9:1 And now, I speak also concerning those who do not believe in
Christ.
9:2 Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation—behold, when
the Lord shall come, yea, even that great day when the earth shall be
rolled together as a scroll, and the elements shall melt with fervent
heat, yea, in that great day when ye shall be brought to stand before
the Lamb of God—then will ye say that there is no God?
9:3 Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb of
God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under a consciousness
of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy to dwell with that
holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness of guilt
that ye have ever abused his laws?
9:4 Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell
with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of your filthiness
before him, than ye would to dwell with the damned souls in hell.
9:5 For behold, when ye shall be brought to see your nakedness before
God, and also the glory of God, and the holiness of Jesus Christ, it
will kindle a flame of unquenchable fire upon you.
9:6 O then ye unbelieving, turn ye unto the Lord; cry mightily unto the
Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye may be found spotless,
pure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of the Lamb,
at that great and last day.
9:7 And again I speak unto you who deny the revelations of God, and say
that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor prophecies,
nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and the
interpretation of tongues;
9:8 Behold I say unto you, he that denieth these things knoweth not the
gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he does
not understand them.
9:9 For do we not read that God is the same yesterday, today, and
forever, and in him there is no variableness neither shadow of
changing?
9:10 And now if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth
vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up
unto yourselves a god who is not God of miracles.
9:11 But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, even the God
of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and it is that
same God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that in
them are.
9:12 Behold he created Adam, and by Adam came the fall of man. And
because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ, even the Father and the
Son; and because of Jesus Christ came the redemption of man.
9:13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ,
they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea, this is
wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to
pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an
endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power
of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both
small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and
loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal
death.
9:14 And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon them; and then
cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be filthy still; and he
that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is happy shall be
happy still; and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still.
9:15 And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god who
can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have all these things passed,
of which I have spoken? Has the end come yet? Behold I say unto you,
Nay; and God has not ceased to be a God of miracles.
9:16 Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in our
eyes? Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous works of God?
9:17 Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by his word the
heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his word man was
created of the dust of the earth; and by the power of his word have
miracles been wrought?
9:18 And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not many mighty miracles?
And there were many mighty miracles wrought by the hands of the
apostles.
9:19 And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God ceased to be
a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I say
unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he
ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.
9:20 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.
9:21 Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting
nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it
shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the ends
of the earth.
9:22 For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his
disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in the
hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the world, and preach the
gospel to every creature;
9:23 And he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved, but he that
believeth not shall be damned;
9:24 And these signs shall follow them that believe—in my name shall
they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they shall
take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover;
9:25 And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto him
will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth.
9:26 And now, behold, who can stand against the works of the Lord? Who
can deny his sayings? Who will rise up against the almighty power of
the Lord? Who will despise the works of the Lord? Who will despise the
children of Christ? Behold, all ye who are despisers of the works of
the Lord, for ye shall wonder and perish.
9:27 O then despise not, and wonder not, but hearken unto the words of
the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of Jesus for what things
soever ye shall stand in need. Doubt not, but be believing, and begin
as in times of old, and come unto the Lord with all your heart, and
work out your own salvation with fear and trembling before him.
9:28 Be wise in the days of your probation; strip yourselves of all
uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask
with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that
ye will serve the true and living God.
9:29 See that ye are not baptized unworthily; see that ye partake not
of the sacrament of Christ unworthily; but see that ye do all things in
worthiness, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of the
living God; and if ye do this, and endure to the end, ye will in nowise
be cast out.
9:30 Behold, I speak unto you as though I spake from the dead; for I
know that ye shall have my words.
9:31 Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father,
because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him;
but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our
imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been.
9:32 And now, behold, we have written this record according to our
knowledge, in the characters which are called among us the reformed
Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according to our manner
of speech.
9:33 And if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have
written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if
we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no
imperfection in our record.
9:34 But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also
that none other people knoweth our language; and because that none
other people knoweth our language, therefore he hath prepared means for
the interpretation thereof.
9:35 And these things are written that we may rid our garments of the
blood of our brethren, who have dwindled in unbelief.
9:36 And behold, these things which we have desired concerning our
brethren, yea, even their restoration to the knowledge of Christ, are
according to the prayers of all the saints who have dwelt in the land.
9:37 And may the Lord Jesus Christ grant that their prayers may be
answered according to their faith; and may God the Father remember the
covenant which he hath made with the house of Israel; and may he bless
them forever, through faith on the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.