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Testimonies to Ministers and Gospel Workers
by the precept of men: therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a
marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work and
a wonder: for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the
understanding of their prudent men shall be hid. Woe unto them that
seek deep to hide their counsel from the Lord, and their works are
in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?”
The Lord has shown us His way; shall we walk in it? or shall we,
finite and erring as we are, walk in our own counsel, and practice
the principles which He has warned us against?
The Present Warning
“Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book,
that it may be for the time to come forever and ever: that this is a
rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law
of the Lord: which say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets,
Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things,
prophesy deceits: get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path,
cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us. Wherefore
thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and
trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: therefore this
iniquity shall be to you as a breach ready to fall, swelling out in a
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high wall, whose breaking cometh suddenly at an instant.”
“Whom shall He teach knowledge? and whom shall He make
to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and
drawn from the breasts. For precept must be upon precept, precept
upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a
little: for with stammering lips and another tongue will He speak to
this people. To whom He said, This is the rest wherewith ye may
cause the weary to rest; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not
hear. But the word of the Lord was unto them precept upon precept,
precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little and
there a little; that they might go; and fall backward, and be broken,
and snared, and taken. Wherefore hear the word of the Lord, ye
scornful men that rule this people which is in Jerusalem. Because ye
have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are
we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through,
it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and