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- ...ier at the beginning of the 19th century, Smith and his family believed in visions, dreams, and other mystical communications with God. ...in 1811, Smith's maternal grandfather, Solomon Mack, described a series of visions and voices from God that resulted in his conversion to Christianity at the22 KB (3,477 words) - 17:37, 11 May 2024
- ...contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there was no such thing as visions or revelations in these days; that all such things had ceased with the apos ...emarkable_Visions/First_Vision A Interesting Account of Several Remarkable Visions], p. 5.64 KB (9,919 words) - 18:25, 11 May 2024
- ...ven the more vivid manifestations of religious experience, such as dreams, visions and revelations, were not uncommon in Joseph's day, neither were they gener both his parents and his maternal grandfather had visions or dreams that they believed communicated messages from God.27 KB (3,938 words) - 20:07, 11 May 2024
- ...ven the more vivid manifestations of religious experience, such as dreams, visions and revelations, were not uncommon in Joseph's day, neither were they gener both his parents and his maternal grandfather had visions or dreams that they believed communicated messages from God.75 KB (11,044 words) - 20:10, 11 May 2024
- ...ed rolling on the floor, loud and extended [[glossalalia]], grimacing, and visions taken from parchments hanging in the night sky); {{Harv|Bushman|2005|pp=150 ...th a stretched out arm."); {{Harvtxt|Brodie|1971|p=146}} ("Quick-springing visions of an army of liberation marching triumphantly into the promised land betra51 KB (7,331 words) - 20:13, 11 May 2024
- Of all Smith's visions, Saints gradually came to regard his [[Joseph Smith's First Vision|First Vi ...ssionary tool for his followers only after Americans grew to regard modern visions of God as unusual.").37 KB (5,298 words) - 20:12, 11 May 2024
- ..."spiritualize the Bible, but when you read in the Bible about the dreams, visions, revelations and predictions of Ezekiel, Isaiah, Jeremiah, or any other of24 KB (4,652 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- ...ll kill more if we do not respond to the call; mortality cannot endure the visions of eternity that rests on them when they look on the Priesthood and see the16 KB (3,067 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- Many talk of their visions, revelations, and mighty works; but we have to have minds and men that thin12 KB (2,288 words) - 14:50, 13 April 2024
- You that see and understand things as they are, you who can obtain the visions of eternity, whose minds soar aloft to things beyond this vale of tears, ho45 KB (8,630 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...instructed by his Father in heaven and by the Holy Ghost, and had had the visions of his mind repeatedly opened, according to the history given by his discip44 KB (8,460 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...e for themselves. If this people called Latter-day Saints could see by the visions of the Spirit the hand dealings of the Lord as visible as some see, there w24 KB (4,674 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...e sound of their voices, even the oracles of the Almighty, before whom the visions of eternity are passing continually, and who are competent to administer un ...f heaven with them all the time; they have the power of the Spirit and the visions of the heavens with them always, and they can read men and women from head11 KB (2,123 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...me. They were not revealed to Joseph Smith for me. He had the keys to get visions and revelations, dreams and manifestations, and the Holy Ghost for the peop23 KB (4,264 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...e they could be believed by many of the Saints. His mind was opened by the visions of the Almighty, and {{page break|84|top}} the Lord taught him many things16 KB (2,991 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- ...st among them—men, women, and children, have dreams foreboding evil. The visions of their minds are troubled; they are in sorrow; they feel melancholy, and21 KB (3,990 words) - 14:51, 13 April 2024
- You may take this as some of Heber's wild visions, if you please. I have acknowledged myself as one of the people; and now I26 KB (5,013 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...rother Heber, —he is a kind of wild, kind of enthusiastic; he is full of visions and wild notions." Tell me one notion I have had that is not correct. Say y34 KB (6,804 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...ked into the Bible and into the Book of Mormon, and I have looked into the visions of eternity, and I know that I am true, and that I am of the true vine. I a ...ur minds fruitful, and fill you with revelation, with dreams, and with the visions of eternity, which is my prayer in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen.27 KB (5,337 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...your sons and your daughters shall prophecy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams; and on my servants and on my handmaid ...to come; it shall make prophets of you; your sons and daughters shall see visions; the heavens shall be opened unto you; you shall know of your origin, compr39 KB (7,123 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- They saw the things in visions that we are now doing; they sang and prophesied and rejoiced at what we hav28 KB (5,317 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- Let a man have the visions of the Almighty unfolded to his view, and see in yonder heavens the governm17 KB (3,275 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...t is built up, and to preserve the Saints from the grasp of the enemy. The visions of the class I have mentioned are nothing to me. They may exhibit their gre Some are very anxious that I should have visions. I have all that the Lord gives to me; and all that he keeps back he may; f15 KB (2,874 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...ham Young]]]; and be favored with the same blessing. That he might receive visions; the ministration of angels, and hear their voice; and even come into the p2 KB (343 words) - 15:20, 13 April 2024
