Inspired Prophetic Warnings To All Inhabitants of the Earth

To the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and to all the world,

Greeting: I feel desirous to once more; while in the flesh, by the word of God and testimony of Jesus Christ, bear my testimony unto you as the church and kingdom of God, established on the earth by the God of heaven in this last dispensation and fulness of times. I also wish to bear my testimony to all nations under heaven, emperors, kings, presidents, statesmen, governors, judges, all rulers, and the ruled who dwell upon the face of the whole earth. My testimony is unto all men and nations, that you live in the day and the hour of the judgments of God Almighty. You live in the day and generation when the God of Israel has set his hand to perform his work, his strange work in the latter days. You live in the age in which God will bring to pass the fulfilment of that word of prophecy and prediction which has been spoken by all the prophets since the world began, which stands recorded in the sacred books of divine truth, and the fulfillment of these revelations will involve the destiny of the whole world, Jew and Gentile, rich and poor, high and low, saint and sinner, Babylon and Zion. Therefore prepare yourself, O ye inhabitants of the earth, for the hour of God's judgment is at the door. As it was in the days of Noah and of Lot, so shall it be in the day of the coming of the Son of Man."

"These events referred to are but a very limited portion of the revelations of God which are about to be fulfilled upon the heads of this generation. I wish to warn all nations of the judgments of God which are at their doors. Thrones will be cast down, nations will be overturned, anarchy will reign, all legal barriers will be broken down, and the laws will be trampled in the dust. You are about to be visited with war, the sword, famine, pestilence, plague, earthquakes, whirlwinds, tempests, and with the flame of devouring fire. By fire and with the sword will God plead with all flesh, and the slain of the Lord will be many. The anger of the Lord is kindled and his sword is bathed in heaven, and is about to fall upon Idumea, or the world. And who is able to abide these things? And who will stand when he appeareth? The fig trees are leafing and the signs of heaven and earth indicate the coming of the Son of Man. The seals are about to be opened; the plagues to be poured forth. Your rivers and seas will be turned into blood and to gall. And the inhabitants of the earth will die of plagues. And the unbelief of great Babylon, with the whole Christian world, will not make the truths of God without effect.

Let the world look, for example, at the ancient cities of the nations. Where is Thebes, Tyre, Sidon, Ninevah, and Babylon the great, which were built to defy all time, and all power but God himself? They were laid in the dust and their inhabitants destroyed, when they were ripened in iniquity, and this to, in the fulfillment of the word of God unto them through the voices of righteous men, who spake as they were moved upon by the Holy Ghost. In like manner was Jerusalem destroyed and the Jews scattered among the Gentiles in the fulfillment of the words of Moses and Jesus Christ. Will the Lord any more spare the cities of the Gentiles and Great Babylon, than the ancient cities and the cities of the Jews? No, verily no. The question may be asked why these judgments are coming upon the world in the last days? I answer because of the wickedness of the inhabitants thereof. The very proclamation of the angel of God when he delivered the fullness of the Gospel as revealed in the Revelations of St. John was, "Crying with a loud voice, fear God, and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come." And when that proclamation was made to Joseph Smith the Prophet, it was half a century ago.

"Light has come into the world, and men love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil." The Lord has raised up prophets and apostles who have cried aloud to this generation, with the proclamation of the Gospel for half a century, and warned them of the judgments which were to come, and the inhabitants of the earth have rejected this testimony, and shed the blood of the Lord's anointed, and persecuted the Saints of God, and the consequence is this,

"Darkness covers the earth, and gross darkness the people," and the Lord is withholding His Spirit from the inhabitants of the earth, and the devil is ruling over his kingdom, and wickedness and abominations of every kind have increased a hundred fold within the last few years, until the whole earth is filled with murders, whoredoms, blasphemies, and every crime in the black catalogue that was manifest in the antediluvian world, or Sodom and Gomorrah, until the whole world groans under its abominations, and the heavens weep, and all eternity is pained, and the angels are waiting the great command to go forth and reap down the earth. This testimony I bear to all nations under heaven, and I know it is true by the inspiration of Almighty God, and the decisions of the Supreme Court of the United States bears me out in the opinion that the Constitution gives me the privilege of enjoying my belief and faith and opinion in religion, if I do not act. Therefore the acts and execution of all these tremendous events I leave for the God of heaven to execute, which he most assuredly will. What I have spoken, I have spoken, and I excuse not myself; and "though the heavens and the earth pass away, my words will not pass away, but will all be fulfilled," saith the Lord of Hosts. I subscribe myself an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, and member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. (Excerpts only.)

Millennial Star, Vol. 41, pp. 241, 245-6., April 21, 1879.