hid from before the foundation of the world; things that pertain to the dispensation of the fulness of times, and I will shew unto my servant Joseph, all things pertaining to this house, and the thereof, and the place whereon it shall be built; and you shall build it on the place where you have contemplated building it; for that is the spot which I have chosen for you to build it. If you labour with all your mights, I will consecrate that spot, that it shall be made holy; and if my people will hearken unto my voice, and unto the voice of my servants whom I have appointed, to lead my people, behold verily I say unto you, they shall not be moved out of their place. But if they will not hearken to my voice nor unto the voice of these men whom I have appointed, they shall not be blest, because they pollute mine holy grounds, and mine holy , and charters, and my holy words, which I give unto them.
14 And it shall come to pass, that if you build a unto my name, and do not the things that I say, I will not perform the oath which I make unto you, neither fulfil the promises which ye expect at my hands, saith the Lord for instead of blessings, ye, by your own works, bring cursings, wrath indignation, and judgments upon your own heads by your follies, and by all your abominations which you practise before me saith the Lord.
15 Verily, verily I say unto you that when I give a commandment unto any of the sons of men, to do a work unto my name, and those sons of men go with all their mights, and with all they have, to perform that work, and cease not their diligence, and their enemies come upon them, and hinder them from performing that work: behold it behooveth me to require that work no more at the hands of those sons of men, but to accept of their offerings; and the iniquity and transgression of my holy laws and commandments, I will visit upon the heads of those who hindered my work, unto the third and fourth generation, so long as they repent not and hate me saith the Lord God. Therefore, for this cause have I accepted the offerings of those whom I commanded to build up a city and a house unto [p. 5]