Show COMING JUDGMENT discourse awa ia 3 7 73 by A P sl orson pratt th the day of wrath burning bernin aid aad desolation to clone will beia in ia the tha house of the lord upon those who know int but disregard goia will t reported by D W kram arail alij concluded tn the ath verse verce joel says proclaim 30 this among among the gentiles prepare war wake up the mi clity men mea lt all this the men of war draw near let them come b K beata ur plows plowshares bits into words swords ln 16 1 t to speare let the weak say DO I 1 strong 1 A allye all ye eltheo and gather your selves to together thir thi r round about thither cause aby thy mighty one to come down 0 lord the ll 11 L ird will conis come with all his Sainta iu in the ciozda of heaven lust just about the tha time thid ormy army gets gets into the valley of jehosha phat let the tha heathen be awakened and come up to the valley ofee hoshak aaa for thero there vill I 1 sit to judge 19 e all 11 the he heathen athen round about oil 6 4 harvest est la is ripe coffre gei tl you down for the press I 1 is full the tha vals vais overflow for their wickedness wicked nesa is great multitudes multitudes in tho tha valley of decision for the day of the lord is near the valley of da capion the sun and moon shall be darkened and the tha star shall withdraw their shining if you on want to know about the time lacoe alen the sun and moon are to bs be darkened and when the stars will no longer given any light and when there will be total darkness over the face of the tha earth here is an event predicted so that you cannot mistake when you see the nations of the earth especially the heathen nations and also alo those of coith jerusalem the great nation of russia and other nations on the continent of asia together with many in europe gather up spinet against Jerusa jerusalem iem after the jews have returned and rebuilt their city and te temple and when their armies become exceeding great multitudes in the valley of decision then you may look lur for ulu the lord to come down with his mighty ones and for the coh con etel stel lations of heaven to be ba darkened the lord also shall roar out of zion and utter his voice voica from jerusalem us alera and the heaven and earth shall shake but the lord will be ba the hope of his people and the strength of tho the children of isnoal 2 the children of isreal as well as judah will put their trust in the lord goil god of their fathers in that day and will look for deliverance from his liand land they will know that they cannot stand without the aid of the lord aga against install all those fiona the north quarters gog and magog mago b all the hosts of russia and ahe various nations round about that come coine up there and cover tile the land like a cloud they will know that unless the lord helps them they cannot obtain a victory over this mighty host but they will put their trust in the lord and he will roar out obion and utter his hi voice from Juer salem ealem and he ha will be the hope of his people and the strength of the children of israel so ahall ye know that I 1 am the lord your god dwelling in zion my illy holy mountain moun tair then shall Jerusa jerusalem leni be holy 1 and there shall no strangers ere ahr through ough her any more 9 and it shall come to pass in that day that the mountains shall drop drol down new wine and the hills bills shall how flow with milk and all the tha rivers of judah shall flow with waters and the fountains shall come forth of the house of the lord and shall ahall water the valley of ERN egypt nt fiall be a desolation and ezna eidom shall be a desolate wilderness der ness riess for the violence against the children of judah because e they have shed innocent blood in their land but judah shall dwell for ever and Jeruzal jerusalem em from froin generation to generation for I 1 will cle cleanse ariso their blood that I 1 have not cleansed cleans pd for the lord jorj dwell elli eth in zion L let et me make a few remarks here in relation to the difference between zion and jerusalem zion will b favored with the presence of the lord before the jews are permitted to behold him the lord will come to the temple of zion before lie he comes to the tha temple of jerusalem before he comes in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory sory lie he will manifest himself in the city an 1 temple of zion or in other words word all the pure in heart who are permitted in those days clays to enter into the lords temple in zion which will be built on this continent the lord will reveal his face unto them they will see him and lie he will dwell in the midst of zion ills Hs throne will bethere the land given to the children of ancient joseph now called the american continent will be the land of zion and the great central capital on this land will be the new jerusalem and tile the inhabitants of that city and their habitations will be overshadowed by bj the glory of god but after he has como come to 10 and toadied out of efti kal ae t has ein a to his tet i p l e and visited his people there in the character of a shepherd and dwelt in their midst for a long space of time he then goes with all his hia saints to old jerusalem the last work before the day of rest shall come being to visit aboe nations that are gathered together in the great to without