I might have rendered a plainer translation to this, but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands. 128:18
Glad tidings for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead; glad tidings of great joy. 128:19
And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets—the book to be revealed. 128:20
And again, the voice of God in the chamber of old Father Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at sundry times ... And the voice of Michael, the archangel; the voice of Gabriel, and of Raphael, and of divers angels,. 128:21
Go forward and not backward ... on to the victory! ... Let the earth break forth into singing. 128:22
Let the mountains shout for joy, and all ye valleys cry aloud; and all ye seas and dry lands ... And ye rivers, and brooks, and rills, flow down with gladness. 128:23
The great day of the Lord is at hand ... like fuller’s soap. 128:24
Let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the records of our dead. 128:24
I have many things to say to you on the subject; but shall now close for the present, and continue the subject another time. 128:25
There are two kinds of beings in heaven, namely: Angels, who are resurrected personages, having bodies of flesh and bones. 129:1
Secondly: the spirits of just men made perfect, they who are not resurrected, but inherit the same glory. 129:3
When a messenger comes saying he has a message from God, offer him your hand and request him to shake hands with you. 129:4
If he be an angel he will do so, and you will feel his hand. 129:5
If he be the spirit of a just man made perfect he will come in his glory; for that is the only way he can appear. 129:6
Ask him to shake hands with you, but he will not move, because it is contrary to the order of heaven for a just man to deceive; but he will still deliver his message. 129:7
If it be the devil as an angel of light, when you ask him to shake hands he will offer you his hand, and you will not feel anything; you may therefore detect him. 129:8
These are three grand keys whereby you may know whether any administration is from God. 129:9
When the Savior shall appear we shall see him as he is. 130:1
The angels ... reside in the presence of God, on a globe like a sea of glass and fire. 130:6
The place where God resides is a great Urim and Thummim. 130:8
This earth ..., will be made like unto crystal and will be a Urim and Thummim. 130:9
The white stone mentioned in Revelation 2:17, will become a Urim and Thummim to each individual who receives one. 130:10
And a white stone is given to each of those who come into the celestial kingdom, whereon is a new name written, which no man knoweth save he that receiveth it. 130:11
I prophesy, in the name of the Lord God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina. 130:12
It may probably arise through the slave question. 130:13
I was once praying very earnestly to know the time of the coming of the Son of Man, when I heard a voice repeat the following:
Joseph, my son, if thou livest until thou art eighty. 130:14
I believe the coming of the Son of Man will not be any sooner than that time. 130:17
The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also; but the Holy Ghost has not a body of flesh and bones. 130:22
Inasmuch as you [Joseph Smith] have inquired of my hand to know and understand wherein I, the Lord, justified my servants Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, as also Moses, David and Solomon, my servants, as touching the principle and doctrine of their having many wives and concubines. 132:1
I reveal unto you a new and an everlasting covenant; and if ye abide not that covenant, then are ye damned; for no one can reject this covenant and be permitted to enter into my glory. 132:4
The law [was] instituted from before the foundation of the world. 132:5
It was instituted for the fulness of my glory; and he that receiveth a fulness thereof must and shall abide the law, or he shall be damned, saith the Lord God. 132:6
If a man marry him a wife in the world, and he marry her not by me nor by my word, and he covenant with her so long as he is in the world and she with him, their covenant and marriage are not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of the world; therefore, they are not bound by any law when they are out of the world. 132:15
When they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory. 132:16
For these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are angels. 132:17
