Show DISCOURSE BY elder ender P DELIVERED I 1 ji lit the first nard ward schoolhouse school house sunday afternoon dec r 1873 sf S TY DAVID NV ceas EVAS S 1 wr wn will commence our discourse by reading 1 part barid and the tiie 1 ath and sections of a 1 revelation december 1832 contained in the book of doctrine and covenants and angels shall fly through the midat of heaven crying with a aloud loud voice founding dundin the trump of god sayid say ing I 1 prepare ye prepare yv ye 0 inhabitants ants of tile tiie earth for the judgment of our god is come conle hebold behold and lo 10 the tho bridegroom cometh corneth commeth go ye out to meet him I 1 arld alid and arid immediately dimmed lately there th ere ab shall shail at I 1 appear it a great sign in heaven and arid all people shall see it together and another an anel angel el shall sou sound lound ild iid rid his trump saying g that diat great church the mother of abominations that made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication that perse the saints of go god that shed their blood her who sitt eth upon many waters arid and upon the islands of orthe the sea behold she is the tares of the earth she is bound in lit bundles bundies bundies her bands are made strong no man can ean loose them therefore she la ready ready readi to be burned and he shall sound bound his trump both long arld and hud arld and all nations shall hear and there shall be i silence in he heaven neu nen aeu for the space e of half an ary hour ilour and immediately after shall the tile curtain of heaven be unfolded as a scroll is unfolded after it is rolled up arid and the tile face of tile the lord sh allbe alibe be unveiled and arid the saints that are upon the earth who are aie alive shall be quickened and be caught up to meet mill him and the they y who have slept in their graves shall shail gome dome come forth for their graves shall bo be opened and they albA aisa alho albo shan liall shaU be bp caught up to meet him in of the tile pillar of lie lic heaven eiven eaven they nio nie lre christ Ch rias rius tile the first flutts they who shall shail descend with him 11 abt and alicy who are oil on the earth and in their graven graves who are ane caught up to meet him and al 41 alli thisby by the voice or of tile tiie soun sounding ding of tile tiie trump of the angel of god this revelation was wa given through c our prophet and seer and reve revelator lato r JL joseph epli epil smith who was one of the greatest men who whoever ever lived in thi this prObation oue one of the greatest troph C ite ete is with the exception of our lord arid and savior jesus jesu s t hrit ever sent to tj t j our earth I 1 think it i is forty furty one years yeats yesterday since this thia revelation was given in it dve are revealed inarik ina lna things pertaining to the salvat ion ot of the children of men inen and ning to the great and event ful works of the lord which are blout elout 1 I bou it tv tu take place oil on the he earth in the sections preceding which I 1 have read we have an account or of certain great events that have not vet after the testimonies of the servants of god limong among the nations coffees comes the tet testimony timons of many judgments which will be poured upon the nations such fuch as earthquakes wars the sea heaving beyond its bounds and a variety of calamities which make the hearts of all the wicked fall fail them for fear after these great judgments are poured upon the nations of the earth then will be fulfilled the words which I 1 have read and angels will fly through the tile midst of heaven sounding the trump of god goo saying prepare ye prepare ye 0 inhabitants of the earth for the judgment of our god is come behold and lo 10 Bridegroom the co cometh conleth nieth go ye out to meet him after these angels have flown through the midst of heaven calling upon the inhabitants of the earth eaith to prepare for the coming of tile the bridegroom seven more ant angels gels geis ure are to sound their trumps tile tiie the first one sounds and his proclamation procla la is concerning great babylon on who who has made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication concerning her who vrho sits upon many waters who has her dominion among many nations kin kindreds deeds tongues and people behold she is the tares of all the earth she is bound in bundles her bands are made strong no man mail can loose them therefore she is ready to be burned and he shall hall s sound his trump both long and loud and all nations shall hear it there must be something connected with th the sounding of this trump that is miraculous in order I 1 hat silat all nations may hearit hear henr it any sound that can be produced reproduced by mortal man does not reach generally speaking over about thirty miles from where it originates which is a i very small space indeed but there will be something connected with the sounding of the trump of the first of the seven angels which will malli manifest fest a power which we know nothing of the sound of that tru trump in p will be heard by all people nations kindreds and tongues in the four quarters of our globe I 1 do not know that tile the sound will be so much louder than some we have heard but it will wili be carried by some miraculous power powen so that all people will