"'Surely the Lord God will do nothing but he revealeth thehis secret unto his servants the prophets.' Aaccording to the testimony of the scriptures in all ages of the world, whenever God was about to bring a judgment upon the world or accomplish any great work, the first thing he did was to raise up a Prophet, and reveal unto him histhe secretts, and send him to warn the people so that they may be left without excuse.

Though the secrets which God is revealing through his servant the Prophet in these last days may be unpopular, and unbelieved in by the world, yet their unbelief will not make the truth of God of none effect any more than it did in the days of Lot and Noah, or at the fall of Jerusalem.

At the same time the standard should be lifted up, that the honest in heart, the meek of the earth among the gentiles should seek unto it; and that Zion should be redeemed, and be built up a Holy City, that the glory and power of God should rest upon her, and be seen upon her; that the watchman upon Mount Ephraim might cry, "arise ye and let us go up unto the Zion, the City of the Lord our God"; that the gentiles might come to her light, and kings to the brightness of her rising; that the saints of God may have a place to flee to and stand in holy places while judgment works in the earth; that when the sword of God that is bathed in heaven falls upon Idumea or the world—when the Lord pleads with all flesh by sword and by fire, and the slain of the Lord are many—the saints may escape these calamities by fleeing to the places of refuge like Lot and Noah.