Kirtland

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Kirtland

• www.kevinhinckley.com

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Nursery Leadersafter church
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Jeff BrysonHelping Big Lou
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Look, its the Sunbeams!
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Deacons Quorum After Church
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Nursury Kids- during church
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Jeff Bryson Again,Blending in at the singles
dance
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8 year old boyafter church
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Priests-at the Stake dance
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Awe, grandkids.
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Jackson County, 1833

• Summer 1833 School of the Elders was
  held
• July 1833 Secret constitution
  distributed by Jackson County citizens
• 20 July 1833 Printing house destroyed
• 23 July 1833 Six elders offered their lives for
  the safety of the Saints
• 31 Oct. 1833 Whitmer settlement attacked by mobs
• 4 Nov. 1833 Became known as bloody day of
  conflict
• Nov.Dec. 1833 Saints expelled from Jackson
  County

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Six Weeks Prior, June 1st, 1833

• Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you whom I love,
  and whom I love I also chasten that their sins
  may be forgiven, for with the chastisement I
  prepare a way for their deliverance in all things
  out of temptation, and I have loved you
• Wherefore, ye must needs be chastened and stand
  rebuked before my face
• 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
• 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

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The purpose?

• DC 958
• 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

Question So what endowment is the
lord Referring to, to be received in the Kirtland
temple?
Question When and where was the Temple Endowment
Received?
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One EndowmentDedicatory Prayer

• And we ask thee, Holy Father,
  that thy servants may go forth
  from this house armed with
  thy power, and that thy name may be
  upon them, and thy glory be round about them, and
  thine angels have charge over them
• And from this place they may bear exceedingly
  great and glorious tidings, in truth, unto the
  ends of the earth, that they may know that this
  is thy work, and that thou hast put forth thy
  hand, to fulfil that which thou hast spoken by
  the mouths of the prophets, concerning the last
  days.

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Elder Oaks

• The Prophet Joseph Smith reminded us
  that "God dwells in eternity, and does not
  view things as we do." 1 That insight helps
  us understand why the Lord would refer to
  his great latter-day work as bringing to pass
  my act, my strange act, and performing my work,
  my strange work.
• It also helps us understand what the Lord said
  about the building of Zion "Zion cannot be built
  up unless it is by the principles of the law of
  the celestial kingdom otherwise I cannot receive
  her unto myself. The Lords Way, Introduction

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Second Endowing at Kirtland, Section 110

• We saw the Lord standing upon the breastwork of
  the pulpit... his voice was as the sound of the
  rushing of great waters, even the voice of
  Jehovah, saying
• Yea the hearts of thousands and tens of thousands
  shall greatly rejoice in consequence of the
  blessings which shall be poured out, and the
  endowment with which my servants have been
  endowed in this house.
• and this is the beginning of the blessing which
  shall be poured out upon the heads of my people.
• After this vision closed, the heavens were again
  opened unto us and Moses appeared before us, and
  committed unto us the keys of the gathering of
  Israel
• After this, Elias appeared, and committed the
  dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying
  that in us and our seed all generations after us
  should be blessed.
• After this vision had closed, another great and
  glorious vision burst upon us for Elijah the
  prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting
  death, stood before us
• To turn the hearts of the fathers to the
  children, and the children to the fathers, lest
  the whole earth be smitten with a curse

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Hearts

• In answer to the question, "How shall
  God come to the rescue of this generation?"
  the Prophet responded, "He will send Elijah
  the prophet . . . who shall reveal
  the covenants to seal the hearts of the
  fathers to the children, and the children to
  the fathers.
• "The first thing you do, go and seal on earth
  your sons and your daughters unto yourself." By
  so doing, families "may be sealed and saved, that
  they may be prepared against the day that the
  destroying angel goes forth.
• Robert L. Millet, Kent P. Jackson, Studies
  in Scripture, Vol. 1 The Doctrine and
  Covenants (Salt Lake City Deseret Book Co.,
  1989)

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Question,

• How does being born under the covenant assist
  children that they may be prepared against the
  day that the destroying angel goes forth?