- ...and falls like the mighty image that the Babylonish monarch beheld in the visions of the night. ...man that is chosen of God, and armed with the power of revelation and the visions of heaven, is the man to lead the Latter-day Saints. No less will satisfy t25 KB (4,635 words) - 14:52, 13 April 2024
- ...he Spirit of the Most High God resting upon us and round about us, and the visions and glories of the future that we are destined to enjoy are open to our min ...grieved, and it wanders from us, and we are left to grope in the dark; the visions of eternity are shut out from our minds, and we see through another medium25 KB (4,718 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- Then shall we who have thus been blessed with the visions of eternity—with light and intelligence,—we who are filled with the Spi11 KB (2,082 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...pour out his blessings upon our heads, to enlighten our minds and give us visions and revelation, so that we cannot be led astray. I know this from the testi16 KB (3,256 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...ts of God, before they shall see your faces. And you will receive heavenly visions to comfort you, and dreams to give you knowledge of the things of God, if y10 KB (1,906 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...to read and think, until I knew and fully understood it for myself, by the visions of the Holy Spirit. At first it actually came in contact with my own feelin21 KB (3,859 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...with manna from heaven, and be clothed in robes of righteousness; may the visions and revelations of the eternal worlds be open before them continually; and ...tition, and ignorance that reign in their souls. Give unto them dreams and visions and revelations by thy Spirit, that they may see their degraded condition,27 KB (4,934 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...vest of the world must be gathered; for you recollect, among the wonderful visions John saw on the Isle of Patmos, he says—"And I looked, and behold a white28 KB (5,439 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...e Jacob conversed with God, heard his voice, and saw him; and in all those visions and glorious manifestations made to him, we find no reproof for polygamy. C51 KB (9,551 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...e angel was with Columbus, and gave him deep impressions, by dreams and by visions, respecting this New World. Trammelled by poverty and by an unpopular cause14 KB (2,434 words) - 14:53, 13 April 2024
- ...red you to speak in new tongues, to prophesy, to interpret tongues, to see visions, and have dreams to edify and comfort you. It was with you when you went ou20 KB (3,897 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...tors and inspired men in it—with prophets and prophetesses, with dreams, visions, and revelations? So did the ancient Israelites in America do the same thin ...aptized for the remission of sins, and filled with the Holy Ghost, and the visions of the future were opened to them, and the spirit of prophecy rested upon t59 KB (10,547 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...Spirit of the Lord, and the Holy Ghost to be with you, and have dreams and visions, and gold and silver, and herds and flocks, wives and children, and every o10 KB (2,042 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...t. God designed him to rule, and indicated the same by singular dreams and visions to the lad. This excited the jealousy of his brethren, and they began to pe19 KB (3,497 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...e received the Holy Spirit of promise, the Holy Ghost,—who have received visions—who have been endowed with faith and with the knowledge of God—who have ...u obtain eternal riches, and the true and living faith within you, and the visions of your mind are opened to understand and see things as they are, you will29 KB (5,478 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...was once delivered to the Saints, and which inspired them with dreams and visions, tongues and the interpretation thereof. Pray, tell me who is capable of in16 KB (3,183 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...through Joseph, Smith—that was revealed to him from heaven by angels and visions. We have the Gospel and the keys of the holy Priesthood.12 KB (2,373 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...ept among them contained the fulness of the Gospel and many prophecies and visions that were great and precious. He saw that a remnant of the nation should dw50 KB (9,344 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...on my enemies? Every time I think of it, and when my mind is opened by the visions of the Lord to see the weeping, the wailing, and distress of the nations, t18 KB (3,281 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...he voice of God or received any communication or revelation from him. Then visions ceased, angels no longer appeared, miracles were done away, and every offic ...o him, though he may profess to be inspired, and to have received heavenly visions, and to have seen God, and talked with him face to face, as Moses, Abraham,61 KB (10,991 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...istory of it. I was acquainted with him during many years. He had heavenly visions; angels administered to him. The vision of his mind was opened to see and u25 KB (4,778 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...as they go along in the faithful performance of their daily duties. If the visions of our minds had been opened twelve years ago to see the Saints as they are21 KB (4,026 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...is understanding of the ways and duties of life. His mind will expand, the visions of heaven will be opened to him, and truth pertaining to all subjects of ar20 KB (3,713 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...ginning to the end. And so scrutinizing, penetrating, and expanded are his visions and knowledge, that not even a hair of our