Instruction on Priesthood, 5 October 1840

Commencing with Adam who was the first man of whom  it is spoken of in Daniel as being “the Antient of days”  or in other words the first and oldest of all, the great  grand progenitor of whom it is said in another  place he is michael because he was the first and  father of all, not only by progeny, but he was the  first to hold the spiritual blessings, the plan  to whom was made known the plan of ordinances

A religious rite. JS taught that ordinances were covenants between man and God, in which believers could affirm faith, gain spiritual knowledge, and seek blessings. Some ordinances were considered requisite for salvation. The manner in which ordinances were...

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 for the Salvation of his posterity unto the end, and  to whom Christ was first revealed, and through  whom christ has been revealed from heaven and  will continue to be revealed from henceforth.  Adam holds the keys

In the early church, the term keys referred to JS’s authority to unlock the “mysteries of the kingdom.” Early revelations declared that both JS and Oliver Cowdery held the keys to bring forth “those parts of my scriptures which have been hidden because of...

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of the dispensation

A period of God’s work on earth, such as the “dispensation of the gospel of Abraham.” The biblical phrase “dispensation of the fulness of times” appears often in the writing of early Latter-day Saints; they typically used it to describe the final dispensation...

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of the fulness  of times, i.e. the dispensation of all the times have  been and will be revealed through him from the  beginning to Christ and from Christ to the end  of the all world the dispensations that have to be reveald