hear it immediately after the sounding of this trump there lii ili will III be silence in heaven for the space of half an hour whether the half hour here spoken of is accord according in to our reckoning thirty minutes or whether it fe be according to the reckoning of tile the lord we do not know we know that the word hour is used in some portions of the scriptures to represent quite a lengthy period of time for hi stance we the latter day saints are living in the eleventh hour that is in the eleventh period of time and for aught we know the half hour during which silence is to prevail in beav heaven en may be quite luite all an extensive period of time during the period of silence all things are perfectly still no angels flying during th that ithai ithal hair half hour no trumpets sounding no noise noise 1 in n the heavens above but immediately after this great silence the curtain of heaven shallie shall shail he unfolded as a scroll is unfolded school children who are in the ha hit bit of seeing maps liun hung up on the wall know that they have rollers upon which they are rolled up and that to expose the face of the tile maps they are let down so will the curtain of heaven be unrolled to SQ that the people may gaze upon those celestial beings who will make their appearance pe arance in the clouds cloud 4 the face of the lord will be unveiled and those who are alive will be quickened and they willbe will be caught up arid and the saints who are in their graves will come north forth and be caught up together with those who are quick quickened ened arld alid and arid they tuy will be taken into tiie the heavens into the midst or of those celestial beings c who will bill make t ii el r appearance at that time these are the ones gnes who are the first fruits that is ig the first fruits at the time of his coming ethere was a period stonie some eighteen centuries ago when the saints arose from their graves after ater the resurrection of christ lie he being the first fruits that is called in the book of mormon the first resurrection it took place about the time or a little after the resurrection jestis jesus but when lie he comes the tho second time the first fruits of the resurrection will be the saints who come out or of their graves they in connection with tile the saints of all ages will be tie the church of the first born borai and they will descend with the savior when wilen lie comes there are some who suppose when these saints are thus resurrected and taken up into heaven that this will be the precise period wilen when jesus will descend on the earth but I 1 wish to correct this idea by the aid of both old and new revelation instead of jesus immediately mine descending to the earth when these saints are thus taken into heaven he will stay until the seven angels have sounded their trumps there will be quite a lapse of time between the sounding of each of these seven some gomo months will intervene they donot all follow directly one after the other or in the course of a few hours houra time but there will be a period between in which certain great and marvelous events will take place for ing instance tance if we read the revelations of st john we find that when the fifth angel shall sound his trump the bottomless pit shall be opened and there shall come forth a great smoke and a cloud of locusts so great that the sun and air ni r shall be darkened and these locusts shall have power to torment men five months before the sounding of the sixth trump trumps this shows that there will be a period of at least five months between the sounding of the trumps of the fifth and sixth angels read head also concerning the sounding of bf the sixth trump aud and you will win find that there Is isa a great work to be accomplished before the th seventh angel shall shail sound for in the time intervening between the sounding of the sixth and seventh trumps the four angels which are bound in the great river euphrates are to be loosed and they are to gather together a very great army ivl IVI if I 1 recollect arl ari aright gaiti that army is to consla consist of two hundred millions of people who who are to topie tople ride on some kind ind of benett or animals which tile the lord probably babiy bably by some supernatural means will prepare for the occasion these personages who come forth riding upon these beasts are prepared for an hour for a day for a month and for a year and their work is to slay a third part of the hosts of men then existing upon the earth and as they are prepared for an hour a day a month and a year it shows there will be quite a lapse of time between the sounding of the trump of the sixth arid and seventh angel we might bring up also aiso the tho declaration of john in relation to the two witnesses who are to prophecy about that period they are to prophecy three and a half years and their field of labor will be jerusalem after it shall have been rebuilt by the jews by means of their prophecies and the power of god attending them the nations who are gathered together against jerusalem will be dept kept at bay these prophets will hold them in check by their faith falth and power by and by these nations overcome the two witnesses and arid having nind find nin fin shed their mission they are slain and their bodies will lie three days and a half