An Extract from a Revelation, concerning Kirtland and its rebellion, given on December 21, 1846.
1a Because Kirtland is filled with unbelief and apostasy; and those who have gathered there and taken my name upon them regard not my word, and hearken not to my law, neither observe my counsel nor hear the words of my prophets,
1b But have altogether rejected mine anointed, done violence to the truth, refused my word, and rebelled against my law and mine authority-
1c Therefore shall Kirtland be a waste and a desolation, a den of wickedness, and a habitation of the unfaithful, the unbelieving, and the rebellious.
1d And the desolation thereof shall continue, nor shall it be cleansed of its uncleanness until they who have polluted it be utterly destroyed therefrom;
1e For they seek continually to deceive and to be deceived, and will neither be faithful themselves nor suffer others to become pure in their midst.
1f And they seek the establishment of their own will rather than mine, but they shall be utterly confounded, and their desolation shall increase and become heaps, and their substance shall waste, and their houses shall fall, and their land shall fail of its increase, and the waters thereof shall dry up.
2a There shall Satan’s seat be, and there shall be the gathering of unclean things, for they will not obey me.
2b And their power, and their authority, and their blessings, I take from them, that I may bestow them upon another people whom I will call together;
2c And from the midst of Kirtland will I call all who will turn unto me and serve me, that they may escape its curses.
2d Let all my saints flee from Kirtland as from a desolating scourge, and let them not gather there; for it is no longer a stake for the curtains of the strength of Zion, but is a rent and a weakness and a nakedness of unbelief.