head can fall to the ground unno33 KB (6,050 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...individuals who may have come up to their privileges, who may have had the visions of eternity opened to them, and may have conversed with angels, and receive ...estness and diligence and faith, been able to obtain those revelations and visions that belong to the High Priesthood and to the Apostleship, that I might kno18 KB (3,308 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...built up in intelligence and in light by the administration of angels—by visions of the Spirit of the living God, teaching them, guiding them, and instructi36 KB (6,667 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- Thus Moses led the people out from the bondage of Egypt: by visions, by revelations, by the voice of God, by the manifestation of the power of ...d upon them and said—"Receive ye the Holy Ghost." And they began to have visions and revelations, and the power of God was made manifest on them. Paul, in w37 KB (7,012 words) - 14:54, 13 April 2024
- ...nd acts from the intelligence of the spirit God has placed within him, the visions of eternity are opened to him; heaven and eternity are before him.17 KB (3,268 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...hey, but they understand not. You who are spiritually-minded, who have the visions of your minds opened—have studied yourselves, your organizations, the pow15 KB (2,852 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...Lord talked about the time when Jesus would come to reign upon the earth. Visions, dreams, and revelations{{page break|99|top}} are multiplied upon this subj20 KB (3,760 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...ands upon him and blessed him, and told him that he should have dreams and visions, and power with God to know what to do, if he lived his religion; but if he8 KB (1,531 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...and glory that will far transcend all their expectations, imaginations, or visions in their most excited moments, whether in their falling-down power, jumping12 KB (2,268 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...en in the Church twenty, twenty-five, or thirty years prepared to have the visions of eternity opened to them? No. To hear the voice of the angel Gabriel? No.14 KB (2,731 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...r own them, nor bestow the Holy Spirit upon them, and they will never have visions of eternity . opened to them, unless they acknowledge that Joseph Smith is23 KB (4,391 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...ents our seeing objects at great distances, would be no obstruction to our visions. Then we should behold that God is here, that our Father dwells here. We ar15 KB (2,938 words) - 14:55, 13 April 2024
- ...sensibilities we now possess, brightened and increased in intensity by the visions and power of the spirit-world, to an extent of which you now have no idea.12 KB (2,275 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...ord chose Joseph Smith, called upon him at fourteen years of age, gave him visions, and led him along, guided and directed him in his obscurity until he broug29 KB (5,724 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...r gods, become subject to other spirits, from which he receives dreams and visions that lead him on to destruction.7 KB (1,219 words) - 14:56, 13 April 2024
- ...is not like man's; the Lord shows things to come, perhaps in dreams or by visions of the night, and we should learn what is mingled and connected in his desi13 KB (2,604 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...We live far short of the blessings the Lord has in store for us. When the visions of our minds are opened, we can then more fully realize this truth. And aga18 KB (3,343 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- I have had visions and revelations instructing me how to organize this people so that they can16 KB (2,999 words) - 14:57, 13 April 2024
- ...his work upon the earth, that he has spoken from the heavens, and that the visions of the Almighty have been opened to our view; the light of ages is being re5 KB (977 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...er? "It will cause your old men to dream dreams, and your young men to see visions, and your servants and handmaids shall prophecy; it will bring things past36 KB (6,661 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...knowledge of God, in the spirit of revelation, in the gift of prophecy, in visions or in dreams, unless they cleave unto God with full purpose of heart, but b30 KB (5,704 words) - 14:33, 13 April 2024
- ...ed a certain individual with the manifestations of his will in dreams, and visions of the day, perhaps, also, of the night, and that individual was Joseph of14 KB (2,580 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...s or electric light be turned on, and that it be allowed to shine upon the visions of their dull understandings; it may help them some. But it is evident that35 KB (6,519 words) - 14:48, 13 April 2024
- ...speak of a time "when time shall be no more." And the Apostle John in his visions, while banished to the Isle of Patmos, heard the angel say, "time shall be22 KB (4,083 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...e cannot be a teacher unto others. And even then, although he may have had visions, although he may have seen the Lord and had the glories of heaven opened un36 KB (6,840 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...if we would listen to its teachings, it would come to us in many ways, in visions, in dreams and manifestations of the power of God. We could have the minist33 KB (6,256 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...revelations, their predictions, their doctrines, their manifestations and visions, and their history, the same as the Bible is the record and history of the29 KB (5,471 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...came together—those that feared God and worked righteousness—they had visions and revelations and prophesied of events that should transpire. There were ...it did in former days, the light and intelligence of God. It