Wilford Woodruff teaches that this is the only dispensation that will not fall into a Great Apostasy.

Date
1874
Type
Speech / Court Transcript
Source
Wilford Woodruff
LDS
Hearsay
Scribed Verbatim
Reference

Wilford Woodruff, “Saints Are Chosen—Eternal Life Worth More Than All Things Else—Works Must correspond With Faith—Prayer to God a Duty,” October 9, 1874, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols. (Liverpool: Joseph F. Smith, 1874), 17:245

Scribe/Publisher
David W. Evans
People
Wilford Woodruff
Audience
Reading Public, Members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
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Transcription

This is the only dispensation that God has ever established that was foreordained, before the world was made, not to be overcome by wicked men and devils. All other dispensations have been made war upon by the inhabitants of the earth, and the servants and Saints of God have been martyred. This was the case with Jesus and the Apostles in their day. The Lord gave that good old Prophet Enoch, President of the Zion of God, who stood in the midst, of his people three hundred and sixty five years, a view of the earth in its various dispensations, showing him that the time would come when it would groan under the wickedness, blasphemy, murders, whoredoms and abominations of its inhabitants. The Prophet asked the Lord whether there would ever be a time when the earth should rest; and the Lord answered that in the dispensation of the fulness of times the earth would fill the measure of its days, and then it would rest from wickedness and abominations, for in that day be would establish his kingdom upon it, to be thrown down no more for ever. Then a reign of righteousness would commence and the honest and meek of the earth would be gathered together to serve the Lord, and upon them would rest power to build up the great Zion of God in the latter days. These things were also shown to Abraham, and many others of the ancient servants of God had glimpses of them by vision, revelation and the inspiration of the Spirit of God, and what they saw, or an account of what they saw, has been left on record.

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