Revelation, 12 August 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 61]
Source Note
Revelation, Bank of the [at McIlwaine’s Bend], MO, 12 Aug. 1831. Version copied [ca. Sept. 1831] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [37]–[45]; handwriting of ; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].
faith they shall overcome and inasmuch as they are faithful they shall be preserved & I the Lord will be with them, and let the residue take that which is needful for clothing, let my servant take that which is not needful with him as you shall agree, and now behold for your good I give unto you a concerning these things, and I the Lord will reason with you as with men in days of old, behold I the Lord in the beginning blessed the waters, but in the last days by the mouth of my servant John I cursed the waters, wherefore the days will come that no flesh shall be safe upon the waters, and it shall be said in days to come that none is able to go up to the Land of upon the waters, but he that is upright in heart, and as I the Lord in the beginning cursed [p. [39]]