's second president Brigham Young, early after the Saints were well established in Zion, Utah, after the martyrdom of Joseph Smith, the prophet. The reader can make a decision of his own what this frightful and inhuman doctrine means, after reading Brigham Young's own model of explanation.   We have to take into consideration that B. Y. was a tyrannical person and ruled as a dictator, wherefore nobody dared speak against him.

    "There are sins that men commit for which they cannot receive forgiveness in this world, or in that which is to come, and if they had their eyes open to see their true condition, they would be perfectly willing to have their blood spilt upon the ground, that the smoke there of might ascend to heaven as an offering for their sins; and the smoking incense would atone for their sins, whereas, if such is not the case, they will stick to them and remain upon them in the spirit world. I know, when you hear my brethren telling about cutting people off from the earth, that you consider it is strong doctrine; but it is to save them, not to destroy them . . ."

    "I do know that there are sins committed, of such a nature that if the people did understand the doctrine of salvation, they would tremble because of their situation. And furthermore, I know that there are transgressors, who, if they knew themselves, and the only condition upon which they can obtain forgiveness, would beg of their brethren to shed their blood, that the smoke thereof might ascend to God as an offering to appease the wrath that is kindled against them, and that the law might have its course. I will say further; I have had men come to me and offer their lives to atone for their sins."

    "It is true that the blood of the Son of God was shed for sins through the fall and those committed by men, yet men can commit sins which it can never remit. As it was in ancient days, so it is in our day; and though the principles are taught publicly from this stand, still the people do not understand them; yet the law is precisely the same. There are sins that can be atoned for by an offering upon an altar, as in ancient days; and there are sins that the blood of a lamb, of a calf, or of turtle doves, cannot remit, but they must be atoned for by the blood of the man. That is the reason why men talk to you as they do from this stand;  they understand the doctrine and throw out a few words about it. You have been taught that doctrine, but you do not understand it".
    J.of D. 4: 53-54  (September 21, 1856)

<>    "I could refer you to plenty of instances where men, have been righteously slain, in order to atone for their sins. I have seen scores and hundreds of people for whom there would have been a chance if their lives had been taken and their blood spilled on the ground as a smoking incense to the Almighty, but who are now angels to the devil, until our elder brother Jesus Christ raises them up,  conquers death, hell, and the grave. I have known a great many men who have left this Church for whom there is no chance whatever for exaltation, but if their blood had been spilled, it would have been better for them. The wickedness and ignorance of the nations forbid this principles being in full force, but the time will come when the law of God will be in full force."
    "This is loving our neighbor as ourselves; if he needs help, help him; and if he wants salvation and it is necessary to spill his blood on the earth in order that he may be saved, spill it! Any of you who understand the principles of eternity, if you have sinned a sin requiring the shedding of blood, except the sin unto death, would not be satisfied nor rest until your blood should be spilled, that you might gain that salvation you desire. That is the way to love mankind." (sic)   
    J.of D. 4: 219-220 (February 8, 1875)
   
    Kill the thief on the spot !
    “If you want to know what to do with a thief that you may find stealing,
    I say, kill him on the spot, and never suffer him to commit another iniquity."
    These words represent the totalitarien- the lawless society.
This is Brigham Young; President, Prophet, Seer and Revelator in his habitual way.
Yes, we have to admit, he speaks as a dragon.

    "If any miserable scoundrels come here, cut their throats."  B. Y.

 "I say, rather than that apostates should flourish here, I will unsheath my bowie knife, and conquer or die. [Great commotion in the congregation, and a simultaneous burst of feeling, assenting to the declaration.]  Now, you nasty apostates, clear out, or judgment will be put to the line, and righteousness to the plummet. [Voices, generally, "go it, go it."]     If you say it is right, raise your hands. [All hands up.] Let us call upon the Lord to assist us in this, and every good work."  
    J.of D. 1: 83  (March 27, 1853)

    "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

    These discourses were delivered in full publicity by Brigham Young himself.
Has that man really God's mandate to say and do these things?


