It is a new day and a new arrangement, and the Lord has now given the revelation that sheds light out into the world on this subject. It doesn’t make a particle of difference what anybody ever said about the … matter before the first day of June of this year, 1978. We have now had added a new flood of intelligence and light on this particular subject, and it erases all the darkness and all the views and all the thoughts of the past. We get our truth and our light line upon line and precept upon precept. We spoke with a limited understanding and without the light and knowledge that now has come into the world. Cannon or whomsoever has said in days past that is contrary to the present revelation. Forget everything that I have said, or what President Brigham Young or President George Q. I have said the same things, and people write me letters and say, “You said such and such, and how is it now that we do such and such?” And all I can say to that is that it is time disbelieving people repented and got in line and believed in a living, modern prophet. We have seen what the words say and have said to ourselves, “Yes, it says that, but we must read out of it the taking of the gospel and the blessings of the temple to, because they are denied certain things.” There are statements in our literature by the early Brethren which we have interpreted to mean that the would not receive the priesthood in mortality. We have read these passages and their associated passages for many years. That means, as you know, that people from all nations will have the blessings of the house of the Lord before the Second Coming. And we have revelations which recite that when the Lord comes he will find those who speak every tongue and are members of every nation and kindred, who will be kings and priests, who will live and reign on earth with him a thousand years.
We have revelations that tell us that the gospel is to go to every nation, kindred, tongue, and people before the Second Coming of the Son of Man. My version would probably look something like this:ĮXCEPRTS FROM THREE STATEMENTS REGARDING THE PRIESTHOOD REVELATION
Admittedly, the addition of an introduction to the section in 2013 provides the key information, but I enjoy playing with hypotheticals for updates to the scriptures, so what would I include if I were to prepare the additions for the declaration? And, while I’m sharing in the post, I’d be interested in hearing folks’ thoughts about what they would or would not include and their thoughts about my selections as well. At one point, I even created my own insert in my scriptures to fill that function. I’ve often mused on the idea of what would an analogous set of supplementary quotes look like for Official Declaration 2. Official Declaration 1 has some supplementary materials included in the Doctrine and Covenants in the form of three excerpts from different addresses where he explained the reasoning for the change.
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