A continuation of the controversy

bring peace and good will to mankind; and without my being born for man, the promises that stand on record could never be fulfilled. But now let men discern, from my Gospel, what shadow of the words was fulfilled by my disciples, who gave glory to God in the highest when they saw the miracles performed by ME, and the faith they had in believing from what they had seen and heard through my Gospel. Thus, let men discern what shadow shadow a partial or preliminary fulfillment of a greater truth was in a few, of giving glory to God, and what their faith was—that I would establish peace in the end. Here the shadow began in them, of what the substance will be in the end, when all will give glory to God in the highest; when I come to establish peace and righteousness on the earth and fulfill the promises made in my Gospel.

But let men discern from the other passage that I ordered you to bring forward—Simeon’s words—that my Gospel would be the fall of many in Israel, as they would be cut off in unbelief. And now, in the perfect likeness of that chapter, stands the communication that I ordered you at this time to put in print. Let men discern the promises made to true believers and the faith they are established in; but how different are the words spoken of the unbelieving world!

These things were only shadows placed in the five years, indicating what the end should be. But when the end comes for me to fulfill my promises and establish my kingdom according to my promises, and what I was born to do in the end; then the substance will come to the believers, and those who mock will then be cut off, and these divisions among men will cease. But did I tell you they would cease and the end would be established within the five years? Did I not tell you that unbelief would abound, and men would judge that no second coming was near? This I plainly