Hearken, O ye people, and open your hearts and give ear from afar; and listen, you that call yourselves the ^apeople of the Lord, and hear the word of the Lord and his will concerning you.

 2 Yea, verily, I say, hear the word of him whose anger is ^akindled against the wicked and ^brebellious;

 3 Who willeth to take even them whom he will ^atake, and ^bpreserveth in life them whom he will preserve;

 4 Who buildeth up at his own will and ^apleasure; and destroyeth when he pleases, and is able to ^bcast the soul down to hell.

 5 Behold, I, the Lord, utter my voice, and it shall be ^aobeyed.

 6 Wherefore, verily I say, let the wicked take heed, and let the ^arebellious ^bfear and tremble; and let the unbelieving hold their lips, for the ^cday of wrath shall come upon them as a ^dwhirlwind, and all flesh shall ^eknow that I am God.

 7 And he that seeketh ^asigns shall see ^bsigns, but not unto salvation.

 8 Verily, I say unto you, there are those among you who seek signs, and there have been such even from the beginning;

 9 But, behold, faith cometh not by signs, but ^asigns follow those that believe.

 10 Yea, ^asigns come by ^bfaith, not by the will of men, nor as they please, but by the will of God.

 11 Yea, signs come by faith, unto mighty works, for without ^afaith no man pleaseth God; and with whom God is ^bangry he is not well pleased; wherefore, unto such he showeth no signs, only in ^cwrath unto their ^dcondemnation.

 12 Wherefore, I, the Lord, am not pleased with those among you who have sought after signs and wonders for faith, and not for the good of men unto my glory.

 13 Nevertheless, I give commandments, and many have turned away from my commandments and have ^anot kept them.

 14 There were among you ^aadulterers and adulteresses; some of whom have turned away from you, and others remain with you that hereafter shall be revealed.

 15 Let such beware and repent speedily, lest judgment shall come upon them as a ^asnare, and their ^bfolly shall be made manifest, and their works shall follow them in the eyes of the people.

 16 And verily I say unto you, as I have said before, he that ^alooketh on a woman to ^blust after her, or if any shall commit ^cadultery in their hearts, they shall not have the ^dSpirit, but shall deny the faith and shall fear.

 17 Wherefore, I, the Lord, have said that the ^afearful, and the ^bunbelieving, and all ^cliars, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie, and the ^dwhoremonger, and the ^esorcerer, shall have their part in that ^flake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the ^gsecond death.

 18 Verily I say, that they shall not have part in the ^afirst resurrection.

 19 And now behold, I, the Lord, say unto you that ye are not ^ajustified, because these things are among you.

 20 Nevertheless, he that ^aendureth in faith and doeth my ^bwill, the same shall overcome, and shall receive an ^cinheritance upon the earth when the day of transfiguration shall come;

 21 When the ^aearth shall be ^btransfigured, even according to the pattern which was shown unto mine apostles upon the ^cmount; of which account the fulness ye have not yet received.

 22 And now, verily I say unto you, that as I said that I would make known my will unto you, behold I will make it known unto you, ^anot by the way of commandment, for there are many who observe not to keep my commandments.

 23 But unto him that keepeth my commandments I will give the ^amysteries of my kingdom, and the same shall be in him a well of living ^bwater, ^cspringing up unto everlasting life.

 24 And now, behold, this is the will of the Lord your God concerning his saints, that they should ^aassemble themselves together unto the land of Zion, not in haste, lest there should be confusion, which bringeth pestilence.

 25 Behold, the land of ^aZion—I, the Lord, hold it in mine own hands;

 26 Nevertheless, I, the Lord, render unto ^aCaesar the things which are Caesar's.

 27 Wherefore, I the Lord will that you should ^apurchase the lands, that you may have advantage of the world, that you may have claim on the world, that they may not be ^bstirred up unto anger.

 28 For ^aSatan ^bputteth it into their hearts to anger against you, and to the shedding of blood.

 29 Wherefore, the land of Zion shall not be obtained but by ^apurchase or by blood, otherwise there is none inheritance for you.

 30 And if by purchase, behold you are blessed;

 31 And if by ^ablood, as you are forbidden to shed blood, lo, your enemies are upon you, and ye shall be scourged from city to city, and from synagogue to synagogue, and but ^bfew shall stand to receive an inheritance.

 32 I, the Lord, am ^aangry with the ^bwicked; I am holding my ^cSpirit from the inhabitants of the earth.

 33 I have sworn in my wrath, and ^adecreed wars upon the face of the earth, and the wicked shall ^bslay the wicked, and fear shall come upon every man;

 34 And the ^asaints also shall ^bhardly ^cescape; nevertheless, I, the Lord, am with them, and will ^dcome down in heaven from the presence of my Father and ^econsume the wicked with unquenchable fire.

 35 And behold, this is not yet, but ^aby and by.

 36 Wherefore, seeing that I, the Lord, have decreed all these things upon the face of the earth, I will that my saints should be assembled upon the land of Zion;

 37 ^aAnd that every man should take ^brighteousness in his hands and ^cfaithfulness upon his loins, and lift a warning ^dvoice unto the inhabitants of the earth; and declare both by word and by flight that ^edesolation shall come upon the wicked.

 38 Wherefore, let my disciples in Kirtland arrange their temporal concerns, who dwell upon this farm.

 39 Let my servant Titus Billings, who has the care thereof, dispose of the land, that he may be prepared in the coming spring to take his journey up unto the land of Zion, with those that dwell upon the face thereof, excepting those whom I shall reserve unto myself, that shall ^anot go until I shall command them.