Kirtland 8th of March 1833

A Commandment given unto Joseph saying,  thus saith the Lord; verily, verily, I say unto you my son,  thy sins are forgiven thee according to thy petition:  for thy prayer, and the prayer of thy brethren, have  come up into my ears; therefore, thou art blessed  from hence forth that bear the keys of the kingdom,  given unto you; which kingdom is coming forth for  the Last time. verily I say unto you, the keys of this  kingdom shall never be taken from you, whilst thou  art in the world; neither in the world to come, nev ertheless through you shall the oricles be given unto another,  yea, even unto the church: and all they who receive  the oricles of God, let them be aware how they hold  them, lest they are accounted as a light thing. and  are brought under condemnation thereby and stum ble and fall when the storms descend & the winds blow  and the rains descend and beat upon their house  and again verily I say unto thy brethren Sidney [Rigdon] and  Fredrick [Frederick G. Williams] their sins are forgiven them also and  they are accounted as equal with thee in holding  the keys of this Last Kingdom as also through  your administration the <keys of the> school of the prophets  which I have commanded to be organized that  thereby they may be perfected in their minstry  for the salvation of Zion and of the Nations  of Israel and of the Gentiles as many as will  believe that through your administration they  may receive the word and through their adm inistration the word may go forth unto the  ends of the earth unto the Gentiles first and  then behold and Lo they shall turn unto the  Jews and then cometh the day when the arm  of the Lord shall be reveiled in power in  convincing the nations the heathen nations the  house of Joseph of the Gospel of their salvation for  it shall come to pass in that day that evry man shall  hear the fulness of the Gospel in his own Tongue  and in his own Language through thou who are ordained  unto this power [p. [1]]