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Vision, 16 February 1832, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 76]

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“The Vision,” [
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, 16 Feb. 1832]. Version copied [ca. Apr. 1832] in Gilbert, Notebook, pp. [63]–[75]; handwriting of
Sidney Gilbert

28 Dec. 1789–29 June 1834. Merchant. Born at New Haven, New Haven Co., Connecticut. Son of Eli Gilbert and Lydia Hemingway. Moved to Huntington, Fairfield Co., Connecticut; to Monroe, Monroe Co., Michigan Territory, by Sept. 1818; to Painesville, Geauga Co...

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; Revelations Collection, CHL. For more complete source information, see the source note for Revelation, 27 Feb. 1833 [D&C 89].

Historical Introduction

See Historical Introduction to Vision, 16 Feb. 1832 [D&C 76].
Asterisk (*) denotes a "featured" version, which includes an introduction and annotation. *Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76]

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or things present or things to come, all are theirs & they are Christs & Christ is Gods, & they shall overcome all things, wherefore let no man glory in man but rather let him glory in God who shall subdue all things under his feet. There shall dwell in the presence of God & his Christ for ever & ever. These are they whom he shall bring with him, when he shall come in the clouds of Heaven to reign in the earth over his people. These are they who shall have part in the first resurrection. These are they who shall come forth in the resurrection of the just. These are they who are come unto Mount
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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& unto the City of the living God the heavenly place, the holiest of all. These are they who have come to an innumerable company of
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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, to the general assembly & church of Enoch & of the first born. These are they whose names are written in heaven where God & Christ is the Judge of all. These are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus the mediator of the new
covenant

A binding agreement between two parties, particularly between God and man. The term covenant was often associated with “commandments,” referring to revelation texts. The gospel as preached by JS—including the need for faith, repentance, baptism, and reception...

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who wrought out this perfect atonement, through the sheding of his own blood. These are they whose bodies are
celestial

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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, whose glory in that of the Son, even of God the highest of all, which glory the sun of the firmament is written of, as being typical.— And again we saw the
Terrestrial world

One of three kingdoms, or degrees, of glory in the afterlife; symbolically represented by the moon. According to JS and Sidney Rigdon’s account of a 16 February 1832 vision, those who inherit the terrestrial kingdom are those who “received not the testimony...

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