An explanation of the parables

shadow of his fury on the one hand, and but the
shadow of my mercy and goodness on the other.
When I come to shake the fabric of the earth, as
thou shakedst thy brother’s house, every thing that
happened to thee at Bristol, they will find are deep
types and shadows of the end, and a comfort to
strengthen believers.”

In a few days the Sign set before me was fulfilled;
and I was ordered to open my Bible, which I did;
it was in the 1st and 3rd chapters of Ezekiel, to
which I was answered in the following manner, from
the first Chapter:

“ Now come to the wheels that brought the rings,
which thou by no means canst understand; neither
can any man understand the chapter, or understand
the vision that was shown to the prophet. And now I
ask thee, to what purpose this vision was shown to the
prophet, that no man can understand? or of what
use is it to mankind, if it is not designed to be un-
derstood, that these things stand for the end? Now
I shall answer thee from this vision. The appear-
ance of wheels within wheels shows the wondrous
works of your CREATOR, that the wheels of provi-
dence and my decrees were not understood; they
have been as great mysteries to mankind as this
chapter appears to thee; but this chapter showeth
you all the end, when my Spirit begins to work on
all the living creatures, and to give a new life to
mankind. As marvellous as this chapter appears,
of seeing the wheels turn round, and such strange
living creatures appear to move, as the Spirit leads
them, so strange will the end appear, when I come
to give new life to the whole; therefore I tell thee,
the meaning of the chapter never can be understood
by man, why these living creatures appeared in the
likeness of man and beast, as the mixture is here
described; and yet, I tell thee, this is the state of
man; tainted by Satan and by sin, these mixtures
appear in him. But do men vainly suppose, that