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10/13/18
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Mormon Chapter 9
Moroni
calls upon those who do not believe in Christ to repent—He proclaims a God of
miracles, who gives revelations and pours out gifts and signs upon the
faithful—Miracles cease because of unbelief—Signs follow those who believe—Men
are exhorted to be wise and keep the commandments. About A.D. 401–421.
2 Behold, will ye believe in the day of your visitation—behold,
when the Lord shall come, yea, even that great day when
the earth shall be rolled together as a scroll, and the elements
shall melt with fervent heat, yea, in that great day when ye shall be
brought to stand before the Lamb of God—then will ye say that there is no God?
3 Then will ye longer deny the Christ, or can ye behold the Lamb
of God? Do ye suppose that ye shall dwell with him under
a consciousness of your guilt? Do ye suppose that ye could be happy
to dwell with that holy Being, when your souls are racked with a consciousness
of guilt that ye have ever abused his laws?
4 Behold, I say unto you that ye would be more miserable to dwell
with a holy and just God, under a consciousness of
your filthiness before him, than ye would to dwell with
the damned souls in hell.
5 For behold, when ye shall be brought to see
your nakedness before God, and also the glory of God, and
the holiness of Jesus Christ, it will kindle a flame of unquenchable
fire upon you.
6 O then ye unbelieving, turn ye unto the Lord; cry
mightily unto the Father in the name of Jesus, that perhaps ye may be found
spotless, pure, fair, and white, having been cleansed by the blood of
the Lamb, at that great and last day.
7 And again I speak unto you who deny the revelations of
God, and say that they are done away, that there are no revelations, nor
prophecies, nor gifts, nor healing, nor speaking with tongues, and
the interpretation of tongues;
8 Behold I say unto you, he that denieth these things knoweth not
the gospel of Christ; yea, he has not read the scriptures; if so, he
does not understand them.
9 For do we not read that God is the same yesterday,
today, and forever, and in him there is no variableness neither
shadow of changing?
10 And now, if ye have imagined up unto yourselves a god who doth
vary, and in whom there is shadow of changing, then have ye imagined up unto
yourselves a god who is not a God of miracles.
11 But behold, I will show unto you a God of miracles, even
the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob; and it is that
same God who created the heavens and the earth, and all things that
in them are.
12 Behold, he created Adam, and by Adam came
the fall of man. And because of the fall of man came Jesus Christ,
even the Father and the Son; and because of Jesus Christ came
the redemption of man.
13 And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus
Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea,
this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to
pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an
endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of
God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and
great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this
eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.
14 And then cometh the judgment of the Holy One upon
them; and then cometh the time that he that is filthy shall be filthy
still; and he that is righteous shall be righteous still; he that is happy
shall be happy still; and he that is unhappy shall be unhappy still.
15 And now, O all ye that have imagined up unto yourselves a god
who can do no miracles, I would ask of you, have all these things passed,
of which I have spoken? Has the end come yet? Behold I say unto you, Nay; and
God has not ceased to be a God of miracles.
16 Behold, are not the things that God hath wrought marvelous in
our eyes? Yea, and who can comprehend the marvelous works of God?
17 Who shall say that it was not a miracle that by
his word the heaven and the earth should be; and by the power of his
word man was created of the dust of the earth; and by the
power of his word have miracles been wrought?
18 And who shall say that Jesus Christ did not do many
mighty miracles? And there were many mighty miracles wrought by
the hands of the apostles.
19 And if there were miracles wrought then, why has God
ceased to be a God of miracles and yet be an unchangeable Being? And behold, I
say unto you he changeth not; if so he would cease to be God; and he
ceaseth not to be God, and is a God of miracles.
20 And the reason why he ceaseth to do miracles among the
children of men is because that they dwindle in unbelief, and depart from the
right way, and know not the God in whom they should trust.
21 Behold, I say unto you that whoso believeth in Christ, doubting
nothing, whatsoever he shall ask the Father in the name of Christ it
shall be granted him; and this promise is unto all, even unto the
ends of the earth.
22 For behold, thus said Jesus Christ, the Son of God, unto his
disciples who should tarry, yea, and also to all his disciples, in
the hearing of the multitude: Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel
to every creature;
24 And these signs shall follow them that believe—in my
name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues; they
shall take up serpents; and if they drink any deadly thing it shall not hurt
them; they shall lay hands on the sick and they shall recover;
25 And whosoever shall believe in my name, doubting nothing, unto
him will I confirm all my words, even unto the ends of the earth.
26 And now, behold, who can stand against the works of
the Lord? Who can deny his sayings? Who will rise up against the
almighty power of the Lord? Who will despise the works of the Lord? Who will
despise the children of Christ? Behold, all ye who are despisers of
the works of the Lord, for ye shall wonder and perish.
27 O then despise not, and wonder not, but hearken unto the words
of the Lord, and ask the Father in the name of Jesus for what things so ever ye
shall stand in need. Doubt not, but be believing, and begin as in
times of old, and come unto the Lord with all your heart,
and work out your own salvation with fear and trembling before him.
28 Be wise in the days of your probation; strip
yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on
your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no
temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.
29 See that ye are not baptized unworthily; see that ye
partake not of the sacrament of Christ unworthily; but see that ye do all
things in worthiness, and do it in the name of Jesus Christ, the Son of
the living God; and if ye do this, and endure to the end, ye will in nowise be
cast out.
30 Behold, I speak unto you as though I spake from the
dead; for I know that ye shall have my words.
31 Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my
father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him;
but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our
imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been.
32 And now, behold, we have written this record according to our
knowledge, in the characters which are called among us
the reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us, according
to our manner of speech.
33 And if our plates had been sufficiently large we
should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and
if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in
our record.
34 But the Lord knoweth the things which we have written, and also
that none other people knoweth our language; and because that none other people
knoweth our language, therefore he hath prepared means for the
interpretation thereof.
35 And these things are written that we may rid our garments of the
blood of our brethren, who have dwindled in unbelief.
36 And behold, these things which we
have desired concerning our brethren, yea, even their restoration to
the knowledge of Christ, are according to the prayers of all the saints who
have dwelt in the land.
37 And may the Lord Jesus Christ grant that their prayers may be
answered according to their faith; and may God the Father remember the covenant
which he hath made with the house of Israel; and may he bless them forever,
through faith on the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.
