The book of wonders

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...not have denied ME in my visitation to you; had he been clear, he would no more have denied you than he denied my Gospel, which you know from his preaching he went on powerfully to support.

"And now the prophecies I have given you concerning the individual referred to here is the Reverend Joseph Pomeroy ******* must be compared together: the two different ways they were spoken, and the two different ways they have been already fulfilled; but the end is not yet. There is a mystery concerning him, as I have told you, and mankind will find that in the end. And as it stood in two different ways for him, so in two different ways men must discern from the Prophets how the words were spoken of ME: first to come and die for the transgression of man, and at that time not to be esteemed by them, but to be forsaken by them. Know what is said by the Prophet Zechariah 12:10: 'And they shall look upon ME whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourns for his only son; and shall be in bitterness for him, as one is in bitterness for his firstborn.' And then I shall be the desire of nations, and then the desire of nations will come.

"And now I shall answer you regarding *******'s words, when he said to you, 'Leave me out of the question.' This was speaking perfectly like the Jews, who desired to have the Gospel left out of the question and would not believe in ME or my Gospel. Then they might as well leave all the Prophets out of the question; for they can no more prove the one without the other than you can prove your prophecies clear by leaving ******* out of the question. Because in his hands the truths were put at first, which served as signs to him, and to you, and as signs to mankind that it came from the Lord—that I had made it clear to you, through the knowledge

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of the truth, that your visitation was from the God of Truth. But how could this be known and proved if he had been left out of the question and his name concealed from mankind? And exactly so, I tell you now, men have not discerned in what manner he stands upon conditions, and how he has fulfilled them. Therefore I ordered you to bring the whole matter together and put it in print in the way I have explained it to you; so that in seeing they might see, and in hearing they might understand in what likeness the Scriptures stand with the words I spoke to you of *******.

"And now I shall come further to the Scriptures to show you where they stand without conditions that must be fulfilled to make them true.

Revelation 22:1, 2, 3, 13: 'And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb. In the midst of its street, and on either side of the river, was the tree of life, which bore twelve kinds of fruit, and yielded its fruit every month: and the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations. And there shall be no more curse.—I am Alpha and Omega original: "Alpha and Omega", meaning the Beginning and the End, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last.'

"Here let men observe how these words stand without any conditions, but as a promise that shall be fulfilled. But now I ask mankind: what kind of fruit, or what leaves, have already appeared to heal the nations? Have the prophets not existed in ages past? And were the nations healed by them? Has my Gospel not been here for nearly two thousand years? And are the nations healed by it? In your heart you answer, no. Then let them discern that the promise which stands on record—I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, the first and the last—is not fulfilled."