Kirtland Temple Part 1

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Kirtland TemplePart 1

• Khinckley1_at_yahoo.com

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Elder Oaks

• The payment of tithing is a test of priorities

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DC 95June, 1833

• 1 Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you whom I
  love, ye must needs be chastened and stand
  rebuked before my face
• 3 For ye have sinned against me a very grievous
  sin, in that ye have not considered the great
  commandment in all things, that I have given unto
  you concerning the building of mine house
• 4 For the preparation wherewith I design to
  prepare mine apostles to prune my vineyard for
  the last time, that I may bring to pass my
  strange act, that I may pour out my Spirit upon
  all flesh
• 8 Yea, verily I say unto you, I gave unto you a
  commandment that you should build a house, in the
  which house I design to endow those whom I have
  chosen with power from on high

Isaiah 2821 For the LORD shall rise up as in
mount Perazim that he may do his work, his
strange work and bring to pass his act, his
strange act.
strange foreigner As in Estranged
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Fredrick G. Williams

• We went upon our knees, called on the Lord, and
  the Building appeared within viewing distance I
  being the first to discover it. Then all of us
  viewed it together. After we had taken a good
  look at the exterior, the building seemed to come
  right over us, and the Makeup of this Hall seemed
  to coincide with what I there saw to a minutia."

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Eliza R. Snow

• At that time . . . the Saints were few in number,
  and most of them very poor and, had it not been
  for the assurance that God had spoken an attempt
  towards building that Temple, under the then
  existing circumstances, would have been, by all
  concerned, pronounced preposterous."

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Brigham Young

• The Saints were too few in numbers, too weak in
  faith, and too poor in purse, to attempt such a
  mighty enterprise.
• But by means of all these stimulants, a mere
  handful of men, living on air, and a little
  hominy and milk
• the great Prophet Joseph, in the stone quarry,
  quarrying rock with his own hands and the few
  then in the Church, following his example of
  obedience and diligence wherever most needed
  with laborers on the walls,
• holding the sword in one hand to protect
  themselves from the mob, while they placed the
  stone and moved the trowel with the other."

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Milton Backman

• Although members in Kirtland possessed little
  money, they contributed what they could for the
  building of the temple. One evening while Joseph
  Smith and Oliver Cowdery were contemplating their
  financial problems, Joseph prophesied that "in a
  short time the Lord would arrange His providences
  in a merciful manner" and send them assistance so
  that they might be delivered from debt. The two
  leaders covenanted that if the Lord would prosper
  them in their business and help them pay their
  debts, they would give one tenth of their
  increase to the poor of the Church (HC 2175)

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San Antonio Temple
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Later, in Far West

• DC 119
• 1 Verily, thus saith the Lord, I require all
  their surplus property to be put into the hands
  of the bishop of my church in Zion,
• 2 For the building of mine house, and for the
  laying of the foundation of Zion and for the
  priesthood, and for the debts of the Presidency
  of my Church.
• 3 And this shall be the beginning of the tithing
  of my people.
• 4 And after that, those who have thus been tithed
  shall pay one-tenth of all their interest
  increase annually and this shall be a standing
  law unto them forever, for my holy priesthood,
  saith the Lord.
• 5 Verily I say unto you, it shall come to pass
  that all those who gather unto the land of Zion
  shall be tithed of their surplus properties, and
  shall observe this law, or they shall not be
  found worthy to abide among you.
• 6 And I say unto you, if my people observe not
  this law, to keep it holy, and by this law
  sanctify the land of Zion unto me, that my
  statutes and my judgments may be kept thereon,
  that it may be most holy, behold, verily I say
  unto you, it shall not be a land of Zion unto you.