Footnotes
Revelation, 12 July 1843 [D&C 132].
In a 21 May 1843 discourse, JS mentioned eternal covenants but did not connect the subject with marriage. (See Discourse, 21 May 1843.)
Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:91–95]. On 27 May 1843, during a meeting of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, JS stated that “the patriarchal office is the highest office in the church.” (Minutes and Discourse, 27 May 1843.)
A 12 July 1843 revelation including instruction on eternal marriage stated, “If a man marry him a wife, in the world, and he marry her not by me, nor by my word; and he covenant with her, So long as he is in the world, and She with him, their covenant and marriage is not of force when they are dead, and when they are out of the world therefore they are not bound by any law when they are out of the world.” (Revelation, 12 July 1843 [D&C 132:15].)
In early 1841, JS dictated a revelation that commanded the building of the Nauvoo temple, explaining that “there is not place found on the earth; that he [God] may come and restore again that which was lost unto you, or which he hath taken away, even the fulness of the Priesthood.” According to Levi Richards’s brief account of the featured discourse, JS further stated that the temple would be necessary so “the Servant[s] of God may be sealed in their foreheads” and that “the 4 Angels” would not be “permitted to destroy the earth till it [the temple] was done,” allusions to the book of Revelation. (Revelation, 19 Jan. 1841 [D&C 124:28]; Levi Richards, Journal, 16 July 1843; Revelation 7:1–8; 14:1.)
Richards, Levi. Journals, 1840–1853. Levi Richards, Papers, 1837–1867. CHL. MS 1284, box 1.