Revelation, 11 September 1831, John Whitmer Copy [D&C 64]
Source Note
Revelation, , Geauga Co., OH, 11 Sept. 1831. Version copied [ca. 11 Sept. 1831]; handwriting of ; docket in handwriting of ; two pages; Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU. Includes archival marking.
This and several other revelations, along with many other personal and institutional documents kept by , were inherited by his daughter Mary Jane Whitney, who married Isaac Groo. This collection was passed down in the Groo family and donated by members of the family to the Harold B. Lee Library at Brigham Young University during the period 1969–1974.
Andrus et al., “Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers, 1825–1906,” 5–6.
Andrus, Hyrum L., and Chris Fuller, comp. Register of the Newel Kimball Whitney Papers. Provo, UT: Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, 1978.
thithing of my People for he that is tithed shall not be burned for after to day cometh the burning this is speaking after the manner of the Lord for verily I say tomorrow all the Proud & they that do wickedly shall be as stuble & I will burn them up for I am the Lord of hosts & I will not spare any that remaineth in Babylon Wherefore if ye believed me ye will labour while it is called to day & it is not meet that my Servant & should sell their store & their Possession here for this is not wisdom untill the residue of the which remaineth in the place shall go up unto the Land of Behold it is said in my Law or forbidden to get in debt to thine enemies but behold it is not said at any time that the Lord should not take it any where he please & pay as Seemeth him good wherefore as ye are agents & ye are on the Lords errand & whatever ye do according to the will of the Lord is the Lords business & it is the Lords business to provide for his in these last days that they may obtain an in the land of & behold I the Lord declare unto you & my words are shure & shall not fail that they shall obtain it But all things must come to pass in its time wherefore be not weary in well doing for ye are laying the foundation of a great work & out of small things proceedeth that which is great behold the Lord requireth the heart & a willing mind & the willing & the obedient shall eat the good of the land of in these last days & the rebelious shall be cut off out of the land of & shall be sent away & shall not inherit the Land for verily, I say that the rebelious are not of the blood of Ephraim wherefore they shall be plucked out Behold I the Lord have made my church in these last days like unto a Judge sitting on an hill or in an high place to Judge the Nations for it shall come to pass that the inhabitants of shall Judge all things & all liars & hy hypocrites shall be proved by them & they which are not shall be known & even the Judge & his councillors if they are not faithfull in their shall be condemned & others shall be planted in their stead for behold I say unto you that shall flourish & the glory of the Land shall be upon her & she shall be an ensign unto the People & there shall come unto her out of every Nation under heaven & the days shall come when the Nations of the Earth shall tremble because of her & shall fear because of her terrible ones the Lord hath spoken it Amen