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Answers to Questions, between circa 4 and circa 20 March 1832, as Recorded in Richards, Notebook [D&C 77]

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Hiram Township

Area settled by immigrants from Pennsylvania and New England, ca. 1802. Located in northeastern Ohio about twenty-five miles southeast of Kirtland. Population in 1830 about 500. Population in 1840 about 1,100. JS lived in township at home of John and Alice...

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, Portage Co., OH, ca. Mar. 1832]. Version copied between [ca. 19 Nov. 1842 and ca. 19 May 1846] in Samuel W. Richards, Notebook, ca. 1844–1845, pp. [27]–[36]; handwriting of Samuel W. Richards; Samuel W. Richards, Papers, CHL.

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the earth. neither the sea. nor the trees. untill we have
sealed

To confirm or solemnize. In the early 1830s, revelations often adopted biblical usage of the term seal; for example, “sealed up the testimony” referred to proselytizing and testifying of the gospel as a warning of the approaching end time. JS explained in...

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the servants of God in their foreheads. & if you will receive it this is Elias which was to come to
gather

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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together the tribes of Israel and restore all things.
9th. What time are these things spoken of to be accomplished?
A They are to be accomplished in the 6.000th year on the opening of the 6th seal.
10th. What &c— by sealing the 144,000 out of all the tribes of Israel. 12,000, out of each tribe [p. [32]]
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Answers to Questions, between circa 4 and circa 20 March 1832, as Recorded in Richards, Notebook [D&C 77]
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