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Revelation, 27–28 December 1832, Extract, Unidentified Scribe Copy [D&C 88:1–51]

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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, 27–28 Dec. 1832]. Extract copied [not after July 1833]; unidentified handwriting; notations in unidentified handwriting; three pages; Revelations Collection, CHL. Includes archival marking.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 27–28 Dec. 1832 [D&C 88:1–126].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Revelation, 27–28 December 1832 [D&C 88:1–126]

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16 ninth of April
the Ollive leaf
verily thus saith the lord unto you, who have assembled yourselves together to receive his will concerning you. behold this is pleasing unto you lord, and the
angels

Being who acts as a minister and messenger between heaven and earth. JS taught that angels were individuals who “belonged to this earth”; those who had already lived on earth were often resurrected beings. In addition to giving instruction, direction, and...

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rejoice over you. the alms of your prayers have come up into the ears of the lord of sabeoth. and are recorded in the book of the names of the sanctified even they of the
celestial world

Highest kingdom of glory in the afterlife; symbolically represented by the sun. According to a vision dated 16 February 1832, inheritors of the celestial kingdom “are they who received the testimony of Jesus, & believed on his name, & were baptized,” “receive...

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. wherefore i now send upon you another comforter, even upon my friends, that it may abide in your hearts. even the holy spirrit of prommice [promise]; which other comforter is the same that i prommissed unto my dissiples, as, is recorded in the testimony of John. this comforter is the prommice which i gave unto you of eternal life, even the glory of the celestial kingdom: which glory is that of the
church of the church first born

A term describing those who receive the fullness and glory of God the Father in the afterlife. According to an 1832 revelation, those who belong to the church of the firstborn dwell in the Father’s presence, become like him, and receive “all things” from ...

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even of god the holiest of all through Jesus christ his Son: he that assended up on high as also he decended below All things, in that he comprehendeth all things that he might be in all, and through all things, the light of truth, wich truth shineth this is the light of christ As also he is in the Sun and the light of the sun— and the power there of by which it was made. As also he is in the moon and is the light of the moon, and the power there of by which it was made, As also the light of the stars. and the power thereof by which they were made Am the earth also and the power thereof; even the earth upon which you stand, And the light which now shineth which giveth you light, is through him which enlighteneth your understandings, which light procedeth forth from the presence of god, to fill the immencity of space. the light which is in all things, which giveth life to all things; which is the law by which all things are governed: even the power of god, who sitteth upon his throne, who is in the bosom of eternity who is in the midst of all things. now verily i say unto, that through the redemption which is made for you— is brought to pass the resurection from the dead. And the spirrit and the body is the
soul

The spirit, or the combination of spirit and body, whether mortal or immortal. The Book of Mormon taught that the living soul comprised a body and a spirit and that after death resurrection would unite spirits with bodies. An 1832 revelation confirmed previous...

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of man— And the resurrection from the dead is the redemption of the soul, and the redemption of the soul is through him who quickeneth all things, in whose bosom it is decreed that the poor and the meek of the earth shall
inherit

Generally referred to land promised by or received from God for the church and its members. A January 1831 revelation promised church members a land of inheritance. In March and May 1831, JS dictated revelations commanding members “to purchase lands for an...

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it. therefore it must needs be sanctified from all unrighteousness, that it may be preparred for the celestial glory, for after it hath filled the measure of its creation it shall be crowned with glory even with the pressence of god the father, that bodies who are of the celestial kingdom may posses it [p. [1]]
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