David Whitmer

“ Records are yet to come forth which "reveal all things from the foundation of the world unto the end thereof"; all things which have been done, and all things which are yet to be done—the great and wondrous mysteries and the works of God which are yet to transpire. ”

“ They did not stop to consider that God had his own time in which his great and marvelous works should be done among the inhabitants of the earth. They thought that the time for building the city New Jerusalem must be now at hand—in their time—man's time—and that they were the ones who were to build it. In this condition of heart, brought about by their unwise zeal and the spirit of man to do great things, instead of being humble, they had Brother Joseph to get a revelation as to the time of building that city, and gathering into it. ”

“ Isaiah, when prophesying of events to take place in the same dispensation, but more than a thousand years apart, speaks of them in the same chapter by saying "at that day"; when a person who does not understand the scriptures might think from his language that the events were to transpire within a few years of each other. ”