0 Doctrine & Covenants( Section 98) : Absurdity

Their prophets shall hear his voice, and shall no longer stay themselves; and they shall smite the rocks, and the ice shall flow down at their presence. 133:26

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Doctrine & Covenants ( Section 98) : Absurdity (27)

  1. Renounce war and proclaim peace. Or I will smite the whole earth with a curse and everything livng thing will die. 98:16
  2. Renounce war and proclaim peace. Or I will smite the whole earth with a curse and everything livng thing will die. 98:16
  3. I'm not well pleased with many members of the Kirtland church. They do detestable things. 98:19
  4. I will chasten them and do whatever I list, if they don't obey me. 98:21
  5. If you are attacked once, bear it patiently and don't seek revenge. 98:23
  6. If you're attacked again, don't revile your enemy. 98:25
  7. If you're attacked a third time, bear it patiently. 98:26
  8. If that enemy escapes my vengeance, warn them in my name. 98:28
  9. If your enemy attacks you again (for the fourth time in your life or your 3rd or 4th generation descendants), I'll deliver them into your hands. 98:29
  10. I'll reward you (and your descendants to the third or fourth generation) if you don't kill them all.  98:30
  11. But if your enemy is in your hands, go ahead and kill them. 98:31
  12. That's what Nephi, Joseph, Jacob, Isaac, and Abraham did - as did all of my ancient prophets and apostles. 98:32
  13. But don't go to war unless I command you. 98:33
  14. If someone proclaims war against you, first wage a peace flag. 98:34
  15. If they don't accept your flag the first, second, or third time, come talk to me about it. 98:35
  16. I'll give you a commandment to go to war with them. 98:36
  17. I'll fight your battles, and your children's battles, and your children's children's battles, until you are avenged of your enemies (for three or four generations). 98:37
  18. But like I was saying, if your enemy attacks you the first time, and they repent, forgive them. 98:39
  19. And so on to through the second and third time, even 490 times. 98:40
  20. So forgive them the first time, even it they don't repent. 98:41
  21. And the second time. 98:42
  22. And the third time. 98:43
  23. But if they do it a fourth time, don't forgive them. Come tell me about it. They won't be forgiven until they reward you with four times whatever they took from you. 98:44
  24. If they pay you back four times, forgive them. If they don't, I'll make them pay 100 times as much. 98:45
  25. And their descendants to the third and fourth generation. 98:46
  26. But if their children or grand children repent, and give you back four times what they took, don't be angry with them anymore. 98:47
  27. Vengeance won't come on them anymore. Amen. 98:48

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