{"collection":"mor","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc76.htm","path":"mor/dc/dc76.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/mor/dc/dc76.htm","text":"Back to Sacred Texts\nBack to Mormonism\nBack to Index\nPrevious\nNext\nA vision given to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, Hiram, Ohio, February 16, 1832. History of the Church 1:245-52.\n\u00a0 1 Hear, O ye heavens, and give ear, O earth, and rejoice ye inhabitants thereof, for the Lord is God, and beside him there is no Savior.\n\u00a0 2 Great is his wisdom, marvelous are his ways, and the extent of his doings none can find out.\n\u00a0 3 His purposes fail not, neither are there any who can stay his hand.\n\u00a0 4 From eternity to eternity he is the same, and his years never fail.\n\u00a0 5 For thus saith the LordI, the Lord, am merciful and gracious unto those who fear me, and delight to honor those who serve me in righteousness and in truth unto the end.\n\u00a0 6 Great shall be their reward and eternal shall be their glory.\n\u00a0 7 And to them will I reveal all mysteries, yea, all the hidden mysteries of my kingdom from days of old, and for ages to come, will I make known unto them the good pleasure of my will concerning all things pertaining to my kingdom.\n\u00a0 8 Yea, even the wonders of eternity shall they know, and things to come will I show them, even the things of many generations.\n\u00a0 9 And their wisdom shall be great, and their understanding reach to heaven; and before them the wisdom of the wise shall perish, and the understanding of the prudent shall come to naught.\n\u00a0 10 For by my Spirit will I enlighten them, and by my power will I make known unto them the secrets of my willyea, even those things which eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor yet entered into the heart of man.\n\u00a0 11 We, Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon, being in the Spirit on the sixteenth day of February, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two\n\u00a0 12 By the power of the Spirit our eyes were opened and our understandings were enlightened, so as to see and understand the things of God\n\u00a0 13 Even those things which were from the beginning before the world was, which were ordained of the Father, through his Only Begotten Son, who was in the bosom of the Father, even from the beginning;\n\u00a0 14 Of whom we bear record; and the record which we bear is the fulness of the gospel of Jesus Christ, who is the Son, whom we saw and with whom we conversed in the heavenly vision.\n\u00a0 15 For while we were doing the work of translation, which the Lord had appointed unto us, we came to the twenty-ninth verse of the fifth chapter of John, which was given unto us as follows\n\u00a0 16 Speaking of the resurrection of the dead, concerning those who shall hear the voice of the Son of Man:\n\u00a0 17 And shall come forth; they who have done good in the resurrection of the just; and they who have done evil, in the resurrection of the unjust.\n\u00a0 18 Now this caused us to marvel, for it was given unto us of the Spirit.\n\u00a0 19 And while we meditated upon these things, the Lord touched the eyes of our understandings and they were opened, and the glory of the Lord shone round about.\n\u00a0 20 And we beheld the glory of the Son, on the right hand of the Father, and received of his fulness;\n\u00a0 21 And saw the holy angels, and them who are sanctified before his throne, worshiping God, and the Lamb, who worship him forever and ever.\n\u00a0 22 And now, after the many testimonies which have been given of him, this is the testimony, last of all, which we give of him: That he lives!\n\u00a0 23 For we saw him, even on the right hand of God; and we heard the voice bearing record that he is the Only Begotten of the Father\n\u00a0 24 That by him, and through him, and of him, the worlds are and were created, and the inhabitants thereof are begotten sons and daughters unto God.\n\u00a0 25 And this we saw also, and bear record, that an angel of God who was in authority in the presence of God, who rebelled against the Only Begotten Son whom the Father loved and who was in the bosom of the Father, was thrust down from the presence of God and the Son,\n\u00a0 26 And was called Perdition, for the heavens wept over himhe was Lucifer, a son of the morning.\n\u00a0 27 And we beheld, and lo, he is fallen! is fallen, even a son of the morning!\n\u00a0 28 And while we were yet in the Spirit, the Lord commanded us that we should write the vision; for we beheld Satan, that old serpent, even the devil, who rebelled against God, and sought to take the kingdom of our God and his Christ\n\u00a0 29 Wherefore, he maketh war with the saints of God, and encompasseth them round about.\n\u00a0 30 And we saw a vision of the sufferings of those with whom he made war and overcame, for thus came the voice of the Lord unto us:\n\u00a0 31 Thus saith the Lord concerning all those who know my power, and have been made partakers thereof, and suffered themselves through the power of the devil to be overcome, and to deny the truth and defy my power\n\u00a0 32 They are they who are the sons of perdition, of whom I say that it had been better for them never to have been born;\n\u00a0 33 For they are vessels of wrath, doomed to suffer the wrath of God, with the devil and his angels in eternity;\n\u00a0 34 Concerning whom I have said there is no forgiveness in this world nor in the world to come\n\u00a0 35 Having denied the Holy Spirit after having received it, and having denied the Only Begotten Son of the Father, having crucified him unto themselves and put him to an open shame.