Revelation, February 1831–A [D&C 43]

Come before you with as Revelations or commandments

Generally, a divine mandate that church members were expected to obey; more specifically, a text dictated by JS in the first-person voice of deity that served to communicate knowledge and instruction to JS and his followers. Occasionally, other inspired texts...

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 & this I give unto you that you may not be deceived, that  you may know they are not of me for Verily I say unto  you that he that is ordained of me shall come in at the  gate & be ordained

The conferral of power and authority; to appoint, decree, or set apart. Church members, primarily adults, were ordained to ecclesiastical offices and other responsibilities by the laying on of hands by those with the proper authority. Ordinations to priesthood...

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as I have told you before to teach those  Revelations which you have received & shall receive  through him whom I have appointed— & now Behold  I give unto you a commandment that when ye are  assembled yourselves together ye shall note with a  Pen how to act, & for my Church to act upon  the points of my law & commandments which I have  given & thus it shall become a law unto you being  Sanctified by that which ye have received that ye  shall bind yourselves to act in all holiness before  me that in as much as ye do this glory shall be  ad[d]ed to the Kingdom which ye have received, inasmuch  as ye do it not it shall be taken even that which  ye have received, purge ye out the iniquity which  is among you Sanctify yourselves before me & if ye  desire the glories of the Kingdom appoint ye my  Servent & uphold him before me by the prayer of faith  & again I say unto you that if you desire the mysteries  of the Kingdom provide for him food & raiment &  whatsoever is thing he needeth to accomplish the work  which I have commanded him & if ye do it not he shall  remain unto them that have received him that I may  reserve unto myself a pure People before me—

Again I say hearken ye Elders

An administrative and ecclesiastical office not associated with age. The Book of Mormon explained that elders ordained priests and teachers and administered “the flesh and blood of Christ unto the church.” The articles and covenants of the church directed...

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of my Church

The Book of Mormon related that when Christ set up his church in the Americas, “they which were baptized in the name of Jesus, were called the church of Christ.” The first name used to denote the church JS organized on 6 April 1830 was “the Church of Christ...

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whom I  have appointed ye are not sent forth to be taught but to  teach the Children of men the things which I have put  in your hands by the power of my Spirit & ye are  to be taught from on high Sanctify yourselves & ye  shall be endowed with power from on high that ye  may give even as I have spoken hearken ye for  Behold the great day of the Lord is nigh at hand for the  day cometh that the Lord shall utter his voice out of [p. 68]