"And unto thee, thou greatly favored, unto thee, I the Lord, at this time, have a word of warning and a word of sharp rebuke. The ear of the Almighty hath heard your slandering, and your back-biting, and your lying; and they are of that blackness which cometh from the depths of hell; yea, they are of the spirit of that Wicked One, who maketh war upon me; and who hath gendered strife, and bitterness, and hatred, in the hearts of my people from the first; for which cause, Zion was lost unto them. Take heed, therefore, for I will rebuke my people suddenly with the shaft of death. I will make bare mine arm in the midst of them, and they shall know that I am God." "And now, even now, will I make them to understand, that of old it was truly said, a prophet is not without honor save in his own country, and in his own city, and with his own people.

True prophets teach that the gospel is not a work of confusion but clearly understood, and that men only remain in confusion when they willingly choose to reject truth. True prophets will teach that you must follow the whisperings of the Holy spirit and reject the false teachings of men that have no foundation in sound logic. True prophets teach that there are no great mysteries for those that sincerely seek for wisdom and truth, and that clarity of thought unencumbered by false teachings of men is necessary in understanding the works of the Lord, and that the words of God are simple and can be understood by all.

True prophets bear a strong message of sharp rebuke to spur all people to repent and seek to find the Savior through prayer, and do not seek to turn the hearts of men to follow weak mortal religious leaders as a step to take before following God. True prophets do not ask people to accept on blind faith the precepts based on the faulty reasoning of men. True prophets declare the word of God ,and have faith that those who earnestly and sincerely seek the word of God will have it confirmed in them by the Holy Spirit. True prophets teach that men must think for themselves and be independent of blindly following religious leaders to gain their own testimony.

True prophets have never been concerned to seek after popularity of the world, nor perform works designed to make them popular among men, for they seek to follow the will of God only. True prophets would never use resources gathered from their people to build up expensive buildings for the frivolous use of men, when the resources could be better spent to help the poor. A true prophet would never seek to prevent others from obtaining the word or words of the Lord, nor would he allow himself to be set up in eminence above righteous people seeking to work out their personal salvation with their one true Savior, Jesus Christ. True prophets do not boast of their own works, nor do they find the time to flatter the people in the face of the great evil that has always threatened to completely overtake mankind. True prophets have always exercised most of their energies and strength to warn people of the overwhelming power of evil that has taken hold in the hearts of men throughout history, and do not flatter the people that they have achieved righteous conditions when it is clear they have not. True prophets have recognized the tremendous powers and threats of evil that continually threaten to overpower and destroy those that are righteous as well as their works.

At no point is it ever taught in the scriptures that heavenly power automatically comes with authority of office in the church. At no point according to the Word of the Lord in the scriptures are Latter-day Saints ever assured they will have a prophet in authority to lead them in righteousness. It is the individual duty of every man to gain a testimony of the true gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ for himself, not to gain his own testimony through the weak testimonies and teachings of others. True prophets have always taught that it takes more than following a weak arm of flesh, but instead warn of the tremendous evil and to preach repentance and turn the people’s hearts back to God. The Lord has designated realms of authority; for example, a man might receive revelation for his family, or the leaders of the LDS Church may be directed how to run the individual church in which they hold leadership positions, but no man has ever been appointed exclusive authority to receive revelation for all of the lands and peoples of the world in general.