\n\u00a0 36 These are they who shall go away into the lake of fire and brimstone, with the devil and his angels\n\u00a0 37 And the only ones on whom the second death shall have any power;\n\u00a0 38 Yea, verily, the only ones who shall not be redeemed in the due time of the Lord, after the sufferings of his wrath.\n\u00a0 39 For all the rest shall be brought forth by the resurrection of the dead, through the triumph and the glory of the Lamb, who was slain, who was in the bosom of the Father before the worlds were made.\n\u00a0 40 And this is the gospel, the glad tidings, which the voice out of the heavens bore record unto us\n\u00a0 41 That he came into the world, even Jesus, to be crucified for the world, and to bear the sins of the world, and to sanctify the world, and to cleanse it from all unrighteousness;\n\u00a0 42 That through him all might be saved whom the Father had put into his power and made by him;\n\u00a0 43 Who glorifies the Father, and saves all the works of his hands, except those sons of perdition who deny the Son after the Father has revealed him.\n\u00a0 44 Wherefore, he saves all except themthey shall go away into everlasting punishment, which is endless punishment, which is eternal punishment, to reign with the devil and his angels in eternity, where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched, which is their torment\n\u00a0 45 And the end thereof, neither the place thereof, nor their torment, no man knows;\n\u00a0 46 Neither was it revealed, neither is, neither will be revealed unto man, except to them who are made partakers thereof;\n\u00a0 47 Nevertheless, I, the Lord, show it by vision unto many, but straightway shut it up again;\n\u00a0 48 Wherefore, the end, the width, the height, the depth, and the misery thereof, they understand not, neither any man except those who are ordained unto this condemnation.\n\u00a0 49 And we heard the voice, saying: Write the vision, for lo, this is the end of the vision of the sufferings of the ungodly.\n\u00a0 50 And again we bear recordfor we saw and heard, and this is the testimony of the gospel of Christ concerning them who shall come forth in the resurrection of the just\n\u00a0 51 They are they who received the testimony of Jesus, and believed on his name and were baptized after the manner of his burial, being buried in the water in his name, and this according to the commandment which he has given\n\u00a0 52 That by keeping the commandments they might be washed and cleansed from all their sins, and receive the Holy Spirit by the laying on of the hands of him who is ordained and sealed unto this power;\n\u00a0 53 And who overcome by faith, and are sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise, which the Father sheds forth upon all those who are just and true.\n\u00a0 54 They are they who are the church of the Firstborn.\n\u00a0 55 They are they into whose hands the Father has given all things\n\u00a0 56 They are they who are priests and kings, who have received of his fulness, and of his glory;\n\u00a0 57 And are priests of the Most High, after the order of Melchizedek, which was after the order of Enoch, which was after the order of the Only Begotten Son.\n\u00a0 58 Wherefore, as it is written, they are gods, even the sons of God\n\u00a0 59 Wherefore, all things are theirs, whether life or death, or things present, or things to come, all are theirs and they are Christ's, and Christ is God's.\n\u00a0 60 And they shall overcome all things.\n\u00a0 61 Wherefore, let no man glory in man, but rather let him glory in God, who shall subdue all enemies under his feet.\n\u00a0 62 These shall dwell in the presence of God and his Christ forever and ever.\n\u00a0 63 These are they whom he shall bring with him, when he shall come in the clouds of heaven to reign on the earth over his people.\n\u00a0 64 These are they who shall have part in the first resurrection.\n\u00a0 65 These are they who shall come forth in the resurrection of the just.\n\u00a0 66 These are they who are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly place, the holiest of all.\n\u00a0 67 These are they who have come to an innumerable company of angels, to the general assembly and church of Enoch, and of the Firstborn.\n\u00a0 68 These are they whose names are written in heaven, where God and Christ are the judge of all.\n\u00a0 69 These are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect atonement through the shedding of his own blood.\n\u00a0 70 These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the sun of the firmament is written of as being typical.\n\u00a0 71 And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and lo, these are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that of the church of the Firstborn who have received the fulness of the Father, even as that of the moon differs from the sun in the firmament.\n\u00a0 72 Behold, these are they who died without law;\n\u00a0 73 And also they who are the spirits of men kept in prison, whom the Son visited, and preached the gospel unto them, that they might be judged according to men in the flesh;\n\u00a0 74 Who received not the testimony of Jesus in the flesh, but afterwards received it.\n\u00a0 75 These are they who are honorable men of the earth, who were blinded by the craftiness of men.\n\u00a0 76 These are they who receive of his glory, but not of his fulness.\n\u00a0 77 These are they who receive of the presence of the Son, but not of the fulness of the Father.\n\u00a0 78 Wherefore, they are bodies terrestrial, and not bodies celestial, and differ in glory as the moon differs from the sun.\n\u00a0 79 These are they who are not valiant in the testimony of Jesus; wherefore, they obtain not the crown over the kingdom of our God.