As I mentioned in my last post, Nephi threw in a couple chapters from Isaiah, ending with this verse (Isaiah 49:26):
And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine. 1 Nephi 21:26
Now he explains who the "they" are.
And the blood of that great and abominable church, which is the whore of all the earth, shall turn upon their own heads; for they shall war among themselves, and the sword of their own hands shall fall upon their own heads, and they shall be drunken with their own blood. 1 Nephi 22:13
Catholics! Someday they'll all get drunk on their own blood.
And whoever fights against Zion (the Mormons) will be destroyed along with the blood-drunk Catholics.
All that fight against Zion shall be destroyed, and that great whore, who hath perverted the right ways of the Lord, yea, that great and abominable church, shall tumble to the dust and great shall be the fall of it. 1 Nephi 22:14
There will be blood and guts and fire all death over the place.
The day soon cometh that all the proud and they who do wickedly shall be as stubble; and the day cometh that they must be burned. For the time soon cometh that the fulness of the wrath of God shall be poured out upon all the children of men ... that the fulness of his wrath must come, and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire ... These things must shortly come; yea, even blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke must come ... they who fight against Zion shall be cut off. 1 Nephi 22:16-19
But then God will raise up a great prophet, as great as Isaiah (Joseph Smith).
A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you. And it shall come to pass that all those who will not hear that prophet shall be cut off from among the people. 1 Nephi 22:20
Those that listen to the prophet and believe that "the things which have been written upon the plates of brass are true" (the Mormons) will survive and everyone else (that belong to other churches -- the kingdom of the devil) will be destroyed.
For the time speedily shall come that all churches ... who belong to the kingdom of the devil ... must be brought low in the dust; they are those who must be consumed as stubble. 1 Nephi 22:23
The things which have been written upon the plates of brass are true. 1 Nephi 22:30
It's as simple as that.
And thus it is and so forth forever. Amen.
And thus it is. Amen. 1 Nephi 22:31
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4 comments:
Weird, I thought the D&C said even the terrestial folks will not be destroyed come the millenium.
Wow and I though the bible was dumb, still the book of mormon doesn't even come close to the book of revelations. Well I guess getting drunk on thier own blood is better than your messiha coming to get drunk on most everybodies blood.
LOL well the bible's end of the world senerio should have already happened, according to that fake jesus and pual guys.
Mr. Wells what does the quran and book of mormon say about timelines? Does it say something similar to the bible(jesus said "I will not tarry"), did muhammad and smith say the end is coming soon?
Catholics had better had gotten their hep-A & B shots.
Just so you know, I am a believing Mormon and have never believed that the great and abominable church was the Catholics. It is figurative and could mean any institution or group that places the things of the world above God. And getting drunk on their own blood refers to the amount of hate they will have that they will cause wars and killings among themselves.
This is what we are actually taught from our manuals at church:
http://www.lds.org/manual/book-of-mormon-student-manual/chapter-4-1-nephi-12-15?lang=eng&query=%22great+and+abominable+church%22
“In relation to the kingdom of God, the devil always sets up his kingdom at the very same time in opposition to God” (Joseph Smith, in History of the Church, 6:364).
•Elder Bruce R. McConkie (1915–85) of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles defined the great and abominable church: “The titles church of the devil and great and abominable church are used to identify all … organizations of whatever name or nature—whether political, philosophical, educational, economic, social, fraternal, civic, or religious—which are designed to take men on a course that leads away from God and his laws and thus from salvation in the kingdom of God” (Mormon Doctrine, 2nd ed. [1966], 137–38).
•One commentator explained that the great and abominable church consists of more than one entity:
“Actually, no single known historical church, denomination, or set of believers meets all the requirements for the great and abominable church: it must have formed among the Gentiles; it must have edited and controlled the distribution of the scriptures; it must have slain the Saints of God, including the Apostles and prophets; it must be in league with civil governments and use their police power to enforce its religious views; it must have dominion over all the earth; it must pursue great wealth and sexual immorality; and it must last until close to the end of the world. No single denomination or system of beliefs fits the entire description. Rather, the role of Babylon has been played by many different agencies, ideologies, and churches in many different times."
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