Oliver H. Olney describes the "Ancient of Days" as a quorum of twelve.

Date
2019
Type
Personal Journal / Diary
Source
Oliver H. Olney
Excommunicated
Critic
Hearsay
Direct
Reprint
Reference

Oliver H. Olney, Journal, October 13, 1842, in The Writings of Oliver H. Olney: April 1842 to February 1843—Nauvoo, Illinois, ed. Robert G. Moore (Salt Lake City: Greg Kofford Books, 2019), 179-80

Scribe/Publisher
Greg Kofford Books, Oliver H. Olney
People
Oliver H. Olney
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N/A
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As the Antient of have assembled all as one They form a Corum of twelve Their decision is past That because of bad works they have changed their former place of sitting The sitting in futer will be with thee as thy Labours shall be needed in different parts Let thy mind be centerd to go and to come As directed By the A- of Days as they have at this time have assembled to regulate and put in order all things agreeable to the order of God A destiny is decided on the L.D. Saints that they have no power to extricate themselves. It shall not be known as God will take the offender from the Eavil to come That is caled by Revelation his will to perform As much is adoing and a ben don that takes the attention of the people of the Land but the time has come for a change to be The wisdom of man is bafled because of a curse that on them rests It formily has rested On degraded minds that have sit in heathenish darkness for any ages past and gone But the time has ariven that the curse is now removed and the Natives set at liberty as has hitherto ben recorded Yet the curse is the same as it has bearly changed homes that it now rests on the Jentile race that as a people they have long bosted of their worth But now are fallen no more to arise except by becoming the Covenant people of God But as God to man is a looking to help them on their way they have nothing to fear but to be up and adoing in accordance with the Law of God It has often ben written and as often abused By unwise teachers that run before they was sent to speak of the Law of God to man It is to deal honourably with his Neigbor and well pay his debts Because of bad doing Their wrights are gone that they have no Claim on the Kingdom of the Leaders of the Ch of L D Saints Altho many is a looking for that which is good yet the veil is drawn between them between them And the Son of God Their destiny is seald that they stand on the ground as they did before they was born so all those that have not well don their work must remember the penalty of the Law of God But because of their doings in days past and gone they now are permited to take another round that they may yet enter in to the presence of the Farther and Son that they may yet have a chance a work for to gain a Celestiall rest a rest of which the Prophets spoke if they it understood Is a rest of worth alth many of the L. D. Saints because of unwise doings have not it merited by their works as they on Earth took a stand and covenanted to do the will of God but God by them has ben much disgraced by their bad works Both Early and late they in his name have said to do untill he by them will no more disgrased Their daily moves does them forbid to be caled after the name of the Lord But because of bad works they in a mass will fall some to shame and Contempt others will be boyed up in the presance of the Father and Son as a work of importance is on the wing to extricate the Spirits in prison that long since have Died As the time has ariven for them to come forth valient labourers will be caled to go forward and do this work It is a work of importance to be managed by the Son of God as he is now a moveing on his way to put all things in order Both in Heaven and Earth

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