A Revelation, concerning the standing of apostles Sidney Rigdon and George Adams, given on October 19, 1846.
1a The General Conference of the Church of the Saints, assembled at Voree on the nineteenth day of October, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-six,
1b Having under consideration the standing of Sidney Rigdon, one of the First Presidents of the Church, who acteth not in his Presidency and cometh not up to do his duty and stand in his calling, could not sustain him with their faith and prayers;
1c Therefore they with one voice desired James J. Strang, the Prophet of the Lord, to inquire his will concerning his servant Sidney Rigdon.
2 And now this is the answer of the Lord concerning him:
3a Behold, verily, my servant Sidney Rigdon rebelleth against me, and hath rebelled against me for a long time;
3b And I was grieved with him, yet I felt after him and had compassion on him and remembered his faith and his labors, and reproved him by my Spirit and by afflictions and by judgments,
3c But he would none of my reproofs. Satan troubleth him, and he hath sought to establish his own work and not mine; for Satan inspireth him thereto, and hath entered into him, and giveth him thoughts and dreams and visions.
3d Therefore he shall not stand in his Presidency; for I do take his office from him, and give it unto one who will serve me.
4a Therefore, my servant George J. Adams shall be one of the First Presidents of my Church, to stand instead of Sidney Rigdon, to assist my servant James J. Strang in the Presidency of my Church,
4b That my word may go forth to the ends of the earth and to all the nations thereof, to the Gentiles first and then to the Jews;
4c For the day cometh, and is near at hand, when the arm of the Lord shall be revealed in power in converting the heathen and the house of Ephraim and the house of Manasseh to the gospel of their salvation.
5a And the fulness of the unpolluted gospel shall go forth to all nations, and the unpolluted words of the prophets who are in their graves shall be spoken again to men on earth, that they may know that I am God, and there is none else.