Mormons believe the Lord established His word and Church among the Jews while He lived with a mortal body on earth during the times of the New Testament. Mormons believe that upon the Savior’s resurrection, he visited lands and other people not known to the Biblical Jews, including America, and personally administered to them and again established His Church. Whenever the Lord has established His Church, he has commanded that it be established in His Name, although the term "Latter-day Saints" is added today to distinguish the church established for this day, from those other times when the Lord has established His Church elsewhere on the planet. When the Lord establishes His Church among a people, it includes the establishing of church offices of leadership; for example, even though many of the original twelve apostles still lived and carried on their works among the Jews and Gentiles on another part of the planet, twelve new apostles were called to serve in America. Mormons believe that while many of the apostles passed on or were put to death, there were those who asked the Lord to allow them to continue their works on His behalf, and therefore were given the power to live without tasting death: "And they all spake, save it were three, saying: We desire that after we have lived unto the age of man, that our ministry, wherein thou hast called us, may have an end, that we may speedily come unto thee in thy kingdom. And he said unto them: Blessed are ye because ye desired this thing of me; therefore, after that ye are seventy and two years old ye shall come unto me in my kingdom; and with me ye shall find rest. And when he had spoken unto them, he turned himself unto the three, and said unto them: What will ye that I should do unto you, when I am gone unto the Father? And they sorrowed in their hearts, for they durst not speak unto him the thing which they desired. And he said unto them: Behold, I know your thoughts, and ye have desired the thing which John, my beloved, who was with me in my ministry, before that I was lifted up by the Jews, desired of me. Therefore, more blessed are ye, for ye shall never taste of death; but ye shall live to behold all the doings of the Father unto the children of men, even until all things shall be fulfilled according to the will of the Father, when I shall come in my glory with the powers of heaven. And ye shall never endure the pains of death; but when I shall come in my glory ye shall be changed in the twinkling of an eye from mortality to immortality; and then shall ye be blessed in the kingdom of my Father." (2 Nephi 28: 2-8)

The main purpose of any prophet of the Lord has always been to preach repentance and try to turn the hearts of the children of men to follow their Savior and Lord, not himself, and to show people the way to draw near the Lord by teaching them to follow His word and His teachings only. No true prophet has ever allowed himself to be appointed in the eyes of the people to be employed as "keeper of the gate" to salvation, for this is in direct contradiction to the Lord’s teachings that only the Lord Himself can be the final judge.

Those who would preach such a principle of there only being one prophet or set of prophets to follow are preaching a blasphemous doctrine that is not and never has been of God, for it would mean other prophets walking the earth such as John the Revelator and the three Book of Mormon apostles (whose works are not connected to the works of current LDS Church leaders) would have to submit to the authority of leaders of the LDS Church instead of God Himself. Those teaching that the people should only follow the teachings of the prophets appointed and endorsed by men to church offices have not left any room to receive instruction from true prophets. In fact, the teachings in scriptures like the Doctrine and Covenants teaches that to reject a Lord’s Servant such as John the Revelator is a grievous sin as in Section 121 of the Doctrine and Covenants:

"Cursed are all those that shall lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord.."(Doctrine and Covenants, 121:16)

The Lord has provided many examples of sharp rebuke for those who have sought to change or alter the meaning of his scriptures. Many changes in LDS scripture have been subtle; in some cases rewritten modern current LDS interpretations of scripture are now being circulated where Book of Mormon scriptures have been condensed and simplified, to guide naive church members to understand only the false interpretations of the teachers they will to follow. In the Doctrine and Covenants, Section 10, it states that it is only evil men who seek to alter the scriptures::

Based on the premise that authority to receive revelation is currently limited to leaders of the LDS Church, those prophets currently walking the earth such as John the Revelator and others such as the three Book of Mormon Apostles would be shut off from receiving revelations and to prophecy and impart the words communicated to them from the Lord without weakly submitting themselves to the whims of the LDS Church leaders instead of the Lord Himself. This teaching would force those who have encountered John the Revelator to reject him, and cause all who hear of his works to reject him as well, for the Mormon religion clearly teaches there are other prophets walking the earth outside of church leadership, and church leaders present no evidence of acknowledging or cooperating with these great servants of the Lord in building the gospel.

Historical precedents have been recorded that when the Lord’s Church was established, it did not preclude the power of Satan to enter among the people to cause widespread apostasy; in fact, there are numerous scriptural prophecies and revelations predicting the current state of apostasy in the LDS Church among members and leaders:

"O how foolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how quick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their hearts upon the vain things of the world! Yea, how quick to be lifted up in pride; yea, how quick to boast, and do all manner of that which is iniquity; and how slow are they to remember the Lord their God, and to give ear unto his counsels, yea, how slow to walk in wisdom's paths! Behold, they do not desire that the Lord their God, who hath created them, should rule and reign over them; notwithstanding his great goodness and his mercy towards them, they do set at naught his counsels, and they will not that he should be their guide.

