Joseph teaches that, when the angels come to gather their children and work for the dead has been completed, "the Son of Man will descend" from Heaven and "the Ancient of Days will sit."

Date
Jun 26, 1839 - Aug 4, 1839
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Joseph Smith, Jr.
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Direct
Reference

Discourse, between circa 26 June and circa 4 August 1839–A, as Reported by William Clayton, 16-18, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed December 16, 2022

Scribe/Publisher
William Clayton
People
Joseph Smith, Jr.
Audience
Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Transcription

They prophesied of a day when this glory would be revealed. Paul spoke of the dispensation of the fulness of times when God would gather together all things in one &c. Those men to whom these keys have been given will have to be there (I. E. when Adam shall again assemble his children of the priesthood and Christ be in their midst the ancient of days come &c &c. J. T.) and they without us could not be made perfect. These men are in heaven but their children are on earth, their bowels yearn over us. God sends down men for this reason Matt. 13— 41 and the Son of man shall send forth his Angels &c. All these authorative characters will come down and join hand in hand in bringing about this work. The Kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed; the mustard seed is small but brings forth a large tree. The fowls are the Angels, the Book of Mormon perhaps. Thus Angels come down combined together to gather their children and gather them. We cannot be made perfect without them nor they without us; when these are done, the Son of man will descend, the Ancient of Days sit. We may come to an innumerable company of angels, have communion with and receive The horn made war with the Saints, overcame them &c, until the Ancient of Days come and judgment was given to the Saints of the Most High from the Ancient of Days; the time came that the Saints possessed the kingdom. It not only makes us ministers here but in eternity. Salvation cannot come without revelation; it is in vain for any one to minister without it. No man is a minister of Jesus <​Christ without being a prophet. No man​> can be the minister of Jesus Christ <​except he has kept every​> except he has the testimony of Jesus, and this is the spirit of prophecy. Whenever salvation has been administered it has been by testimony.

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