 "And the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab. . . .And  when Phinheas, saw it, he rose up from among the congregation, and took a javelin in his hand; And he went after the man of Israel into the tent, and thrust both of them through, the man of Israel and the woman through her belly, so the plague was stayed from the children of Israel.".  
Numbers 25: 1, 7, 8.
This is, may be, the scripture Brigham Young sought out for teaching his,  Blood atonement.
    "Wherefore, we speak concerning the law  that our children may know the deadness of the law;
and they, by knowing the deadness of the law, may look  forward unto  that life which is in Christ, and know for what end the law was given. And after the law is fulfilled in Christ, that they need not harden their hearts against him when the law  ought to be done away."   2. Nephi 25:  27
   
    "Think not that I am come to destroy the law or the prophets. I am not come to destroy but to fulfill; For verily I say unto you, one jot nor tittle hath not passed away from the law, but in me it hath all been fulfilled. And he said unto them: Marvel not that I said unto you that old things had passed away, and that all things had become new. Behold, I say unto you that the law is fulfilled that was given unto Moses. Behold, I am he that gave the law, and I am he who covenanted with my people Israel; therefore, the law in me is fulfilled, for I have come to fulfill the law; therefore it hath an end. Behold, I do not destroy the prophets, for as many as have not been fulfilled in me, verily I say unto you, shall all be fulfilled. And because I said unto you that old things have passed away, I do not destroy that which hath been spoken concerning things which are to come For behold, the covenant which I have made with my people is not all fulfilled; but the law which was given unto Moses hath an end in me. Behold, I am the law, and the light. Look unto me, and endure to the end, and ye shall live; for unto him that endureth to the end will I give eternal life. Behold, I have given unto you the commandments; therefore keep my commandments. And this is the law and the prophets, for they truly testified of me. In that he saith. A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth is ready to wanish away."    
    3. Nephi 12: 17,18;  15: 3-10;  Hebr  8: 13

    "And the scribes and Pharisees brought into him a woman taken in adultery; and when they had set her in the midst, they say unto him, Master, this woman was taken in adultery, in the very act. Now, Moses in the law commanded us that such should be stoned, but what sayest thou? .
he lifted up himself, and said unto them, he that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her. And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience went out one by one beginning at the eldest, even unto the last; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst. When Jesus had lifted up himself, and saw none, but the woman, he said unto her, woman, where are those thine accusers? hath no man condemned thee? She said, no man, Lord.
     And Jesus said unto her, neither do I condemn thee; go, and sin no more."     John 8: 3-11

    John tells us here straight away: This woman who was taken in adultery, "in the very act," just in the exactly same way as Brigham Young describes for us, has not committed a crime so grave and condemning, that she herself has to atone for her sin by giving her life as
"a smoking incense to the Almighty,"
and that the propitiatory sacrifice of Christ is not sufficient to give her the remission of sins, as Brigham Young will have us believe.
Brigham Young would not have cast a stone at her,
he would have put a javelin through her, and thereby saved her life, and himself being  justified in committing such a horrible crime. Brigham Young condemns her, but Jesus Christ forgives her.

    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 glory,

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 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."
Read: Numbers 14. chapter! !

      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 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. Ministering of angels? I have never seen, nor heard anybody who has uttered anything about this in my more than 47 years in this church, it is more likely that this lesser priesthood that "holdeth the key of ministering of angels," has been taken away as well.
Let us look at a few "proofs."
  

          The Lord commanded all these things to be obeyed!

Benson, president, seer, revelator, translator and prophet, "having all the gifts of God which he bestows upon the head of the church," has addressed the members of the church with this incredible question: Are we still under this condemnation'? by making reference  to the passage in  D. & C. 84: 56  "And this condemnation resteth upon the children of Zion, even all."

    This revelation given the church September 22. 1832 is about 170 years old.
Seemingly, for all this time the leaders of the church have been ignorant of this extremely
important question concerning the condition of the church, but what is the answer?
Of course the answer is: Yes! We are still under this condemnation of God, for if we were not, then Benson would not have had any reason what so ever to pose such a serious
and dangerous question upon us. By being unable to answer, Benson tells us: 
"The church is on its way to be handed over to the Devil."
Remember; King Noah, his priests, his people, they didn't know or understood anything.
    "upon this rock (revelation) I will build my church, and if you continue,
(to build upon this rock) the gates of hell shall not prevail against you."

