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THE BOOK OF ETHER
CHAPTER 4
  9 And at my command the heavens are opened and are ashut; and at my word the bearth shall shake; and at my command the inhabitants thereof shall pass away, even so as by fire.

Footnotes
9a
1 Kgs. 8: 35.
  35 ¶ When heaven is ashut up, and there is no brain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou afflictest them:
D&C 77: 8.
  8 Q. What are we to understand by the four aangels, spoken of in the 7th chapter and 1st verse of Revelation?
  A. We are to understand that they are four angels sent forth from God, to whom is given power over the four parts of the earth, to save life and to destroy; these are they who have the beverlasting gospel to commit to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people; having power to cshut up the heavens, to seal up unto life, or to cast down to the dregions of darkness.
b
Hel. 12: 11 (8-18).
  11 Yea, by the power of his voice doth the awhole earth shake;
Morm. 5: 23.
  23 Know ye not that ye are in the ahands of God? Know ye not that he hath all power, and at his great command the bearth shall be crolled together as a scroll?