Inspired Prophetic Warnings To All Inhabitants of the Earth

Now I am going to prophesy a little. The time is coming, when we will not be lettered by unjust laws that are imposed upon us. Why? Because the Lord intends, by his judgment, by wars among the nations that will not serve him, by famines, and pestilence, and by various judgments that will be sent forth, to waste away the nations of the earth that will not repent. This is what the Lord has decreed; it is written in the Book of Mormon, and it is published in the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, and we know their doom, and we know that it is very near at hand. It is not something to happen in a far distant period of the future, but it is right at the doors. God has sent forth his warning message in the midst of this nation, but they have rejected it and treated his servants with contempt; the Lord has gathered out his people from their midst, and has planted them here in these mountains; and he will speedily fulfill the prophecy in relation to the overthrow of this nation, and their destruction. We shall be obliged to have a government to preserve ourselves in unity and peace; for they, through being wasted away, will not have power to govern; for state will be divided against state, city against city, town against town, and the whole country will be in terror and confusion; mobocracy will prevail and there will be no security, through this great Republic, for the lives or property of the people. When that time shall arrive, we shall necessarily want to carry out the principles of our great constitution and, as the people of God, we shall want to see those principles magnified, according to the order of union and oneness which prevails among the people of God. We can magnify it, and all be united without having democrats or republicans and all kinds of religions; we can magnify it according to the spirit and letter of the constitution, though we are united in politics, religion, and everything else.

Well then, to return to the prophesying, when the time shall come that the Lord shall waste away this nation, he will give commandment to this people to return and possess their own inheritance which they purchased some forty-four years ago in the state of Missouri. We own a great deal of land there, which we paid our money for. We purchased lands in Jackson, Clay, Caldwell, Davies, and Ray counties in that State. That land was taken from us by mobocracy; we were driven from it. We expect to go back there, and when we do we shall begin to carry out, in all its fullness, so far as we have understanding, the celestial law in regard to consecration. All that this people have will be put into the hands of the servants of God, and each one will receive his stewardship at their hands, without any law interfering from abroad, and all will render an account of their stewardships; and they will fulfill and execute every law pertaining to their stewardships, and pertaining to the income and tithing thereof, and all will be fulfilled according to the letter of the law. Then this people will be united and then will be a commencement of the fulfillment of that prayer of our Saviour, repeated so frequently among all Christian nations, a portion of which says -- "Thy will be done on earth as it is done in heaven." That will be the nucleus or beginning of it, but there will be an approximation to it, here in these mountains. We will learn a great many pure principles to enable us to carry out the law as far as we possibly can, under the circumstances that we are placed in here, but then there will be a full execution of that law.

Now that order of things will continue and will spread forth from that nucleus in Jackson county and the western counties of Missouri and the eastern counties of Kansas, where this people will be located, and it will spread abroad for hundreds and hundreds of miles, on the right hand and the left, east, west, north and south from the great central city, and all the people will be required to execute the law in all their stewardships, and then there will be a oneness and union which will continue, and it will spread wider and wider, and become greater and greater, until the desolate cities of the Gentiles will be inhabited by the Saints. Then will be fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, in which he says, "Thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited," for God will visit them in judgment, and there will be no owners left to occupy the country. Then the land will be filled up with Saints, those who will keep the celestial law; and they will receive their stewardships according to the appointment of heaven.

By and by the time will come for Jesus to appear, and he will bring the heavenly society which has been engaged for thousands of years in that celestial world in carrying out these principles. They will come down here, and they will find a society just like themselves, so far as union is concerned; they will find a people perfected and carrying out the principles here on earth, as they are carried out in the heavens. They will join with us, and we with them. But before the heavenly hosts appear, all the nations of the wicked will be wasted away, and then it will be said, that the kingdom and the greatness of the kingdom, under the whole heaven, are in the hands of the Saints of the Most High. Then this sentence of the Lord's prayer will be fulfilled.

This is my prophecy and it is rounded upon the word of God, upon the revelations of the Most High, and it will surely come to pass, and many of the youth of this people will live to see the nucleus of this glorious work commenced at the central place of gathering among the Saints of the Most High God. How important it is then, if the will of God is to be done here on earth as it is done in heaven, that we should begin to learn these lessons here in these mountains, so far as we possibly can! How important it is that there should be a reformation among the people and that these foolish, false fashions, and this great-extravagance which exist here, and this importation of millions of dollars worth of merchandise from abroad into this Territory, to be consumed upon the lusts this people, should cease! How important it is that there should be a general and thorough reformation in regard to all these things; I have often wondered how the colony of the Jaredites flourished when they landed in this north country. They had not the opportunity of importing; they could not run all over the world and do as we do--import ten thousand things they had no real need of, but they had to go without everything they could not raise or manufacture among themselves. The same was the case with the colony of Israelites who landed in South America. They could not go from nation to nation and import their luxuries and their fashions, but all their blessings pertaining to food and raiment were those that they themselves produced or manufactured.

And the time will come, when we shall find ourselves restricted, and when it will be very important indeed for us to patronize home productions, and cease sending our millions abroad for importations, for the gate will be shut down, and circumstances will be such that we cannot bring things from abroad; and hence the necessity of the exhortation that we have received from time to time, to engage with all our hearts in the various branches of industry necessary to make us self-sustaining, and to carry them out with all the tact and wisdom which God has given to us, that we may become free and independent in all these matters, free before the heavens, and free from all the nations of the earth and their productions, so far as being dependent upon them is concerned. Then we will be a happy people, for we shall have an abundance of the good things of the earth, all that are necessary to eat and wear, all that are necessary to beautify and adorn our habitations, our cities, and our public buildings, or whatever may be necessary for the benefit and happiness of a great community, but not until that time shall come, for we are now taking a course that is calculated, in its very nature, to impoverish any people; for we are continually importing millions of dollars worth of foreign productions, while our exportations mount to but very little.

-- The Deseret Evening News, Vol. 8, No. 265, October 2, 1875.

For it shall be given you by the Holy Ghost to know my will concerning those kings and authorities, even what shall befall them in a time to come. For, behold, I am about to call upon them to give heed to the light and glory of Zion, for the set time has come to favor her. Call ye, therefore, upon them with loud proclamation, and with your testimony, fearing them not, for they are as grass, and all their glory as the flower thereof which soon falleth, that they may be left also without excuse. And that I may visit them in the day of visitation, when I shall unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the oppressor among hypocrites, where there is gnashing of teeth, if they reject my servants. (D. & C. 124:5-8)