Lesson 35: God Reveals His Secrets to His Prophets

Reading 1 – Amos 7:7-8

Reading 2 – Psalms 15:1-2

Reading 3 – 1 Nephi 16:3

Mosiah 2:32-33

Reading 4 – Amos 3:6-7

Reading 5 – Elder Orson F. Whitney said: "The need for prophecy must be evident to any pious and reflective mind. Prophets are as watchmen on the tower, noting the time of night, telling of the approaching dawn. 'Surely the Lord God will do nothing, but he revealeth his secret unto his servants the prophets.' This means, as I interpret it, that the allwise Dispenser of human affairs will neither cause nor permit any event to take place, concerning which the world need to have fore-knowledge, until he has communicated with his chosen servants, his oracles among men, and has given them due notice of its approach." (Saturday Night Thoughts, p15)

Reading 6 - Elder Matthias F. Cowley said : "From this we learn that if there are no prophets of the Lord, then our Heavenly Father is doing nothing in a religious sense among the people of this earth; but if He is doing a work among them for their redemption, then there must be prophets." (Cowley's Talks on Doctrine, p23)

Reading 7 – Doctrine and Covenants 1:37-38

Reading 8 – Doctrine and Covenants 21:4-5

Doctrine and Covenants 21:6

Reading 9 – Amos 7:10-13

Amos 6:1, 3-4, 7-8

Reading 10 - President Ezra Taft Benson said: "It is not going to be enough just to accept the teachings, standards, and ideals of the Church passively. It will require real activity, real dedication to the principles of righteousness if we are to face the future unafraid. But if we have the courage, sound judgment, and the faith so to do, then no matter what happens we will be able to face any situation with courage and with faith and with the assurance that God will sustain us. I know that now is the time probably more than any other time in our lives to live the gospel. We should not be lulled away into false security as Nephi said many would be in the last days. We should not be pacified and feel in our hearts that we can sin a little, that we can attend to our meetings part of the time, that we can pay a token tithing, that we can live the gospel when it is convenient, and all will be well. We must not be 'at ease in Zion' and say 'Zion prospers, all is well' (2 Nephi 28:21, 24). But we must live the gospel plan in its fulness every day of our lives. Therein is safety. Therein will come a satisfaction which comes from righteous living which will enter our hearts, give us the courage and the strength that we need. There is no security in unrighteousness. The sinful always live in despair (see Moroni 10:22)." (Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson, pp337-338)

Reading 11– Amos 8:11-13

Joseph Smith 1:41

Joel 2:28-32

Joel 2:12-27

Joel 3:16-17