scribes and pharisees, that persecuted me for they knew not why; neither do they know why they have condemned thy visitation. Let them read my Gospel over again, and see, where I commanded such a religion, or where I commended it? But I will tell thee where I condemned it: 7th Matt. Judge not, that ye be not judged. Let them pull the beam out of their own eyes, that darkeneth all their understanding, before they can see the mote, how to pull it out of the eyes of their brethren. Now I shall shew thee the meaning of these words. The Prophets stood as a beam before the Jews, because they had placed their own wisdom before their eyes; sơ that the words of the prophets were not understood by them, and the beam stood before them. And their own wisdom made them see a mote in the eyes of my Disciples,-that they could not clearly discern the Scriptures by an EYE of FAITH as my Disciples did; but they saw by their own understanding. Now this beam stands before them to this day but know, I said in my Gospel, many that professed to believe my Gospel, and to hear my sayings, would build their faith as weak upon it as a man's building his house upon the sand, for great would be the fall in the end. Só if men discerned my Gospel, and understood it, they would see there is as much reason to fear the unbelief when it cometh to the end, for those that profess to believe my Gospel, but understand not my coming again; as there was for the Jews to fear for their unbelief, when I came in the body. But now I shall explain the meaning of false Prophets, which I told them to beware of, who come unto them in sheep's cloathing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves; ye shall know them by their fruits. Now from these words, men are ready to see them as motes in believers, that they ought not to believe in prophecies because I told them to beware of false prophets. And now I tell thee there are many false prophets gone out in the world; and there are many false prophets besides those, that falsely pretend that the spirit of prophecies is given them; and he is a false prophet who prophecies out of his own heart, that all things will remain as they are, and that my gospel is already fulfilled;—these are false prophets, and yet they profess to prophecy in my Name, that all MY WORDS are fulfilled; but when I come to fulfil them, they will be proved to have prophecied lies in My Name, that say in my Name all is finished, because I said on the Cross it was finished; which I meant was the power of men; and the power of the devil that he had over me was then finished. But can they say from these words the whole is finished? How then should the evil Spirits cry out when they were cast out of men, "thou Jesus the Son of God, art thou come hither to torment us before the time?" Now, from these words, men must understand the devils knew a time was to come, when they should be tormented, and be cast out from amongst men: but they knew their time was not then come, yet they knew I was the Son of God that came to die for the transgression of man. And they knew the curse was pronounced upon them; and which they knew they must receive in time. But I know the thoughts of thy heart,-if Satan knew from the beginning the meaning of the words that were spoken in the fall, why should he be so hasty to work in man to put me to death to fulfil the one, that he might suffer the other? This folly in Satan thou marvellest at; and so thou mayst marvel at the whole; for if he had never tempted man to evil, after the curse was pronounced upon him; and had he repented of his evil, then I need not to have come down to suffer the one, neither should I have went on to fulfil the other, to cast him out, and take his power from But as he went on in the manner he began, he well knew from my words that were spoken, that my Spirit shall not always strive with man, but my delight shall be with the sons of men.-This was better understood by the devils, than by mankind, that I would not be always wearying myself by striving to keep inan from his temptation. Therefore Satan knew the time would come, that he should be cast out from amongst men: yet he expected his reign would be Six THOUSAND YEARS; -but know, I said in my Gospel, the days should be shortened. Here I have shewn thee I shall shorten the days, and bring on darkness upon the Prince of Darkness, that his reign may not go through the six thousand years. Here ends the Explanations of the Bible for the present; and now I shall insert a Communication given me concerning ANN MOORE. THE remarkable account of Ann Moore, of Tute bury, living without food, has been already published; and the truth of which was confirmed by the Rev. Mr. Foley, who went to see her in August, 1809. He gave the following account: "Ann Moore was sitting up in her bed, and had pillows before her, which she rests upon. She appears about fifty years old, and looks well in the face, though she cannot stir the lower parts of her frame, they being dried up, and totally dead; her arms as far as her elbows, are not at all shrunk, but appear like those of a person who is thin and healthy. She seemed to be perfectly resigned to her very deplorable situation. She told me, she had lived two years and five months without food, and she had lost her appetite by degrees, before she laid aside all sustenance. Liquids, in very small quantities, she took some time after she had left off all solid food but from October, 1808, she had never even wetted her mouth; and yet she has sufficient moisture in it for all the purposes of talking, and of comfort to herself-indeed, she is a living miracle." This account of Ann Moore being before published, and the truth since confirmed by Mr. Foley, the believers drew various judgments from it; some thought it was the fulfilment of the vision shewn to me in 1792, which is published in the third page of warning to the world, for they thought the description of Ann Moore was much like it; others drew their judgment, that it was not any fulfilment. To their thoughts I was answered. The Answer of the Spirit. To their inquiry I shall answer thee; I have left thee for a while, to try the wisdom and judgment of men, how far they discerned in what manner I spoke to thee at first. And now come to thy first visitation, where I to'd thee I should shew thee in dreams and visions of the night what I should do upon the earth. I shewed thee dreams of the wars, and the heavens being filled with men in armour. That MY SWORD WAS DRAWN. And they have seen the truth to follow on the earth, that the war have been, as I shewed thee in the beginning. But these are not the fulfilment of thy dreams, the wars that have appeared; for all must discern, what was to follow, the second Psalm to be fulfilled. “Ask, and receive thy full demands, "Now shall the heathen be; "Shall be possess'd by thee." Here men must discern the last is first, and the first is last; and they must discern how it is going on, to crush the nations every where. And this will go on until it come back to the first words that I told thee of the Psalm: "to have the heathens for my inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for my possession." So that seeing the wars appear as I shewed thee in the dream, is no fulfilment before the whole is accomplished. And know I told thee whereto it should end. "For all the earth to know the Lord, "And sing his praise with one accord.” For my decrees were fixed, like the bird I shewed thee in the dream; that nothing could break, nor nothing could pluck from my hands. What I had decreed to make was a full end of sin and sorrow. This men must discern from the beginning, how the likeness of the things appearing is not the fulfilment, before the whole is accomplished of what I told thee, the END should be. And in like manner stands this woman; it is no fulfilment of the vision I shewed to thee; yet, from her, all men may discern MY POWER; that nothing is impossible for ME to do. But this let all men discern, that some likeness of the skeleton appears in the woman; but let them discern what is to follow; for this I tell thee, and all men, it is a sure and certain sign that the fulfilment of that vision will be seen and felt by Mankind. And it is a sure sign of the famine that will be three years, according to the words I have spoken to thee. And let them discern in what manner she hath lived these years,-first, without meat, and then without drink,-for all seem dried up to her; and so that Nation will find, where I have pronounced the famine to appear. For as ye see the war go on from nation to nation, as I told thee, so they will see from this woman what I have power to do; and now they see that likeness to appear, they will see the other to follow, as I told thee from the vision; because I have shewn them MY POWER, in the woman, that they may see the shadows in her. But let them know the substance |
