Revelation, 3 April 1836 [D&C 110]

be poured out upon the heads of my people. even so  amen. After this vision closed, the Heavens were  again opened unto them and Moses appeared before them  and committed unto them 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 gathering

As directed by early revelations, church members “gathered” in communities. A revelation dated September 1830, for instance, instructed elders “to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect” who would “be gathered in unto one place, upon the face of this land...

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of  Israel from the four parts of the Eearth and the lead ing of the ten tribes from the Land of the North.  After this Elias appeared and committed the dispens ation of the gospel of Abraham, saying, that in them  and their seed all generations after them should be  blessed. After this vision had closed, another great and  glorious vision burts [burst] upon them, for Elijah, the Prophet,  who was taken to Heaven without tasting death, also  stood before them, and said, behold the time has  fully come which was spoken of by the mouth of  Malachi, testifying, that he should be sent before  the great and dreadful day of the Lord come, to turn  the hearts of the Fathers to the chil dren, and the children to the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten  with a curse. Therefore, 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 this 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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are  committed into your hands, and by this ye may know  that the great and the dreadful day of the Lord is  near, even at the doors [p. 193]