the tha city on the east side of the city and there the blood ol 01 horses camels and men will be mingled together and in those thos small valleys vallea s so great will b the number slain that the blood will reach to the harses horbes bridles for a certain distance di according to the words of the lord I 1 do not know that I 1 have bave time to enter into a full fall investigation of some other terrible judgments that are to come but I 1 will refer to a few of them mentioned in the revelations of st john before doing to so however let me say for your information that the lord lor gave through the prophet joseph smith what nihat is termed a key to johns revelation reve revelation lalion the prophet on one occasion occasion asked the lord what was meant by the sounding bounding r of the trumpets of the seven angele angel and the lord answered him in this language as near ail can recollect As the lord made the earth and the heavens in six six days day and on the seventh div dav finished finie hed his work and made man inan out of the ot of the earth so in the beginning of the seventh thousand years will the lord god sanctify fv the earth and redeem redpa m man even all that is within his power and shall seal ecal all things unto the end of all things and the sounding of the tha seven trumps is the preparing and finishing of his work in the morning of the seventh thousand years this gives giver a clue to the time when the seven angels will round pound they chev will not sound their trumpets in the evenin evening of the sixth thousand years but when tha pix fix thousand years shall have passed passi d away from the creation and the morning of the seventh lias has commenced then these great events will ha hap pen jesus jebus does not come ii immediately it at the commencement ot the seventh thou tho and years year but as there was a work in the beginning which he be ner performed formed on the seventh day such as planting the garden and placing man therein so eo there will ile be a cert certain ain work to bi ba performed in the beginning of the seventh thousand years namely the resurrection and redemption of roan man inc including ludin e the heathen nations and those people in prison who have died without the law and have been punished for their sins when the lord has caused these seven angels to sound their trump s lie he will bring about all these purposes which lie he has haa ordained dai ried and which mut must he be accomplished complis hed bcd in that morning before jesus appears in the clouds of heaven they are to sound to prepare the way of the lord before his hia coming what will take place when they sound I 1 will tell you some few things when the first an angel ei sounds there will come the inhabit tants of tile the earth a great agrest hailstorm mingled with fire and blood and so severe will be this storm of fire and blood that one third of oatha the trees NN ft ill bo be destroyed and all the green grass will be burned up the second angel will sound his brumo and the lord will pour out his judgments upon the water and a third part of the sea will become blood and in consequence of the corruption thereof one third part of all the animals living in the sea will die when the third angel sounds bounds his trump john pays gays he saw a star fall from heaven to earth burning a is as it were like a lamp and it fell upon the fountains foun ains nod and rivers of water and they were turned into bitterness and the name of the star was called worm wormwood wood and great were vere the numbers of tho the people who pari perished hed and died because of the bitterness of the he waters the fourth angel will sound his trump and certain judgments will follow by and by the fifth angel will sound his trump and an all angel 0 will descend holding the key of what is termed the bottomless pit and he will open the door of this pit and there shall issue certain terrible waturs laU laurits tits an and J it will be given unto them to torment men five months tile the timp time which is to intervene between the sounding of the fifth and sixth trumpets and during that time these awful creatures such as neither ne illier we nor our fathers in all the generations before ua have ever seen on the earth will torment the these creatures have wings hair like women teeth like lions tails like scorpions and with their stings they will torment the wicked for five months but it will not be given unto them to lu destroy men only to torment them that will be a terrible judgment judg they will have a king over them whose name in the greek tongue is ia in other words worda the devil lie ile has power over them and with them and comm acda these awful beings and they go forth and torment the inhabitants of the earth but are not permitted to kill them men in those days will seek for death but it will wil flee from them although they will greatly desire it on account of the terrible torment they endure when the lord permits the devil to go forth and torment people he be lias has considerable power you cia can see this in tho case or of job bhea the devil stirred up the lord to torment job the devil was waa permitted to go and strike job with pasti pestilence lence with sore boils and to make him feel sorrow pain and distress said the devil to the lord ile he will curse you to your