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Revelation, 29 October 1831, as Recorded in McLellin, Journal [D&C 66]

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Revelation,
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, 29 Oct. 1831. Version copied [ca. 29 Oct. 1831] in William E. McLellin, Journal, 21–22; handwriting of
William E. McLellin

18 Jan. 1806–14 Mar. 1883. Schoolteacher, physician, publisher. Born at Smith Co., Tennessee. Son of Charles McLellin and Sarah (a Cherokee Indian). Married first Cynthia Ann, 30 July 1829. Wife died, by summer 1831. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of...

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; William E. McLellin, Papers, CHL.

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Revelation, 29 Oct. 1831 [D&C 66].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Revelation, 29 October 1831 [D&C 66]

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Behold thus saith the Lord unto you my servant
Wm. [E. McLellin]

18 Jan. 1806–14 Mar. 1883. Schoolteacher, physician, publisher. Born at Smith Co., Tennessee. Son of Charles McLellin and Sarah (a Cherokee Indian). Married first Cynthia Ann, 30 July 1829. Wife died, by summer 1831. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of...

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blessed are you, in as much as you have turned away from your iniquities and have received my truths, saith the Lord, your Redeemer, the Saviour of the world; even of as many as believe on my name. Verily I say unto you, blessed are you for receiving mine
everlasting Covenant

Generally referred to the “fulness of the gospel”—the sum total of the church’s message, geared toward establishing God’s covenant people on the earth; also used to describe individual elements of the gospel, including marriage. According to JS, the everlasting...

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, even the fulness of my Gospel sint forth unto the children of men, that they might have life, and be made partakers of the glories which are to be revealed in the last days as it was written by the Prophets &
Apostles

A title indicating one sent forth to preach; later designated as a specific ecclesiastical and priesthood office. By 1830, JS and Oliver Cowdery were designated as apostles. The “Articles and Covenants” of the church explained that an “apostle is an elder...

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in days of old. Verily I say unto you my servant
William

18 Jan. 1806–14 Mar. 1883. Schoolteacher, physician, publisher. Born at Smith Co., Tennessee. Son of Charles McLellin and Sarah (a Cherokee Indian). Married first Cynthia Ann, 30 July 1829. Wife died, by summer 1831. Baptized into Church of Jesus Christ of...

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that you are clean but not all. Repent therefore of those things which are not pleasing in my sight Saith the Lord; for the Lord will show them unto you. And now, verily I the Lord will show unto you what I will concerning you: or what is my will concerning you. Behold verily I say unto you that it is my will that you should proclaim my Gospel from land to land, and from city to city: yea in those regions round about where it hath not been proclaimed— Tarry not many days in this place. Go not up unto the Land of
Zion

JS revelation, dated 20 July 1831, designated Missouri as “land of Zion” for gathering of Saints and place where “City of Zion” was to be built, with Independence area as “center place” of Zion. Latter-day Saint settlements elsewhere, such as in Kirtland,...

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as yet. But in as much as you can send, Send. Otherwise think not of thy property— [p. 21]
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