5  They encourage themselves in an evil matter: they commune of laying snares privily; they say, Who shall ^bsee them?

  25  I will ^abring forth out of darkness unto light all their secret works and their abominations; and except they repent I will destroy them from off the face of the earth; and I will bring to light all their secrets and abominations, unto every nation that shall hereafter possess the land.

  3  And the rebellious shall be pierced with much sorrow; for their iniquities shall be ^dspoken upon the housetops, and their secret acts shall be revealed.

  6  Q. What are we to understand by the book which John saw, which was sealed on the back with seven seals?

A. We are to understand that it contains the revealed will, mysteries, and the works of God; the hidden things of his economy concerning this earth during the seven thousand years of its continuance, or its temporal existence.

  8  And now behold, I, Mormon, do not desire to harrow up the souls of men in casting before them such an awful scene of blood and carnage as was laid before mine eyes; but I, knowing that these things must surely be made known, and that all things which are hid must be ^arevealed upon the house-tops—

  7  Q. What are we to understand by the seven seals with which it was sealed?

A. We are to understand that the first seal contains the things of the ^bfirst thousand years, and the second also of the second thousand years, and so on until the seventh.