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JOSEPH SMITH—HISTORY
EXTRACTS FROM THE HISTORY OF JOSEPH SMITH, THE PROPHET

45 He commenced, and ^aagain related the very same things which he had done at his first visit, without the least variation; which having done, he informed me of great ^bjudgments which were coming upon the earth, with great desolations by ^cfamine, ^dsword, and pestilence; and that these grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation. Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.

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45a	Ezek. 2: 3 (1-10). 3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I ^asend thee to the children of Israel, to a ^brebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. Ezek. 3: 4 (1-27). 4 ¶ And he said unto me, Son of man, go, get thee unto the house of Israel, and speak with my words unto them.
b	TG Judgment.
c	TG Famine.
d	Deut. 32: 25. 25 The ^asword without, and terror within, shall destroy both the young man and the virgin, the suckling also with the man of gray hairs. 1 Ne. 1: 13. 13 And he read, saying: Wo, wo, unto Jerusalem, for I have seen thine ^aabominations! Yea, and many things did my father read concerning ^bJerusalem—that it should be destroyed, and the inhabitants thereof; many should perish by the sword, and many should be ^ccarried away captive into Babylon. Alma 10: 22. 22 Yea, and I say unto you that if it were not for the ^aprayers of the righteous, who are now in the land, that ye would even now be visited with utter destruction; yet it would not be by ^bflood, as were the people in the days of ^cNoah, but it would be by famine, and by pestilence, and the ^dsword.