The church has no connection with the celestial worlds,
for if Benson had these connections, then he could answer the question himself and not handed the question over to the members of the church. He is that man being nearest to heaven, he is by no means not just anybody, listen, what man he actually ought to be:

    "The power and authority of the higher, or Melchizedek Priesthood is to hold the keys of all the spiritual blessings of the church, to have the privilege of receiving the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, to have the heavens opened unto them, to commune with the general assembly and the church of the Firstborn, and to enjoy the communion and presence of God the Father, and Jesus the mediator of the new covenant."
    "And again, the duty of the president of the office of the High Priesthood is to preside over the whole church, and to be like unto Moses. Behold here is wisdom; yea, to be a seer, a revelator, a translator, and a prophet, having all the gifts of God which he bestows upon the head of the church."     D. & C. 107: 18, 19, 91, 92

    This revelation given the church from God, indicates that the president cannot possibly be in possession of the Melchizedek Priesthood. Benson gives us a clear proof that the church is on the road to destruction. Where is this rock of revelation, where are the gifts of God in this Gentile church in the latter days, those gifts so abundantly given her sister church,
the Gentile church in Ancient Times?

    President Benson  assumed responsibility for the Mormon Church in 1985, 86 years old.
 He died in 1994, nearly 95 years old as in body and mind down broken old man.
He fell a victim to that unhappy, ill judged misfortune introduced to the Church in a commanding voice by the second president of the Church, Brigham Young,
presented to  the Church under the name of "Seniority"  This became a horrible flaw,  forever crippling the Church future administration. This system has to be considered unserviceable. The "Salt Lake Tribune" says: "Steve Benson, (grandson of President Benson) suggested that the present policy, which requires that the Prophet serves for life with no possibility of retirement, is a system that obviously isn't working."
    Steve Benson tells us that his grandfather was struggling with encroaching senility during
much of his nine-year administration.
Steve was upset by the church leaders attempts to keep his grandfather's  actual condition from church members. He said: "I believe the church strives mightily to perpetuate the myth, the fable, the fantasy that President Benson, if not operating on all cylinders, at least is functioning effectively enough, even with just a nod of his head to be regarded by the saints as a living, functioning prophet."  
    He tells us further about: "Carefully staged photo sessions aimed at depicting an alert prophet seated in a suit before a desk piled with well-wishers cards and letters.
All designed to make it appear that President Benson is still at the helm."
     
"The notion that my grandfather's two counselors, Gordon B. Hinckley and Thomas S. Monson could review anything with my grandfather is nonsense."
    This testimony from Benson's own grandson is troublesome
, but trustworthy.

The prophetic word of the angel Moroni takes on both flesh and bones:
    "Has the day of miracles ceased?
Or have angels ceased to appear unto the children of men?
Or has he withheld the power of the Holy Ghost from them?
Or will he, so long as time shall last,
or the earth shall stand, or there shall be one man upon the face thereof to be saved?
    Behold I say unto you; Nay; for it is by faith that miracles are wrought; and it is by faith that angels appear and minister unto men; wherefore, if this things have ceased wo be unto the children of men, for it is because of unbelief, and all is vain."
    "And again, I exhort you, my brethren, that ye deny not the gifts of God,
for they are many; and they come from the same God.
    And there are different ways that these gifts are administered; but it is the same God who works all in all; and they are given by the manifestation of the Spirit of God unto men, to profit them, one is given by the Spirit of God, that he may teach the word of wisdom,
another, that he may teach the word of knowledge, another, exceedingly great faith,
another, the gift of healing by the same spirit,
to another, that he may work mighty miracles,
another, that he may prophesy concerning all things,
another the beholding of angels, all kinds of tongues,

the interpretation of languages and of divers kinds of tongues
and all these gifts of which I have spoken, which are spiritual,
never will be done away, even as long as the world shall stand,

only according to the unbelief of the children of men.
    And now I speak unto all the ends of the earth that if the day cometh that the power and gifts of God shall be done away among you, it shall be because of unbelief. And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the children of men, is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the right way,  and know not the God in whom they should trust."
    Moroni 7: 35-37; 10: 8-17, 19, 24;   Mormon 9: 20    Also: D. & C. 46: 17-26

    This is devastating, a destructive blow against the whole Mormon church!
Where are all these things?
   
This prophetic word of Moroni was given 400 years  after Christ, it points towards our
own times.

    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 47 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 78 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 command- ment, 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.
    (Compare; Jeremiah 1: 5)
   
    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 wild branches began to be plucked off and to be cast away."

        ISRAEL: "The last in the latter days."
"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,"
they are inside and not outside the Mormon Church !

    
    "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, he 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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