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A Voice from the Dust

Gary Kapp (1942– )

Medium

United States
ca. 2009
Oil

"Ezekiel prophesied that the stick of Joseph would come forth in the latter days to join the stick of Judah as another testament of Christ. The records delivered by Moroni to Joseph Smith were indeed the fulfillment of this prophecy. The prophet Nephi wrote: 'Behold, I prophesy unto you concerning the last days; concerning the days when the Lord God shall bring these things forth unto the children of men. . . . For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto them out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the dust, and their voice shall be as one that hath a familiar spirit; for the Lord God will give unto him power, that he may whisper concerning them, even as it were out of the ground; and their speech shall whisper out of the dust'” (2 Nephi 26:14, 16).