LDS Priesthood Unveiled Appendix 1Joseph has a message for the LDS/Mormon people who believe they are being led
by the priesthood of God. This comes straight from his own mouth, now as a resurrected
man, consistent with the same words he wrote twice: once as Mormon, when he was
abridging the words of Alma from the records contained upon the large plates of Nephi,
and later as the chosen true messenger, Joseph Smith, Jr. :
And now my beloved brethren, I say unto you, can you withstand these
words (referring to what is given above as the words of Moroni) which were
written to you by my own hand; can you lay aside these things, and trample the
Holy One under your feet; can ye continue to be puffed up in the pride of your
hearts; and will you still persist in the wearing of costly apparel and setting your
hearts upon the vain things of the world, upon your riches?
Will you persist in supposing that you are better one than another; will
you persist in the persecution of your brethren, who humble themselves and do
walk after the holy order of God, who have been taken out of your church,
having been sanctified by the Holy Spirit, and who bring forth works which are
meet for repentance?
Will you persist in turning your backs upon the poor, and the needy, and
in withholding your substance from them while your priesthood leaders deceive
you with temples and ordinances that you do not understand?
And finally, all you that will persist in your wickedness, I say unto you
that these are they who shall be hewn down and cast into the fire except they
speedily repent.
And now I say unto all of you who are desirous to follow the voice of the
good shepherd, come out from among the wicked, and become separate from the
polluted church that continues to use my name in vain, and touch not their
unclean things; and behold, their names shall be blotted out of the book of Life,
that the names of the wicked shall not be numbered among the names of the
righteous, that the word of God may be fulfilled, which says: The names of the
wicked shall not be mingled with the names of my people;
For the names of the righteous shall be written in the book of life, and
unto them shall the Lord grant an inheritance at his right hand. And now, my
brethren, what have you to say against this? I say unto you, if you speak against
it, it matters not, for the word of God must be fulfilled.
For what shepherd is there among you having many sheep doth not
watch over them, that the wolves enter not and devour his flock? And behold, if
a wolf enter his flock doth he not drive him out? Yea, and at the last, if he can,
he will destroy him.
And now I say unto you that the good shepherd doth call after you; and if
you will hearken unto his voice he will bring you into his fold, and you are his
sheep; and he commands you that you suffer no ravenous wolf to enter among
you, that ye may not be destroyed. Yet your priesthood leaders are the wolves
which you have allowed among you. Suffer them no more!
Behold, our Christ groans within himself, even as I groan, because of the
wickedness of the people of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and
their priesthood leaders.^221