opens up the visions of eternity; it places us in communication with the Lord. It prepares us fo43 KB (8,135 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...s, you say you have had the visitation of angels, you say you had heavenly visions, you say the Holy Ghost has been poured out upon you, but I have never rece ...he Lord will reveal himself, as he did to his servant Moses, by angels, by visions, by revelation from the heavens, and will give unto him commandments, and m36 KB (6,709 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...nd the Son. We may have the ministration of angels; we may be wrapt in the visions of heaven—these things as testimonies are very good, but when you receive26 KB (4,939 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...visit us by his angels—visit us by heavenly communications—visit us by visions —visit us more fully by the spirit of revelation that the words of Isaiah33 KB (6,186 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams; your young men shall see visions; and upon the servants and the handmaids in those days will I pour out my s50 KB (9,549 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
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- ...doors, and I know it by the revelations of Jesus Christ; I know it by the visions of heaven: I know it by the administrations of angels, and I know it by the21 KB (4,081 words) - 14:45, 13 April 2024
- ...shall prophecy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pou32 KB (6,204 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...filled with greatness, and surrounded by majesty, glory and power, and the visions of eternity seem to be at your command, for you have unfolded them to me. W42 KB (7,896 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...to face with the powers of darkness by spiritual manifestations, and open visions, as well as with men in the flesh, stirred up by the same spirit of the adv Others had visions. Lyman Wight bore testimony that he saw the face of the Savior.38 KB (7,005 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ed a certain individual with the manifestations of his will in dreams, and visions of the day, perhaps, also, of the night, and that individual was Joseph of15 KB (2,852 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ut by that very means. So our brethren, instead of owning the truth of our visions, acted towards us as the brethren of Joseph did towards him. They would not10 KB (1,955 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ..., they would have been slain; nothing but the power of God saved them. The visions of their minds were opened, that they saw many of the devils that sought th24 KB (4,558 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...ple in the days of old, and how He spoke to them, and gave them dreams and visions and wonderful manifestations, and what a delightful thing it was for them t29 KB (5,632 words) - 14:34, 13 April 2024
- ...in the experience of others, as I am with my own, except by faith and the visions of the Spirit.49 KB (9,502 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ere men who knew how to approach God, and that when they did they obtained visions, revelations and the ministering of angels, and could look through the dark ...d the power of God, with the revelations of God beaming upon them, and the visions of eternity open to their minds. This is the kind of religion I believe in;22 KB (4,200 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...of the deaf unstopped, or the tongue of the dumb unloosed, or by dreams or visions, as a general thing, requires a continuation of these manifestations from t ...rm the small things of the gospel; but they were constantly reaching after visions and dreams, and extraordinary manifestations of the power of God; and, in n33 KB (6,064 words) - 14:35, 13 April 2024
- ...ed and sanctified to become the bride, the Lamb's wife. I suppose that the visions of the Lord and the revelation of His Spirit given to His faithful people i22 KB (4,131 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...; that there is no more new revelation, no more prophecy, no more inspired visions, no more administrations of angels as in days of old, no more voice of God18 KB (3,383 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...page break|318|top}}phecy; we saw that none of them had revelation, or the visions of heaven opened to their minds; and we also saw the doctrines they taught25 KB (4,624 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...ght away from every object that surrounded him, and he was filled with the visions of the Almighty, and he saw, in the midst of this glorious pillar of fire, ...no doubt, something like we read of Daniel, who, after being wrapt in the visions of the Almighty, was sick for three days; it did not effect [affect] Mr. Sm36 KB (6,606 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...to converse with God, and that angels conversed with them; that others had visions and could read the purposes of God as they were unfolded before them. But c ...l flesh, and your old men shall dream dreams, and your young men shall see visions, and upon my servants and handmaidens I will pour out my spirit and they sh27 KB (5,004 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024
- ...e communications are to be expected from Heaven. The ancients saw heavenly visions and personages; they heard the voice of the Lord; they were inspired by the ...ecy, and with the gift of tongues, and in process of time with the gift of visions, and had power to heal the sick and cast out devils in the name of Jesus Ch44 KB (8,110 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- These visions continued from time to time, and in 1830 he published to the world the tran ...ary to enable them to proceed to California to realize, if possible, their visions of gold. While the Latter-day Saints were pursuing this course, they too we34 KB (6,021 words) - 14:36, 13 April 2024
- ...that comes from our Creator, day by day, and night by night, in dreams and visions of the mind. "I see it, I know it," said he. I recollect him telling some o30 KB (5,696 words) - 14:37, 13 April 2024