\n\u00a0 80 And now this is the end of the vision which we saw of the terrestrial, that the Lord commanded us to write while we were yet in the Spirit.\n\u00a0 81 And again, we saw the glory of the telestial, which glory is that of the lesser, even as the glory of the stars differs from that of the glory of the moon in the firmament.\n\u00a0 82 These are they who received not the gospel of Christ, neither the testimony of Jesus.\n\u00a0 83 These are they who deny not the Holy Spirit.\n\u00a0 84 These are they who are thrust down to hell.\n\u00a0 85 These are they who shall not be redeemed from the devil until the last resurrection, until the Lord, even Christ the Lamb, shall have finished his work.\n\u00a0 86 These are they who receive not of his fulness in the eternal world, but of the Holy Spirit through the ministration of the terrestrial;\n\u00a0 87 And the terrestrial through the ministration of the celestial.\n\u00a0 88 And also the telestial receive it of the administering of angels who are appointed to minister for them, or who are appointed to be ministering spirits for them; for they shall be heirs of salvation.\n\u00a0 89 And thus we saw, in the heavenly vision, the glory of the telestial, which surpasses all understanding;\n\u00a0 90 And no man knows it except him to whom God has revealed it.\n\u00a0 91 And thus we saw the glory of the terrestrial which excels in all things the glory of the telestial, even in glory, and in power, and in might, and in dominion.\n\u00a0 92 And thus we saw the glory of the celestial, which excels in all thingswhere God, even the Father, reigns upon his throne forever and ever;\n\u00a0 93 Before whose throne all things bow in humble reverence, and give him glory forever and ever.\n\u00a0 94 They who dwell in his presence are the church of the Firstborn; and they see as they are seen, and know as they are known, having received of his fulness and of his grace;\n\u00a0 95 And he makes them equal in power, and in might, and in dominion.\n\u00a0 96 And the glory of the celestial is one, even as the glory of the sun is one.\n\u00a0 97 And the glory of the terrestrial is one, even as the glory of the moon is one.\n\u00a0 98 And the glory of the telestial is one, even as the glory of the stars is one; for as one star differs from another star in glory, even so differs one from another in glory in the telestial world;\n\u00a0 99 For these are they who are of Paul, and of Apollos, and of Cephas.\n\u00a0 100 These are they who say they are some of one and some of anothersome of Christ and some of John, and some of Moses, and some of Elias, and some of Esaias, and some of Isaiah, and some of Enoch;\n\u00a0 101 But received not the gospel, neither the testimony of Jesus, neither the prophets, neither the everlasting covenant.\n\u00a0 102 Last of all, these all are they who will not be gathered with the saints, to be caught up unto the church of the Firstborn, and received into the cloud.\n\u00a0 103 These are they who are liars, and sorcerers, and adulterers, and whoremongers, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.\n\u00a0 104 These are they who suffer the wrath of God on earth.\n\u00a0 105 These are they who suffer the vengeance of eternal fire.\n\u00a0 106 These are they who are cast down to hell and suffer the wrath of Almighty God, until the fulness of times, when Christ shall have subdued all enemies under his feet, and shall have perfected his work;\n\u00a0 107 When he shall deliver up the kingdom, and present it unto the Father, spotless, saying: I have overcome and have trodden the wine-press alone, even the wine-press of the fierceness of the wrath of Almighty God.\n\u00a0 108 Then shall he be crowned with the crown of his glory, to sit on the throne of his power to reign forever and ever.\n\u00a0 109 But behold, and lo, we saw the glory and the inhabitants of the telestial world, that they were as innumerable as the stars in the firmament of heaven, or as the sand upon the seashore;\n\u00a0 110 And heard the voice of the Lord saying: These all shall bow the knee, and every tongue shall confess to him who sits upon the throne forever and ever;\n\u00a0 111 For they shall be judged according to their works, and every man shall receive according to his own works, his own dominion, in the mansions which are prepared;\n\u00a0 112 And they shall be servants of the Most High; but where God and Christ dwell they cannot come, worlds without end.\n\u00a0 113 This is the end of the vision which we saw, which we were commanded to write while we were yet in the Spirit.\n\u00a0 114 But great and marvelous are the works of the Lord, and the mysteries of his kingdom which he showed unto us, which surpass all understanding in glory, and in might, and in dominion;\n\u00a0 115 Which he commanded us we should not write while we were yet in the Spirit, and are not lawful for man to utter;\n\u00a0 116 Neither is man capable to make them known, for they are only to be seen and understood by the power of the Holy Spirit, which God bestows on those who love him, and purify themselves before him;\n\u00a0 117 To whom he grants this privilege of seeing and knowing for themselves;\n\u00a0 118 That through the power and manifestation of the Spirit, while in the flesh, they may be able to bear his presence in the world of glory.\n\u00a0 119 And to God and the Lamb be glory, and honor, and dominion forever and ever. Amen.","title":"Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 76. A vision given to Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon, Hiram, Ohio, February 16, 1832.","type":"page"}