The Lord

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The Lords Preface

• Doctrine and Covenants Section 1

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Is winter over?
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Wilford Woodruff

• I consider that the Doctrine and
  Covenants, our testament
• it contains a code of the most solemn, the most
  godlike proclamations ever made to the human
  family (J.D., Vol. 22, p. 147).

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Interesting Name

• DOCTRINE

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November 1,2 1831
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DC 67

• 4 And now I, the Lord, give unto you a testimony
  of the truth of these commandments which are
  lying before you.
• 5 Your eyes have been upon my servant Joseph
  Smith, Jun., and his language you have known, and
  his imperfections you have known and you have
  sought in your hearts knowledge that you might
  express beyond his language this you also know.
• 6 Now, seek ye out of the Book of Commandments,
  even the least that is among them, and appoint
  him that is the most wise among you
• 7 Or, if there be any among you that shall make
  one like unto it, then ye are justified in saying
  that ye do not know that they are true
• 8 But if ye cannot make one like unto it, ye are
  under condemnation if ye do not bear record that
  they are true.
• 9 For ye know that there is no unrighteousness in
  them, and that which is righteous cometh down
  from above, from the Father of lights.

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Jeffrey Holland

• Whatever else it is, the Doctrine and
  Covenants is a revelatory document,
  revelations abounding, a promise of
  prophetic utterance
• And why are these revelations given? To
  tear down the graven images of our
  time, to re-enthrone God as the Father to his
  children, reestablish those covenants linking
  heaven and earth
• To that end the dispensation and its doctrines
  and these compilations are dedicated. To that end
  the preface, the first section, is committed.
  Surely it is one of the great prefaces in the
  possession of mankind.

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Purpose of these commandments

• DC 1 17 Wherefore, I the Lord, knowing the
  calamity which should come upon the inhabitants
  of the earth, called upon my servant Joseph
  Smith, Jun., and spake unto him from heaven, and
  gave him commandments
• 18 And also gave commandments to others, that
  they should proclaim these things unto the world
  and all this that it might be fulfilled, which
  was written by the prophets
• 19 The weak things of the world shall come
  forth and break down the mighty and strong ones,
  that man should not counsel his fellow man,
  neither trust in the arm of flesh
• 20 But that every man might speak in the name
  of God the Lord, even the Savior of the world
• 21 That faith also might increase in the earth
• 22 That mine everlasting covenant might be
  established
• 23 That the fulness of my gospel might be
  proclaimed by the weak and the simple unto the
  ends of the world, and before kings and rulers.
• 24 Behold, I am God and have spoken it these
  commandments are of me

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The Lords Warning

• DC 136
• And also the Lord shall have power over his
  saints, and shall reign in their midst, and shall
  come down in judgment upon Idumea, or the world.

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Warning?
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Flavius Josephus

• AFTER the death of Isaac, his sons divided their
  habitations respectively Esau departed from the
  city of Hebron, and left it to his brother, and
  dwelt in Seir, and ruled over Idumea.
• He called the country by that name from himself,
  for he was named Adom which appellation he got
  on the following occasion
• One day returning from the toil of hunting very
  hungry, (it was when he was a child in age,) he
  lighted on his brother when he was getting ready
  lentile-pottage for his dinner, which was of a
  very red color on which account he the more
  earnestly longed for it, and desired him to give
  him some of it to eat and he resigned up to
  him his birthright
• Whence it came, that, on account of the redness
  of this pottage, he was, in way of jest, by his
  contemporaries, called Adom, for the Hebrews call
  what is red Adom and this was the name given to
  the country but the Greeks gave it a more
  agreeable pronunciation, and named it Idumea.

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Second part

• DOCTRINE
• AND
• COVENANTS

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Question

• What Covenants do we find in the DC we dont
  find anywhere else?