"O how great is the nothingness of the children of men; yea, even they are less than the dust of the earth." Helaman 12:1-7

It is the design of Satan to bind and subdue the powers of the priesthood through servitude of the priesthood bearers. "For the bed is shorter than a man can stretch himself on it and the covering narrower than he can wrap himself in it." Satan has always sought to infiltrate those people that are righteous and cunningly plant the seeds of wickedness among them: ‘For the doings of the church in these last of the latter days must not be looked at too closely, and those who are ordained to be guardians and watchmen on the towers of the church must be put to sleep. For those ordained to the priesthood must not have time and energy to awake, they must be in servitude to their professions and the sweet teachings of subservience to their children. For all must be lulled to believe they need not worry, and all are deemed worthy that seek not to question, so that there is a spiritual bondage to obtain the word of God.’

Recent LDS versions of Church history are rife with revised and altered facets of much of early church history. The deceptions construct an entirely different picture of Mormon history, one that denigrates the religion but which allows current church members to feel content in the perceptions that the church has improved rather than digressed, by replacing old religion with new. There is currently an all out assault on authentic church history now being conducted by historians in the LDS Church with tacit approval of church leaders, who offer silence while official church history is changed and printed falsely. With the completion of the vile revisions of history, Mormons will then be able to claim they are loyal to the principles taught by early church leaders. This cunning work of deception continues in earnest, as Mormon historians race to re-interpret events and teachings of the early church in order to reconcile modern discrepencies and cover up the truth. Much of official church history has been altered since notorious criminal Mark Hofmann influenced church officials and leaders to lead the church astray by following after and investing in his works of forgery.

In this modern day of intellectual slumber, it is the specific works of the righteous that those serving evil seek to destroy; for in their sophistication they have come to realize that the works of Satan are best accomplished through works of stealth and cunning to influence organizations from within, not always through recognizably violent means. Although attacks on the Mormon religion continue to intensify, it is interesting that there is little of intelligent merit offered as a better alternative by those in and out of the church that seek to disprove or taint the Book of Mormon, and those who should be defending the Mormon religion are for the most part silent. The attitude of apathy and indifference seems close to becoming an epidemic in the LDS Church, especially among the young people, who are basically more honest in their feelings than the older members are. As the leadership in the LDS Church continues to stray further away from the principles that Joseph Smith taught, one can expect God to withdraw ever further from the Church as well.

"I am grateful that we have our free agency which to me is an eternal blessing, an eternal principle. I recognize that today Satan, the adversary, is still alert. He is not using the means of persecution towards this people which he once used, but he is still the enemy of truth, and he is using other methods today. He is probably using the method of encouraging complacency. He is probably making an effort to lull us away into a false security because things seem well in Zion. One of the Book of Mormon prophets said this would be the case in the last days. You remember Nephi's prediction when he said:

‘For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good. And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion, yea, Zion prospereth, all is well__and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell. Therefore, wo be unto him that is at ease in Zion! Wo be unto him that crieth: All is well!’ (Ibid., 28:20_21,24_25.)

"Now, of course, the Church itself is God's great instrument to build and to save and to exalt men everywhere, through the application of the simple principles of the gospel. It is a way of life that will make men happy, and "men are, that they might have joy." This great instrument must withstand opposition and complacency."

".....Don't worry," says the devil "the Lord will protect you, and besides the world is so corrupt and heading toward destruction at such a pace that you can't stop it, so why try." Well to begin with, the Lord will not protect us unless we do our part. This devilish tactic of persuading people not to get concerned because the Lord will protect them no matter what they do is exposed by the Book of Mormon. Referring to the devil, it says, "And others will he pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, and they will say: All is well in Zion, yea, Zion prospereth, all is well__and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell." (2 Nephi 28:21.)

