To Bro. Eli Curtis
Topsham,
April 21, 1847
To Bro. Eli Curtis, New York City.
Dear Bro,
In the Day-Dawn, Vol. 1, Nos. 10 and 11, you kindly invite me to
address you a communication.
The only apology I have to offer for not writing before is, I have
not had a clear duty to write till now. You will, I doubt not, excuse
me for addressing you so publicly, at this time. I have been much
interested in your writings in the Dawn, and extra; and fully agree with
you on some points, but on others we widely differ.
Your Extra is now on the stand before me; and I beg leave to state
to you, and the scattered flock of God, what I have seen in vision
relative to these things on which you have written. I fully agree with
you, that there will be two literal resurrections, 1000 years apart.
I also agree with you, that the new heavens, and the new earth,
(
Revelation 21:1
.
Isaiah 65:17
.
2 Peter 3:13
.) will not appear, till after
the wicked dead are raised, and destroyed, at the end of the 1000 years.
I saw that Satan was “loosed out of his prison,” at the end of the 1000
years, just at the time the wicked dead were raised; and that Satan
deceived them by making them believe that they could take the holy
city from the saints. The wicked all marched up around the “camp
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of the saints,” with Satan at their head; and when they were ready to
make an effort to take the city, the Almighty breathed from his high
throne, on the city, a breath of devouring fire, which came down on
them, and burnt them up, “root and branch.”
And I saw, that as Christ is the vine, and his children the branches:
so Satan is the “root”, and his children are the “branches;” and at the
final destruction of “Gog and Magog,” the whole wicked host will be
burnt up, “root and branch,” and cease to exist. Then will appear the
new heaven and the new earth. Then will the saints “build houses,”
and “plant vineyards.” I saw, that all the righteous dead were raised by
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