Sign #38 - There Will Be Many False Churches in the Latter Days

The Prophet Joseph Smith talked about this.  The Prophet had this happen to him in 1843.  A man that worldly people looked to had said that the end of the world would be coming that year.  So some of the people in the church asked the prophet if it was true.  He said NO.

The prophet said, it is not.  For one thing, Amos has said:

AMOS 3: 7

7 Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.

The prophet put as a footnote that we change the BUT to UNTIL and the line is much more clear.

No one knows the Day or the Hour, but he gives us the SIGNS OF THE TIMES so we will know the APPROXIMATE TIME OF HIS COMING, by the signs. 

IF the Lord would tell anyone about a Warning, it would be His Prophet.  I am not saying the DAY or the HOUR, because it will be a SURPRISE to all.  That is why He says to ALWAYS BE READY and WATCH. 

He will NOT tell a minister, pastor, or a bishop.  Look in the scriptures and you will find he talks to HIS PROPHETS.  He does not change the name to something else - PROPHETS.

JOSEPH SMITH-MATTHEW 1: 22

22 For in those days there shall also arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenant.

The Elect, according to the Covenant, which are the Members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

REVELATION 13: 13-14

13 And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

 

14 And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.

Now, in the Stick of Joseph or Ephraim known as the Book of Mormon, The Prophet Moroni, son of the Prophet Mormon, who gave him the plates to finish making the Record, he said much concerning the Last Days.

MORMON 8: 22-41

22 For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on, until all his promises shall be fulfilled.

 

23 Search the prophecies of Isaiah. Behold, I cannot write them. Yea, behold I say unto you, that those saints who have gone before me, who have possessed this land, shall cry, yea, even from the dust will they cry unto the Lord; and as the Lord liveth he will remember the covenant which he hath made with them.

 

24 And he knoweth their prayers, that they were in behalf of their brethren. And he knoweth their faith, for in his name could they remove mountains; and in his name could they cause the earth to shake; and by the power of his word did they cause prisons to tumble to the earth; yea, even the fiery furnace could not harm them, neither wild beasts nor poisonous serpents, because of the power of his word.

 

25 And behold, their prayers were also in behalf of him that the Lord should suffer to bring these things forth.

(These THINGS meaning the Record you are reading RIGHT NOW.  And the Prayers of the Ancient prophets like Isaiah and Daniel were for he who would do it - Namely the Prophet Joseph Smith)

26 And no one need say they shall not come, for they surely shall, for the Lord hath spoken it; for out of the earth shall they come, (by Moroni Himself) by the hand of the Lord, and none can stay it; and it shall come in a day when it shall be said that miracles are done away; and it shall come even as if one should speak from the dead. 

(The people and prophets that speak in the Book of Mormon are DEAD, so it is like they are Speaking From The Dust).

 

27 And it shall come in a day when the blood of saints shall cry unto the Lord, because of secret combinations and the works of darkness.

 

28 Yea, it shall come in a day when the power of God shall be denied, and churches become defiled and be lifted up in the pride of their hearts; yea, even in a day when leaders of churches and teachers shall rise in the pride of their hearts, even to the envying of them who belong to their churches.

 

29 Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be heard of fires, and tempests, and vapors of smoke in foreign lands;

(Sound familiar)

 

30 And there shall also be heard of wars, rumors of wars, and earthquakes in divers places.

 

31 Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be great pollutions upon the face of the earth; there shall be murders, and robbing, and lying, and deceivings, and whoredoms, and all manner of abominations; when there shall be many who will say, Do this, or do that, and it mattereth not, for the Lord will uphold such at the last day. But wo unto such, for they are in the gall of bitterness and in the bonds of iniquity.

 

32 Yea, it shall come in a day when there shall be churches built up that shall say: Come unto me, and for your money you shall be forgiven of your sins.

 

33 O ye wicked and perverse and stiffnecked people, why have ye built up churches unto yourselves to get gain? Why have ye transfigured the holy word of God, that ye might bring damnation upon your souls? Behold, look ye unto the revelations of God; for behold, the time cometh at that day when all these things must be fulfilled.

 

34 Behold, the Lord hath shown unto me (Moroni) great and marvelous things concerning that which must shortly come, at that day when these things shall come forth among you.  

(Talking about the record - The Book of Mormon)

 

35 Behold, I speak unto you as if ye were present, and yet ye are not. But behold, Jesus Christ hath shown you unto me, and I know your doing.

 

36 And I know that ye do walk in the pride of your hearts; and there are none save a few only who do not lift themselves up in the pride of their hearts, unto the wearing of very fine apparel, unto envying, and strifes, and malice, and persecutions, and all manner of iniquities; and your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts.

 

37 For behold, ye do love money, and your substance, and your fine apparel, and the adorning of your churches, more than ye love the poor and the needy, the sick and the afflicted.

 

38 O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers, who sell yourselves for that which will canker, why have ye polluted the holy church of God? Why are ye ashamed to take upon you the name of Christ? Why do ye not think that greater is the value of an endless happiness than that misery which never dies—because of the praise of the world?

 

39 Why do ye adorn yourselves with that which hath no life, and yet suffer the hungry, and the needy, and the naked, and the sick and the afflicted to pass by you, and notice them not?

 

40 Yea, why do ye build up your secret abominations to get gain, and cause that widows should mourn before the Lord, and also orphans to mourn before the Lord, and also the blood of their fathers and their husbands to cry unto the Lord from the ground, for vengeance upon your heads?

 

41 Behold, the sword of vengeance hangeth over you; and the time soon cometh that he avengeth the blood of the saints upon you, for he will not suffer their cries any longer.

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