"I like that word "carefully." In other words, don't shake them, you might awake them. But the Book of Mormon warns us that when we should see these murderous conspiracies in our midst that we should awake to our awful situation. Now why should we awake if the Lord is going to take care of us anyway? Now let us suppose that it is too late to save freedom. It is still accounted unto us for righteousness' sake to stand up and fight. Some Book of Mormon prophets knew of the final desolate end of their nations, but... they still fought on, and they saved some souls including their own by so doing. For, after all, the purpose of life is to prove ourselves, and the final victory will be for freedom.

"But many of the prophecies referring to America's preservation are conditional. That is, if we do our duty we can be preserved, and if not then we shall be destroyed. This means that a good deal of the responsibility lies with the priesthood of this Church as to what happens to America and as to how much tragedy can be avoided if we do act now.

"And now as to the last neutralizer that the devil uses most effectively__it is simply this: "Don't do anything in the fight for freedom until the Church sets up its own specific program to save the Constitution." This brings us right back to the scripture I opened with today__to those slothful servants who will not do anything until they are "compelled in all things." Maybe the Lord will never set up a specific church program for the purpose of saving the Constitution. Perhaps if he set one up at this time it might split the Church asunder, and perhaps he does not want that to happen yet for not all the wheat and tares are fully ripe.

And so we await that day when no more will the priesthood be in bondage and church teachings in the media no longer craftily but subtly sow the seeds of dissension among families. Satan desires that the priesthood must remain dormant, so men must serve their professions and become indemnified to their little children, for they must be taught their time and efforts as fathers to their families are never enough. And the poor man is trodden under foot, for he cannot meet the demands placed upon him for exhausting demands to earn a living while serving his children. And the women are taught in subtle and crafty ways that their husbands are not worthy of their companionship, for most will fail in the demands of lifestyle placed upon them from the church. "As for my people, children are their oppressors and women rule over them." (Isaiah 3:12) Therefore, the fruits of the church are often divorce and broken families and bitterness, for it is the understanding that the fathers that are not affluent are not worthy. And those men who achieve levels of affluence through cheating the poor are given free rein to exercise what is believed to be their priesthood powers to oppress the downtrodden.

And so we look for the day when no more will the pretended superiority of church standing and priesthood office be used to sanctimoniously judge and condemn those who dare to question. We await a glorious and wondrous day, when the Spirit if God returns to the Lord’s Holy Church and the chains of bondage no longer engulf the minds and lives of the Latter Day Saints. A day when the poor rejoice and their efforts are no longer trampled, and evil men do not seek to cheat them of the fruits of their labors, when the hearts of the saints will once again be turned to their Lord Jesus Christ, instead of men in church offices who lead the people astray. A day when The Church leaders are no longer led astray by criminal minds and hideously evil men in their ranks.

A day when the followers of Satan can no longer infiltrate God’s Holy Church and set themselves up in positions of eminence, to denigrate and revise that which is truth, leading to the confusion which lays the snares, causing Latter-day Saints to choose the pathway of apostasy. We await that day when the toils of the labors of the Saints no longer are squandered on the works of extravagance, and church no longer finances worldly buildings adorned according to the edification of the rich, and the Lord himself is welcomed back into the church so that he may dwell with His people. A day when the afflictions and ailments of the sick and the poor will be healed, and men will dwell in righteousness with the Lord. A day when the spirit of God sweeps through the Saints and those who are not apostles are put out publicly (Ezra 2:62), and those that cause the church to lead the people to follow forgers and stories of mobocrats have their doings and works exposed, and all people will become aware of what they have allowed to transpire in their midst, and none will be without excuse. A day after one mighty servant of the Lord will have performed his work and the masses no longer revile against that which is truth and their hope for salvation. And with a return to Christ, the overwhelming joy of the Lord’s sheep will cause the angels to sing and the saints will once again speak the true name of their Lord and Savior.