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Doctrine and Covenants 100-101

Doctrine and Covenants 100-101. Doctrine and Covenants 100:1 “The friend of the Lord knows both Him and His ways.” John 15:15 The Lord will take care of your families, they are in His hands! Doctrine and Covenants 100:1-8 491 claims at a cost of $1,300,000 dollars to the Church!

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Doctrine and Covenants 100-101

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  1. Doctrine and Covenants 100-101

  2. Doctrine and Covenants 100:1 “The friend of the Lord knows both Him and His ways.” John 15:15 The Lord will take care of your families, they are in His hands! Doctrine and Covenants 100:1-8 491 claims at a cost of $1,300,000 dollars to the Church! All who desire exaltation must be tested and tried to be proven in all things (Harold B. Lee) Hebrews 5:8-9.

  3. Doctrine and Covenants 100:3-4 “New York and Canada” “One of the highlights of this missionary experience occurred on Sunday, October 27, after Joseph and Sidney had preached to a group fathered in the Nickerson home. Twelve converts were baptized, including Freeman Nickerson’s two adult sons, Moses and Eleazar, and Lydia Bailey, who later married Newel Knight in Kirtland. That evening, the Prophet conducted a confirmation meeting. After partaking of the sacrament, the missionaries laid their hands on the heads of the converts and bestowed the gift of the Holy Ghost. The success of the missionaries’ labors continued the following day when they baptized two additional converts and confirmed them near the water’s edge. That night they held their last meeting in the area, during which they ordained Eleazar Nickerson and elder and witness one of the sisters speaking in tongues…

  4. “Missionary work in upper Cananda continued after Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon left that region. Writing to Sidney Rigdon on December 20, 1833, Moses Nickerson observed: ‘Your labors while in Canada have been the beginning of a good work: there are 34 members attached to the Church at Mt. Pleasant, all of whom appear to live up to their profession, five of whom have spoken in tongues and three sing in tongues: and we live at the top of the mountain. For my part, I feel that I cannot be thankful enough for that which I have received: the scriptures have been opened to my view beyond account.’

  5. “Moses Nickerson requested that other missionaries be sent to that area, and John P. Greene was called to serve there. Writing to the editor of the Messenger and Advocate, he reported that he had been received by the Saints with expressions of joy, and many were desirous to be instructed more perfectly in the word of the Lord. ‘I labored in this region about two months with a good degree of satisfaction,’ he stated, ‘and preached the gospel to many hundreds of souls’” (Heavens Resound, 117-18).

  6. This missionary experience left Joseph Smith with a special love for the Saints in Mount Pleasant, Canada: “I remember Brother Freeman and wife, Ransom also, and Sister Lydia, and little Charles, with all the brethren and sisters. I entreat for an interest in all your prayers before the throne of mercy, in the name of Jesus. I hope the Lord will grant that I may see you all again, and above all that we may overcome, and sit down together in the kingdom of our Father” (Teachings, 29-30).

  7. Doctrine and Covenants 100:9 “Sidney, should be a spokesman” In these early years of the Church’s history, both Oliver Cowdery and Sidney Rigdon were better public speakers than the Prophet. Doctrine and Covenants 101:6 “Those who cannot endure persecution” “Those who cannot endure persecution,” stated the Prophet Joseph Smith, “and stand in the day of affliction, cannot stand in the day when the Son of God shall burst the veil, and appear in all glory of His Father, with all the holy angels” (Teachings, 42).

  8. Doctrine and Covenants 101:16 “Be still and know that I am” Doctrine and Covenants 101:26-32 “Five features of the Millennium” • v. 26 Enmity of all flesh • v. 27 Whatsoever any man shall ask, it shall be given unto him. • v. 28 Satan shall not have power to tempt any man. • v. 29-31 No sorrow because there is no death. • v. 32 The Lord will reveal all things.

  9. Doctrine and Covenants 101:31 “Shall be caught up” Those changed “in the twinkling of an eye” will not remain on the earth. The Prophet Joseph Smith recorded: “Christ and the resurrected Saints will reign over the earth during the thousand years. They will not probably dwell upon the earth, but will visit it when they please, or when it is necessary to govern it” (Teachings, 268).

  10. Some people will not be caught up after their death. Joseph taught, “There will be wicked men on the earth during the thousand years. The heather nations who will not come up to worship will be visited with the judgments of God, and must eventually be destroyed from the earth” (Teachings, 268-69). Isaiah 65:20 – but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.

  11. Doctrine and Covenants 101:39-40 “Salt that has lost its savor” In ancient times salt was acquired in its natural state. It had to be washed before it could be used for seasoning food or for other purposes. After it had been cleansed, the residue or tailings were tossed upon walkways to be trodden down by the feet of men. How powerful the imagery! Once we have been gathered, we are washed and cleansed and our impurities are discarded. As Saints, we have a duty to serve as a savor, to bring out the best, to elicit all that is good. This is a power lost to us only if we choose to contaminate ourselves with things of the world.

  12. Doctrine and Covenants 101:40 “Warning” “God will hold you responsible for those whom you might have saved had you done your duty’ (John Taylor, JD, 20:23). Doctrine and Covenants 101:75 “There is already in store sufficient” If members of the church do real proselyting in their home wards the number of converts could grow to astronomical figures and even hasten the time of the Lord’s Second Coming (President Spencer W. Kimball, Oct. Conf., 1976).

  13. Doctrine and Covenants 101:78 “Free Agency?” No such phrase as “free agency” are found in the scriptures. It should be “moral agency.” Agency is not free and comes at a heavy price.