halt in the streets of the city then a great earthquake will take place I 1 a cc and these two witnesses witness ea will t bo a caught up to heaven all this takes place after these trumps be begin ginto to sound and arid if these two witnesses are to fulfill fulfil a mission of three and a half years it shows thattie that the sounding of the trumpets does not take place as many have supposed in rapid succession but certain events have to be accomplished between their respective soundings by and by the whole seven will have sounded and then they commence to sound a second time according to the revelation from which I 1 have read the second sounding of the trumpets is not to produce destruction among the tha nations but the tile sound of the tiie first one will gift reveal the secret acts of god his purposes and doings oil on the earth during the tile first thousand years the sounding odthe of the second will reveal the doings and purposes of the great jehovah during the second thousand years and so on until the seventh shall sound round the second time cime and pronounce the work of god finished so sg far as the great preparation needful for his second coming is concerned notice now that it is the first the first of these seven when the first resurrection takes place and all these great works are to be performed on the earth and years elapse before jesus descends with all his saints that is if we understand stand these things correctly by what little is revealed upon the subject there are many things which I 1 would like to dwell upon in connection with the resurrection of the saints and their being caught up into the heavens the subject of the resurrection is one that we all ali are very much interested in it is something which concerns I 1 all ali mankind more mome more or less but especially the tho latter day ilay saints who are now living on the earth we all see that our brethren and sisters us as well as the wicked are passing away leaving us they are called upon to lay aside these bodies which are deposited in the grave the they y are passing off by scores by hundreds and by thousands and we expect to follow them that is the most of us perhaps some may live until the coming orthe of the son of man or the sounding of the finst first t trump but inasmuch a as s most of us expect to lay our bodies down to sleep I 1 it must be interesting to every latter day saint to know something about the resurrection what can we know about it nothing except what the lord has revealed and let me here say say that perhaps no subject pertaining to salvation was ever so fully revealed to the inhabitants of the earth as that of the resurrection of the body many people have thought that very little has been be en revealed on this subject but it I 1 am not mistaken we havo an abundance although there are many things in regard to it about which we are still in the dark because they have not been revealed but if we will carefully search the revelations that have been given we may learn many things in regard to this creat great event which will be satisfying to our minds when we carry our friends to the grave yard we feel sorrowful because we have to leave them and because they aro are se separated painted from us j lor for a short shorb time all that kindness and sociability s oci ocl ability which existed are no more experienced and we no longer have the tile privilege of their society ty as we had bad formerly and consequently we mourn but what a consolation it is to realize that when our orr friends are laid down we are not separated from them for ever if they have died in the faith and if we ourselves gur pur selves endure faithful to the end for if we keep the commandment commandments we have an assurance and a hope within us which calv call cannot not be shaken that we shall rise again and that our bodies will come forth from the grave now let us try to understand how much is revealed upon this subject and in order to tb understand it let me refer you to some things that are coutt contained tined in the book of mormon on pa pago page go of that book we find something on the subject of the resurrection that which I 1 am about to read was spoken by the tile prophet ai amules lulek luick in the city of to a very wicked people who were shortly afterwards totally destroyed be because 1 cause causo of their wickedness enow now there is a death which is called a temporal death and the death of christ chiist shall loose the bands of this temporal death that all shall be raised from this temporal death the spirit and the body shall be reunited re united again in its eer perfect form both limb and joint 8 shall shail be restored to its proper frame even as we now are at this time and we shall be b ought brought to stand before god knowing even as we know now ani and and havea haven a bright recollection recollect icia of all our guilt now this restoration shall come to all both old oid and young both bond and free both male and fer female riale both the wicked and the righteous and even there shall not so much as a abair hair of their heads be lost los but all things shall be restored to its perfect frame as it is now how or in the body and shall be brought and be arraigned before the thi bar of christ the son and 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