Inspired Prophetic Warnings To All Inhabitants of the Earth

And I now bear my humble testimony to all the nations of the earth who shall read this series of pamphlets, that the Book of Mormon is a divine revelation, for the voice of the Lord hath declared it unto me. And having been commanded of the Lord, in his name, I humbly warn all mankind to repent of all their sins, to turn away from all their false doctrines, and to forsake the precepts of uninspired men. Yea, come forth with meek, and humble, and contrite hearts, and be immersed in water for the remission of your sins, and you shall receive the Holy Ghost by the laying on of the hands of the Apostles or Elders of this Church; and signs shall follow them that believe as they did the believers in times of old; and all people, nations, and tongues, who will not do this, shall be damned, and shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of God, for this message shall condemn them at the last day.

Repent, therefore, all ye ends of the earth, for the great day of the Lord is at hand; the sword of the justice of the Eternal God will soon fall upon you except ye repent. Repent, O ye Kings and Queens of the earth, for the day of the Lord's controversy with the nations has come; and thrones shall be cast down, and your kingdom shall be rent asunder and there shall be no safety for you, unless you repent. Let the lords, and nobles, and all those in high places, repent, for calamity shall come from all quarters like a whirlwind; fear and terror shall encompass you round about, and there shall be no place of refuge for you in the day of the Lord's fierce vengeance upon Babylon.

Woe unto you, ye rich men, who trade and traffic among the nations, and who have heaped up gold and silver as the dust, for except you repent, your riches shall be despoiled, your trade and traffic shall cease, and ye shall howl for the miseries that shall come upon you; repent, therefore, and gather up your riches, and flee out from among the nations, and carry your gold and your silver with you unto the place of the name of the Lord of hosts, the Mount Zion, and make use of your riches as the Lord shall direct to beautify the place of the Lord's sanctuary, otherwise ye shall perish with your riches. Let all the bishops, and clergy, and priests of every denomination, repent and cease to preach false doctrines, and let them be baptized and come into the Church of Christ, and seek no more to fight against the Lord's work, for unless they do this, the Lord shall visit them in swift judgment, and they shall perish quickly out of the earth; for they are the ones that have corrupted the earth with their false, and vain, and foolish, and powerless doctrines; they are the ones who have blinded the eyes and hardened the hearts of the people against the Lord's great and last message; therefore, except they repent, there is in reserve for them a heavier judgment, and they shall gnaw their tongues for pain.

Repent, all ye inhabitants of the earth, lest the Lord shall smite you with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips consume you as stubble. Let all Israel repent, and turn unto tile Lord, and gather themselves together, for the time of the fulfillment of the covenant made with your fathers, is at hand--the time when all things are to be restored that have been spoken by the mouth of all the holy prophets since the world began--the time when the kingdom is to be restored to Israel, and the Lord God of their fathers is to reign over them in power, and might, and majesty, and in great glory from thenceforth even for evermore.

Divine Authenticity of the Book of Mormon, No. 6, p. 96, Liverpool, England, 1851-2.

Oh, that the people would open their eyes and discern the signs of the times? for if they will not take warning, they must perish! But they rush blindly on, giving no heed to the prophecies of the holy prophets, nor to the voice of the Lord which is kindly calling after them; nor to the voice of His servants, who are laboring day and night to rescue them from the coming evils! The voice of mercy falls listlessly upon their ears, or is entirely lost in the confusion of great Babylon! Gladly would we awake them to the sense of the awful dangers which threaten them; but the slumbers of death have taken a firm hold upon them, and they are prepared for the slaughter, and to the slaughter they will go. Let the Saints study the prophecies diligently, and then look at the signs of the times; and they will see the handwriting of destruction in broad and legible characters written upon all the thrones, and kingdoms, and nations of great Babylon.

Hear, then, O ye Saints, the great voice from heaven, saying, "Come out of her, O my people, lest ye partake of her sins, and receive of her plagues; for her sins have reached to the heaven, and God hath remembered her iniquities." Therefore, flee ye, get ye out of the midst of her! Stay not; tarry not, lest while you linger, some sore calamity or sudden evil befall you. We speak more particularly of the Saints in the United States. The destroyer is sent forth to lay waste and destroy, and his mission is to lay waste and destroy, and his mission is to the nations of Babylon, and he will not return nor cease, until he hath made a full end.

-- Washington, D.C., May, 1854. The Seer, p. 271.

And Enoch beheld the Son of Man ascend up unto the Father; and he called unto the Lord, saying: "Wilt thou not come again upon the earth? Forasmuch as thou art God, and I know thee, and thou hast sworn unto me, and commanded me that I should ask in the name of thine Only Begotten; thou hast made me, and given unto me a right to thy throne, and not of myself, but through thine own grace; wherefore, I ask thee if thou wilt not come again on the earth." And the Lord said unto Enoch: "As I live, even so will I come in the last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfill the oath which I have made unto you concerning the children of Noah; "And the day shall come that the earth shall rest, but before that day the heavens shall be darkened, and a veil of darkness shall cover the earth; and the heavens shall shake, and also the earth; and great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve.

"And it came to pass that Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son of Man, in the last days, to dwell on the earth in righteousness for the space of a thousand years. But before that day he saw great tribulations among the wicked; and he also saw the sea, that it was troubled, and men's hearts failing them, looking forth with fear for the judgments of the Almighty God, which should come upon the wicked. And the Lord showed Enoch all things, even unto the end of the world; and he saw the day of the righteous, the hour of their redemption; and received a fullness of joy. (Pearl of Great Price, Moses 7:59-61, 65-67)

Were we surprised when the last terrible war took place here in the United States? No. Good Latter-day Saints were not, for they had been told about it. Joseph Smith had told them where it would start, that it should be a terrible time of bloodshed and that it should start in South Carolina. But I tell you today the end is not yet. You will see worse things than that, for God will lay his hand upon this nation, and they will feel it more terribly than even they have done before. There will be more bloodshed, more ruin, more devastation than ever they have seen before. Write it down! You will see it come to pass; it is only just starting in. And would you feel to rejoice? No; I would feel sorry. I knew very well myself when this last war was commencing and could have wept and did weep, over this nation; but there is yet to come a sound of war, trouble and distress, in which brother will be arrayed against brother, father against son, son against father, a scene of desolation and destruction that will permeate our land until it will be a vexation to hear the report thereof. Would you help to bring it about? No, I would not; I would stop it if I could. I would pour in the oil and the wine and balm and try to lead people in the right path that will be governed by it, but they won't. Our Elders would do the same, and we are sending them forth doing all that we can, selecting the very best men we can put our hands upon--men of faith, men of honor, men of integrity--to go forth to preach the Gospel to this nation and to other nations.

-- J.D. Vol. 20:318.