  14. Doctrine and Covenants 101:80 J. Reuben Clark said that because of this verse, it puts the Constitution of the United States in the position as if were written in the Doctrine and Covenants (C.R. April, 1935). “For this purpose have I established the Constitution of this land”. Wilford Woodruff, fourth President of the restored Church, spoke of the early American patriots: “I am going to bear my testimony to this assembly, if I never do it again in my life, that those men who laid the foundation of this American government and signed the Declaration of Independence were the best spirits the God of heaven could find on the face of the earth. They were choice spirits, not wicked men. General Washington and all the men that labored for the purpose were inspired of the Lord.

  15. “…Every one of those men that signed the Declaration of Independence, with General Washington called upon me, as an Apostle of the Lord Jesus Christ, in the Temple at St. George, two consecutive nights, and demanded at my hands that I should go forth and attend to the ordinances of the House of God for them” (C.R., Apr., 1898, 89-90).

  16. All fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence have had their temple work done, these are the ones who appeared to President Woodruff in the St. George Temple. In fact, according to Wilford Woodruff’s journal, George Washington, Christopher Columbus, Benjamin Franklin and John Wesley were also ordained toe he Melchizedek Priesthood office of High Priest at that time by proxy (see Ezra Taft Benson, “God’s Hand in our Nation’s History,” in Speeches of the Year, 1976, 307).

  17. Elder Wilford Woodruff said that the signers of the Declaration of Independence and others such as John Wesley and Columbus appeared to him, wanted to know why their temple work had not been done. They said, “You have had the use of the Endowment House for a number of years and yet nothing has been done for us. We laid the foundation of the government you now enjoy, and we never apostatized from it, but we remained true to it and were faithful to God.’ “Elder Woodruff said they waited on me for two days and two nights.” Then he straightway went into the baptismal font and called upon Brother McCallister” to baptize him. Thus, the necessary ordinances were performed for these people in the St. George Temple (JD, 19:229).

  18. “Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground, and when the Constitution is upon the brink of ruin, this people will be the Staff upon which the Nation shall lean, and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction” (Joseph Smith, Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith, 304).

  19. There are also other documents in Church History files that show that five different early Saints recorded some remarks by Joseph Smith on this same prophecy. Parley P. Pratt wrote in 1841 that Joseph said, “The government is fallen and needs redeeming. It is guilty of Blood and cannot stand as it now is but will come so near desolation as to hang as it were by a single hair! Then the servants goes to the nations of the earth, and gathers the strength of the Lord’s house! A mighty army! And this is the redemption of Zion when the saints shall have redeemed that government and reinstated it in all its purity and glory (George A. Smith Papers, Church Archives, Box 7, Folder 5, January 21, 1841).

  20. James Burgess related that the Prophet, while addressing the Nauvoo Legion several miles east of Nauvoo in May 1843, said that “the time would come when the constitution and government would hang by a brittle thread and would be ready to fall into other hands but this people the latter-day saints will step forth and save it” (James Burgess Journal, 1818-1904, Church Archives, vol. 1 --- found among loose sermons). Orson Hyde recalled that the Prophet predicted that “the time would come that the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow and said he, if the constitution be saved at all, it will be by the Elders of this Church. I believe this is about the language as nearly as I can recollect it” (JD, 6:150).

  21. In a Pioneer Day celebration in Ogden in 1871, Eliza R. Snow said, “I heard the prophet say, “The time will come when the government of these United States will be so nearly overthrown through its corruption, that the Constitution will hang as it were by a single hair, and the Latter-day Saints --- the Elders of Israel --- will step forward to its rescue and save it” (Journal History, MSF 143 #28, July 24, 1871). In support of this view of “constant vigilance,” it is most instructive to note that Church leaders have seen the Constitution imperiled a number of times. Brigham Young, reflecting on the prophecy of 1868, expressed: “It would not be many years before these words come to pass” (JD, 12:204). President J. Reuben Clark, Jr., warned in 1942: “Whether it [the Constitution] shall live or die is now in the balance” (CR, October 1942, 58).

  22. I believe as the Prophet Joseph has written, that the day would come when there would be so much of disorder, of secret combinations taking the law into their own hands, tramping upon Constitutional rights and the liberties of the people, that the Constitution would hang as by a thread. Yes, but it will still hang, and there will be enough of good people, many who may not belong to our Church at all, people who have respect for law and for order, and for Constitutional rights, who will rally around with us and save the Constitution. I have never read that that thread would be cut. It will hang; the Constitution will abide and this civilization, that the Lord has caused to be built up, will stand fortified through the power of God, by putting from our hearts all that is evil, or that is wrong in the sight of God, by our living as we should live, acceptable to him (Charles W. Nibley, CR, Oct. 1922, 40).

  23. I believe that it is the destiny of the Latter-day Saints to support the Constitution of the United States. The Prophet Joseph Smith is alleged to have said --- and I believe he did say it --- that the day would come when the Constitution would hang as by a thread. But he saw that the thread did not break, thank the Lord, and that the Latter-day Saints would become a balance of power, with others, to preserve that Constitution. If there is --- and there is one part of the Constitution hanging as by a thread today --- where do the Latter-day Saints belong? Their place is to rally to the support of that Constitution, and maintain it and defend it and support it by their lives and by their vote. Let us not disappoint God nor his prophet. Our place is fixed (Melvin J. Ballard, CR, April 1933, 127).

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