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Revelation, 24 February 1834, as Recorded in Phelps, Diary and Notebook [D&C 103]

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Revelation,
Kirtland Township

Located ten miles south of Lake Erie. Settled by 1811. Organized by 1818. Latter-day Saint missionaries visited township, early Nov. 1830; many residents joined Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Population in 1830 about 55 Latter-day Saints and...

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, Geauga Co., OH, [24 Feb. 1834]. Version copied [ca. 1835] in Phelps, Diary and Notebook, pp. 17–30; handwriting of
William W. Phelps

17 Feb. 1792–7 Mar. 1872. Writer, teacher, printer, newspaper editor, publisher, postmaster, lawyer. Born at Hanover, Morris Co., New Jersey. Son of Enon Phelps and Mehitabel Goldsmith. Moved to Homer, Cortland Co., New York, 1800. Married Sally Waterman,...

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; CHL.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 24 Feb. 1834 [D&C 103].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Revelation, 24 February 1834 [D&C 103]

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let all the
churches

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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send up wise men with their monies and purchased lands, even as I have commanded them. And inasmuch as mine enemies come against you to drive you from my goodly land which I have
consecrated

The dedicating of money, lands, goods, or one’s own life for sacred purposes. Both the New Testament and Book of Mormon referred to some groups having “all things common” economically; the Book of Mormon also referred to individuals who consecrated or dedicated...

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to be the land of
Zion

A specific location in Missouri; also a literal or figurative gathering of believers in Jesus Christ, characterized by adherence to ideals of harmony, equality, and purity. In JS’s earliest revelations “the cause of Zion” was used to broadly describe the ...

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: even from your own lands, after their testemonies which ye have brought before me against them: ye shall curse them; and whomsoever ye will curse, I will curse, and ye shall avenge me of my enemies; and my presence shall be with you, even in avenging me of mine enemies [p. 25]
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