{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc133_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc133_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc133_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc133.htm","summary":"This is Section 133 of the Doctrine and Covenants, a canonized scripture of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints presented as direct revelation from God, placing it within the tradition of 19th-century American restorationist prophecy. The text is an eschatological proclamation commanding the faithful to \"flee Babylon\" \u2014 both literal and spiritual wickedness \u2014 and gather to Zion (identified with America) and Jerusalem in preparation for the imminent Second Coming of Christ. It describes the physical transformations that will accompany Christ's return in vivid apocalyptic terms: oceans driven back, continents reunited to their pre-divided state, mountains leveled, and the resurrection of saints from Adam through the apostles. Distinctively, the revelation integrates LDS-specific theology into biblical apocalyptic imagery, including the gathering of the tribe of Ephraim as a privileged remnant, the role of LDS elders as the missionaries carrying the \"everlasting gospel\" to all nations, and Christ appearing simultaneously on the Mount of Olives and on an American Mount Zion. The closing verses shift to a warning tone, pronouncing judgment on those who rejected the Lord's servants \u2014 an implicit defense of the LDS prophetic mission \u2014 with the condemned facing \"outer darkness.\" Readers of biblical apocalyptic literature (Isaiah, Revelation, Malachi) will find the imagery familiar, but the text repurposes it to authorize a specific 19th-century American religious movement as the vehicle of God's final covenant.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Doctrine and Convenants: 133. Revelation through Joseph Smith, Hiram, Ohio, November 3, 1831.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":2098}