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Revelation, 25 December 1832, as Recorded in Phelps, Diary and Notebook [D&C 87]

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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], 25 Dec. 1832. Version copied [ca. 1835] in Phelps, Diary and Notebook, pp. 1–3 (second numbering); 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.

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See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 25 Dec. 1832 [D&C 87].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Revelation, 25 December 1832 [D&C 87]

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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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Given Decm 25— 1832.
Verily thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of south Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls: and the days will come, that war will be poured out upon all nations begining at this place; for behold the southern states shall be divided against the northern states; and the southern states will call on other nations, even the nation of Great britian as it is called, and they shall [p. 1]
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Revelation, 25 December 1832, as Recorded in Phelps, Diary and Notebook [D&C 87]
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