In the
third month,
[Footnote from NLT: Hebrew says “In the third month after the Israelites left
Egypt, on the very day” (i.e., two lunar months to the day after leaving
Egypt). Compare Num 33:3.]
when
the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt,
the
same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai. 19:2
For
they were departed from Rephidim,
and
were come to the desert of Sinai,
and
had pitched in the wilderness;
and
there Israel camped before the mount. 19:3
And
Moses went up unto God,
and
the LORD called unto him out of the mountain,
saying,
Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the
children of Israel; 19:4
Ye have seen what I did unto the Egyptians, and how I
bare you on eagles’ wings, and brought you unto myself. 19:5
Now therefore, if ye will
obey my voice indeed,
[ABO: Shema: “”]
and keep my covenant,
then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all
people:
for all the earth is mine: 19:6
And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and an holy nation.
These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the
children of Israel. 19:7
And
Moses came and called for the elders of the people,
and
laid before their faces all these words which the LORD commanded him. 19:8
And
all the people answered together, and said,
All that the LORD hath
spoken we will do.
And
Moses returned the words of the people unto the LORD. 19:9
And
the LORD said unto Moses,
Lo, I come unto thee in a
thick cloud, that the people
may hear when I
speak with thee,
and believe thee for ever.
And
Moses told the words of the people unto the LORD. 19:10
And
the LORD said unto Moses,
Go unto the people,
and sanctify them to day and to morrow,
and let them wash their clothes, 19:11
And be ready against the third day:
for the third day the LORD will come down in the sight
of all the people upon mount Sinai. 19:12
And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about,
saying,
Take heed to yourselves,
that ye go not up into the mount,
or touch the border of it:
whosoever toucheth the mount
shall be surely put to death: 19:13
There shall not an hand touch
it,
but he shall surely be stoned,
or shot through;
whether it be beast or man,
it shall not live:
when the trumpet soundeth long,
they shall come up to the mount. 19:14
And
Moses went down from the mount unto the people,
and
sanctified the people;
and
they washed their clothes. 19:15
And he
said unto the people,
Be ready against the third
day: come not at your wives. 19:16
[People
of Israel Experience God’s Power]
And it
came to pass on the third day in the morning,
that
there were thunders
and lightnings,
and a thick
cloud upon the mount,
and
the voice of the trumpet exceeding loud;
so
that all the people that was in the camp trembled. 19:17
[ABO: Echoes of the
destruction before Jesus revealed himself to the Nephites]
And
Moses brought forth the people out of the camp to meet with God;
and
they stood at the nether part of the mount. 19:18
And
mount Sinai was altogether on a smoke, because the LORD descended upon it in
fire:
and
the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace,
and
the whole mount quaked greatly. 19:19
And
when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses
spake, and God answered him by a voice. 19:20
And
the LORD came down upon mount Sinai, on the top of the mount:
and
the LORD called Moses up to the top of the mount;
and
Moses went up. 19:21
And
the LORD said unto Moses,
Go down,
charge the people,
lest they break through unto the LORD to gaze,
and many of them perish. 19:22
And let the priests also, which come near to the LORD,
sanctify themselves,
lest the LORD break forth upon them. 19:23
And
Moses said unto the LORD,
The people cannot come up
to mount Sinai:
for thou chargedst us, saying,
Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it. 19:24
And
the LORD said unto him,
Away,
get thee down,
and thou shalt come up, thou, and Aaron with thee:
but let not the priests and the people break through to
come up unto the LORD,
lest he break forth upon them. 19:25
So
Moses went down unto the people,
and
spake unto them. 20:1
And
God spake all these words, saying, 20:2
[Ten
Commandments (“The Decalogue”)]
I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the
land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 20:3
Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 20:4
Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or
any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or
that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth. 20:5 Thou shalt not
bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am
a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the
third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 20:6 And shewing mercy
unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 20:7
Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in
vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in
vain. 20:8
Remember the sabbath day, to keep it
holy. 20:9 Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 20:10 But the seventh
day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou,
nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy
cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 20:11 For in six days
the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested
the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 20:12
Honour thy father and
thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD
thy God giveth thee. 20:13
Thou shalt not kill. 20:14
Thou shalt not commit adultery. 20:15
Thou shalt not steal. 20:16
Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 20:17
Thou shalt not covet [ABO: Heb:
Literally, “Thou shalt not desire”] thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant,
nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.
20:18
And all
the people saw
the thunderings,
and
the lightnings,
and
the noise of the trumpet,
and
the mountain smoking:
[ABO: Again, echoes of the destruction before Jesus revealed
himself to the Nephites]
and
when the people saw it,
they removed,
and stood afar off. 20:19
[ABO: Compare to Lehi’s descendants who gathered close to the
temple]
And
they said unto Moses,
Speak thou with us, and we
will hear:
but let not God speak with
us, lest we die. 20:20
And
Moses said unto the people,
Fear not: [ABO: A
phrase typically spoken by angels bearing good news]
for God is come to prove
you,
and that his fear may be
before your faces,
that ye sin not. 20:21
And the people stood afar off,
and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.
