Tag: Doctrine and Covenants
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10 June 2008
D&C 103Here was the official call to form Zion’s Camp. They were told to gather 500 people. Barring that they were to have at least 100 people in the camp. They ended up having about 200 – I wonder if that was a result (or even a cause) of a lack of faith among the…
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9 June 2008
D&C 102I think it is easy to forget sometimes that church government is government and operates from the same rules of order even though it operates in accordance to higher rules of law. It seems that we often participate in things like sustaining as a rite and not as a responsibility for thoughtful consideration and…
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8 June 2008
D&C 101: 65 – 101The Wheat and the tares must be separated into clusters of similarity as part of the harvest process which is why we must build Zion or gather to Zion where the wheat will be attracted to gather and allow the tares to band together into enclaves of those who do not…
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7 June 2008
D&C 101: 1 – 64Though the saints in Zion were being chastened for their transgressions the Lord promises that they will be among His jewels after they have been refined through trials. All who have come to be upon the watch-tower at the day when the wrath of the Lord is poured out upon all…
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5 June 2008
D&C 99I wonder how old John Murdock was that he was called, if he desired, to preach the gospel for the remainder of his life after his children were provided for, “and sent up kindly to the bishop in Zion.” Essentially it sounds like an invitation to never return home which would be unbearable if…
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4 June 2008
D&C 98Anything more or less than the constitutional law of the land cometh of evil. I’d like to know what portions of the constitution existed by 1833 (not more than the 12th amendment for sure). Then I would evaluate any new constitutional amendments based on their consistency with what was in place when this revelation…
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3 June 2008
D&C 97“All . . . who know their hearts are honest, and are broken, and their spirits contrite, and are willing to observe their covenants by sacrifice – yea, every sacrifice which I, the Lord, shall command – they are accepted of me. For I, the Lord, will cause them to bring forth as a…
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2 June 2008
D&C 96In some ways this seems to answer my question form section 94 – the saints may have expressed some curiosity on why they should focus on Kirtland if Zion was in Missouri. The Lord tells them that they need to make Kirtland strong (even if they don’t know the full plan). John Johnson is…
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1 June 2008
D&C 95“Walking in darkness at noon day” Sometimes I feel that way.“Let the house be built not after the manner of the world for I give not unto you that ye shall live after the manner of the world.”