face and to prove whether lie he would or not job was sorely smitten and and ko eo will met men ha be hy by these awful creatures which wh ali will i ue from the tha bottona lees pit and abid are under his command bv iby and by bv the sixth angel bounds his trumpet and what will tike place the powers around tile the great biyer euphrates in asia ii ill lie be loo loosed ed and they will come foith tiding on horses and the number of them is two hundred thousand thou kand that is two hundred millions mill lons a great ane and tremendous army greater than the lia habitants of the tha earth ever saw 1 before who i will ill be with them this same class of beings with animals such as the earth never paw nor heard or of only as they heard of them in the rev revelations lations of st john animals with brimstone and fire issuing from their mouths having tails like serpents and heads to their tails an and 1 with these theo one third part of the inhabitants inh abitanta of the earth are to be destroyed how flow long will it be before they are dest destroyed roved there will beat be at least a year pass away between the sundi bounding Dm of the sixth and seventh trumpets this great army is ia pre pared for a day and an hour a month and a year now I 1 have named some of the judgment not all that will transpire r 0 bel beffie ole the coming of the sou son of man let me refer in ia a few words to soine of the last ones that will come before jesus makes liis his appearance called tile the seven seten last plagues I 1 shall only onla refer to a few of them one of the four beasts gives seven even vials filled with tile the wrath of god to the seven an angels 0 als that came out of the temple and tabernacle in heaver and these vials are to be poured out upon the earth we find that the inhabitants ire are to I 1 ie e visited with a greater juda then what they have been heretofore so PO much so that when the second angel pours out his viol via upon tile the great wat waters ers instead of a third part of them becoming blood they all lecome become is as the blood of a dead dad tana man and there shill shall not adiv any living thing lie preserved in tho preat mass of the waters on our globe but everything living in the sea will peri 13 the whole ocean becoming as blood of a dead man inan quite a difference between the blood of a dead man and the blood that comes irom from a living mau man one is very nauseous when compared with the other no wonder then hat everything having life in the tha sea should perikli A third abgel i pours out h his os vial on the fountains and river and ad they also become blood you have already learned that when the third angel sounded his trump the third palt pait of tile the waters become bitter with wormwood and it was d hy I 1 y ceria cera aft judgments not ual iv k but wb when j n the last lase plagues are poured out the fountains and rivers of water and the ocean become blood does this cause the people to repent one would imagine that all the earth would repent when they see judg ments of this kind yet we are toad old that for this the people will blas pherne pheine because of plague fores cores and pains and the calamities they have to endure they are given up to hardness of heart the spirit of god is withdrawn from them and instead of lecent ing of their evil deeds their murdes sorceries sor ceries whore doms idola tries thefts and various crimes that are mentioned they continue in their wickedness and judgment is poured upon them until they are consumed when the rivers and fountains are turned into blonda blood ii certain angel cries out saying paying abou are righteous 0 lord which art and wast and shall be because thou hast bast judged thus for they have shed the blood of saints and prophets and thou bast given them blood to drink for they are worthy this shows that there will be prophets in those days davs and that these people will thed their fil ti 00 oo loo 1 A great many people think ate aio to be no more pr ophes but the prophets have their blood shed hed in those days davs and god oil will give the wicked blood to there are arc many other things on ray my mind that I 1 would bo be glad to lay before you concern no the terrible judgments of the lie last days but I 1 have already occupied too much much of your time lime we ire are living in this territory comparatively at peace but bat unless tile the live according to tho the light aich i god has revealed to them they cannot escape if god sends judgments upon the nations nation le he will send them upon u if he cuts off the horses of the nations as he has said in ill the book of mormon that that he nill I 1 upon the face of this land unless we I keep eel his bis commandments he will cut ol 01 ouri oure if he visits visita tile the inhabitants of the earth with pestilence and blood lie he will visit us its in a similar manner onles wo we keep nil his commandments if the inhabitants inhabit nt 8 0 of f the earth who know not god are to perish because of their wickedness how touch much more will he visit those who havo have greater light and knowledge if they will not keep his commandments the lord sent forth the deb destroyer troyer in ancie ancient n t times time S to lay waste the first born of the egyptians pointing out tho 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