And
the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound. 8:7
[ABO: D&C77:
“Q. What are we to
understand by the sounding of the trumpets, mentioned in the 8th chapter of
Revelation?
A. We are to understand
that as God made the world in six days, and on the seventh day he finished his
work, and sanctified it, and also formed man out of the dust of the earth, {ABO ie - the beginning of His work}
even so, in the beginning
of the seventh thousand years will the Lord God
sanctify the earth,
and complete the
salvation of man,
and judge all
things,
and shall redeem all
things, except that which he hath not put into his power,
when he shall have sealed
all things, unto the end of all things;
and the sounding of the
trumpets of the seven angels are the preparing and finishing of his work, {ABO ie - the ending of His work}
in the beginning of the
seventh thousand years—
the preparing of the way
before the time of his coming.”]
[Angel sounding 1] The first angel sounded,
and
there followed hail and fire mingled with blood,
and
they were cast upon the earth:
。and the third part of trees was burnt up,
and all green grass was burnt up. 8:8
[Angel sounding 2] And the
second angel sounded,
and as it were a great mountain burning with
fire was cast into the sea:
。and the third part of the sea became blood; 8:9
。And the third part of the creatures which were
in the sea, and had life, died;
。and the third part of the ships were destroyed. 8:10
[Angel sounding 3] And the
third angel sounded,
and there fell a great star from heaven,
burning as it were a lamp,
。and it fell upon the third part of the rivers,
and upon the fountains of waters; 8:11
And the name of the star is called Wormwood:
。and the third part of the waters became wormwood;
and many men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter. 8:12
[ABO: Toxic water reminds me of the blood red
water of the Nile]
[Angel sounding 4] And the
fourth angel sounded,
。and the third part of the sun was smitten,
。and the third part of the moon,
。and the third part of the stars;
so as the third part of them was darkened,
。and the day
shone not for a third part of it,
。and the night
likewise. 8:13
And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through
the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice,
Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by
reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to
sound! 9:1
[Angel sounding 5]
And the fifth angel sounded,
and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the
earth:
and to him was given the key of
the bottomless pit. 9:2
[ABO: D&C 77 v 13:
“Q. When are the things to be accomplished, which are written in the
9th chapter of Revelation?
A. They are to be accomplished after the opening of the seventh seal,
before the coming of Christ.”]
And he opened the bottomless pit;
and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the
smoke of a great furnace;
and the sun and the air were darkened by reason
of the smoke of the pit. 9:3
And there came out of the smoke locusts upon the
earth:
and unto them was given power, as the scorpions
[referenced earlier] of the earth have power. 9:4
And it was commanded
them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing,
neither any tree;
but only those men which have not the seal of
God in their foreheads. 9:5
And to them it was given that they should not
kill them, [ABO: Job]
but that they should be tormented five months:
and their torment was as the torment of a
scorpion, when he striketh a man. 9:6
And in those days shall men seek death, and
shall not find it; [ABO: Job]
and shall desire to die,
and death shall flee from them. 9:7
And the shapes of the locusts were like unto
horses prepared unto battle;
and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold,
and their faces were as the faces of men. 9:8
And they had hair as the hair of women,
and their teeth were as the teeth of lions. 9:9
And they had breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron;
and the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses
running to battle. 9:10
And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their
tails:
and their power was to hurt men five months. 9:11
And they had a king over them,
which is the angel of the bottomless pit,
whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon,
but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon. 9:12
One woe is past; and,
behold, there come two woes more hereafter. 9:13
[Angel sounding 6] And the
sixth angel sounded,
and I heard a voice from the four horns of the
golden altar which is before God, 9:14
Saying to the sixth angel which had the trumpet,
Loose the four angels which are bound in the great river Euphrates. 9:15
And the four angels were loosed,
which were prepared
for an hour,
and a day,
and a month,
and a year,
[ABO: Why like this? Maybe to indicate the multiple ways in which it can
be fulfilled.]
。for to slay the third part of men. 9:16
And the number of the army of the horsemen were
two hundred thousand thousand:
and I heard the number of them. 9:17
And thus I saw the horses in the vision,
and them that sat on them,
having breastplates of fire,
and of jacinth,
and brimstone:
and the heads of the horses were as the heads of
lions;
and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke
and brimstone. 9:18
By these three was the third part of men killed,
by the fire,
and by the smoke,
and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths. 9:19
For their power is in their mouth, and in their
tails:
for their tails were like unto serpents,
and had heads, and with them they do hurt. 9:20
And the rest of the men which were not killed by
these plagues
yet repented not of the works of their hands,
that they should not worship devils,
and idols of gold, and silver, and brass, and stone, and of wood: which
neither can see, nor hear, nor walk: 9:21
Neither repented they of their murders,
nor of their sorceries,
nor of their fornication,
nor of their thefts. 10:1
[Another Angel Sounding ?
