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Show 32 FIRST BOOK OF NEPHI. FIRST Gentiles, and ihe remnant of the seed of my brethren, and al- BOOK OF NEPHI. 38 of ihe Devil, and also according to the justice of God, upon all those who will work wickedness and abomination before him. And ‘the angel spake unto me, saying: These last records which thou hast seen among the Gentiles, shall establish the saying: Thou hast beheld that if the Gentiles repent,it shall be well with them; and thou also knowest concerning the so to the Jews, which were scattered upon all the face earth, that the records of the prophets and of the twelve apostles of the Lamb, are true. truth of the first, which is of the twelve apostles of the Lamb. and shall make known the plain and precious things which have been taken away from them; and shall make known to all kindreds, tongues, and people, that the Lamb of God is the Eternal Father and the Saviour of the world; must come unto Him, or they cannot be saved; come according to the mouth of the Lamb; and that all men and they must words which shall be established by the and the words of the Lamb shall be made known in the records of thy seed} as well as in the records of the twelve apostles of the Lamb; wherefore, they shall be established in one, for there is one GO@ and one Shepherd over ail the earth; and the time cometh that he shall manifest him- self unto all nations, both unto the Gentiles ; and after that Jews, and also unto the he hath manifested himself unto the Jews, and also unto the Gentiles, then he shall manifest himself unto the Gentiles, and also unto the Jews, and the last shall be first, and the first shall be last. 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And it shall come to pass, that if the Gentiles shall hearken unto the Lamb of God in that day that;he shall manifest him- self unto them in word, and also in power,’in very deed, unto the taking away of their stumbling blocks, if it so be that they harden not their hearts against the Lamb; and if it so be that they harden not their hearts against’ the Lamb of God, they shall be numbered among tlhe seed of thy father; yea, they shall be numbered among the House of Israel; and they shall be a blest people upon the promised land forever; they shall be no more brought down into captivity; and the House ot fsrael shall no more be confounded; and that ereat pit which hath been digged,for them, by that great and abominable church, which was founded by the Devil and his children, that he might lead away the souls of men down to Hell: yea, thatgreat pit Which hath been digged for the destruction of men, shall be filled by those who digeed it; unto their utter destruction, saith the Lamb of God; not the ‘destruction of aw the soul, save it be the Casting of it into that Hell which hath no end; for behold, this We accorcing io the captivity of the: And it came to pass that the angel spake unto me. Nephi, covenants of the Lord unto the House of Israel; and thou al- s0 hast heard, that whoso repenteth not, must perish; theresore, wo be unto the Gentiles, if it so be that they harden their hearts against the Lamb of God: for the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvellous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other; either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds, unto their being brought down into captivity, and also unto destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the Devil, of which # have spoken. _ And it came to pass that when the angel had spoken these words, he saith unto me, Remember thou the covenants of the Father unto the House of Israel ¢ Lsaith unto.bim, yea. ¢ And. it came to pass that he saith unto me, Look, and behold that great and abominable church, which is the mother of abominations, whose foundation is the Devil. And he saith unto me, Behold, there is, save it be, two churches: the one is the church of the Lamb of God, and the other is the church of the Devil; Wherefore, whoso belongeth not to the chureh of the Lamb of God, belongeth to that great church, which is the nother of abominations ; and she is the whore of all the earth. And it came to pass that I looked and beheld the whore of all the earth, and she sat upon many waters; and she had do- minion over all the earth, among all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people. And it came to pass that I beheld the church of the Lamb of God, and its numbers were few, because of the wickedness and abominations of the whore which sat upon many waters; nevertheless, I beheld that the church of the Lamb, which were the Saints of God, were also upon all the face of the earth; and their dominion upon the face of the earth Was oo because of the wickedness of the great whore which Saw. 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