D&C 1 and 67: The Voice of Warning

Here are the quotes & statements that were referred to in class:

The Isaiah Connection

This is a scan of the page from the Geneva Bible I brought into class of Isaiah 49. The page was printed in a bible sometime between 1566 and 1640.

You can click on it for a larger image.

Pre-Quiz: Profile of God’s Servant

You are invited to test your knowledge by identifying the servant of God described with the following clues:

1. His family was often in trouble and moved about a good deal.
2. His parents were described as being of the lowest social class and having the loosest morals.
3. As a young man he said things that astonished and disturbed people.
4. Local ministers stirred up trouble and spread scandalous reports about him and his family.
5. He claimed to be the agent of God chosen to restore the gospel in its purity.
6. He preached to those who professed to already having the way to salvation, not to the heathen who professed no belief in God.
7. The greater part of the people of his day rejected him and his message while claiming a belief in the prophets of past ages.
8. He was rejected in the name of God and by the use of scriptures.
9. The most bitter opposition against him was incited by the religious leaders of his day
10. He was eventually killed by those who were angry and bitter with him for his teachings and what he professed to be.

(Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Sustaining and Defending the Faith, p. 13-14)

D&C 67 and the “Folly of William McLellin”:

“After the foregoing was received [D&C 1], William E. M’Lellin, as the wisest man, in his own estimation, having more learning than sense, endeavored to write a commandment like unto one of the least of the Lord’s, but failed; it was an awful responsibility to write in the name of the Lord. The Elders and all present that witnessed this vain attempt of a man to imitate the language of Jesus Christ, renewed their faith in the fulness of the Gospel, and in the truth of the commandments and revelations which the Lord had given to the Church through my instrumentality; and the Elders signified a willingness to bear testimony of their truth to all the world.” (Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1:226.)

D&C 67:10:

“This principle ought (in its proper place) to be taught, for God hath not revealed anything to Joseph, but what He will make known unto the Twelve, and even the least Saint may know all things as fast as he is able to bear them, for the day must come when no man need say to his neighbor, Know ye the Lord; for all shall know Him (who remain) from the least to the greatest. How is this to be done? It is to be done by this sealing power, and the other Comforter spoken of, which will be manifest by revelation.” (Joseph Smith, Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.149.)