(Maybe not 7, which follows in 11 v15)]
And I saw another mighty angel come down from
heaven,
clothed with a cloud:
and a rainbow was upon his head,
and his face was as it were the sun,
and his feet as pillars of fire: 10:2
And he had in his hand a little book open:
and he set his right foot upon the sea,
and his left foot on the earth, 10:3
And cried with a loud voice, as when a lion roareth:
and when he had cried,
seven thunders uttered their voices. 10:4
[ABO: Like Jericho]
And when the seven thunders had uttered their voices,
I was about to write:
and I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me,
Seal up those things which the seven thunders uttered,
and write them not. 10:5
[ABO: Cannot be written]
And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and
upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, 10:6
And sware
by him that liveth for ever and ever,
who created heaven, and the things that therein are,
and the earth, and the things that therein are,
and the sea, and the things which are therein,
that there should be time no longer: 10:7
But in the days of the voice of the seventh
angel,
when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God
should be finished, as he hath declared to his servants the prophets. 10:8
And the voice which I heard from heaven spake
unto me again,
and said,
Go and take the little book which is open in the hand of the angel which standeth upon the sea and upon the earth. 10:9
[ABO: D&C 77 v14:
“Q. What are we to understand by the little book
which was eaten by John, as mentioned in the 10th chapter of Revelation?
A. We are to understand that it was a mission, and an ordinance, for him
to gather the tribes of Israel; behold, this is Elias, who, as it is written,
must come and restore all things.”]
And I went unto the angel, and said unto him,
Give me the little book.
And he said unto me,
Take it,
and eat it up;
and it shall make thy belly bitter,
but it shall be in thy mouth sweet as honey. 10:10
And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand,
and ate it up;
and it was in my mouth sweet as honey:
and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter. 10:11
And he said unto me,
Thou must prophesy again before many peoples,
and nations,
and tongues,
and kings. 11:1
And there was given me a reed like unto a rod:
and the angel stood,
saying,
Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship
therein. 11:2
But the court which is without the temple leave
out, and measure it not; for it is given unto the Gentiles:
and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months
[ABO: 3.5 years]. 11:3
And I will give power unto my two witnesses,
[ABO: D&C 77 v15 (Q&A re: revelation):
“Q. What is to be understood by the two witnesses, in the eleventh
chapter of Revelation?
A. They are two prophets that are to be raised up to the Jewish nation
in the last days, at the time of the restoration, and to prophesy to the Jews
after they are gathered and have built the city of Jerusalem in the land of
their fathers. ”
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days,
[1260 days = 3.5 years]
clothed in sackcloth. 11:4
These are the two olive trees,
and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth. 11:5
And if any man will hurt them,
fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth
their enemies:
and if any man will hurt them,
he must in this manner be killed. 11:6
These have power
to shut heaven,
that it rain not in the days of their prophecy:
and have power over waters
to turn them to blood,
and to smite the earth with all plagues,
as often as they will. 11:7
And when they shall have finished their testimony, the beast that ascendeth out of the bottomless pit
shall make war against them,
and shall overcome them,
and kill them. 11:8
And their dead bodies shall lie in the street of the great city,
which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt,
where also our Lord was crucified. 11:9
And they of the people and kindreds and tongues and nations
shall see their dead bodies three days and an
half,
[ABO: 3.5 days = 7 (A number of completion) “half-days”]
and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in graves. 11:10
And they that dwell upon the earth
shall rejoice over them,
and make merry,
and shall send gifts one to another;
because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth. 11:11
And after three days and an half [ABO: 3.5
days]
the spirit of life from God entered into them,
and they stood upon their feet;
[ABO: D&C 77: “They are two prophets that are to be raised up to
the Jewish nation in the last days, at the time of the restoration, and to
prophesy to the Jews after they are gathered and have built the city of
Jerusalem in the land of their fathers. “]
and great fear fell upon them which saw them. 11:12
And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them,
Come up hither.
And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud;
and their enemies beheld them. 11:13
And the same hour was there a great earthquake,
and the tenth part of the city fell,
and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand:
and the remnant were affrighted,
and gave glory to the God of heaven. 11:14
The second woe is past; and, behold, the third
woe cometh quickly. 11:15
[Angel sounding 7] And the
seventh angel sounded;
and there were great voices in heaven, saying,
The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his
Christ;
and he shall reign for ever and ever. 11:16
And the four and twenty elders, which sat before
God on their seats,
fell upon their faces,
and worshipped God, 11:17 Saying,
We give thee thanks, O LORD God Almighty,
which art,
and wast,
and art to come;
because thou hast taken to thee thy great power,
and hast reigned. 11:18
And the nations were angry,
and thy wrath is come,
and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged,
and that thou shouldest give reward
unto thy servants the prophets,
and to the saints,
and them that fear thy name, small and great;
and shouldest destroy them which destroy the earth. 11:19
And the temple of God was opened in heaven,
and there was seen in his temple the ark of his
testament:
and there were lightnings,
and voices,
and thunderings,
and an earthquake,
and great hail.
