In 1831, the Lord promised the New York Saints that if they would gather together with church members in Ohio,

they would there, quote, be endowed with power from on

high. Trusting this promise most of them moved to Ohio in full expectation of

receiving this endowment or gift of power from on high.

But what exactly was this endowment?

What power was given from on high?

Was it one thing or several things?

And how was this gift or gifts of power received in the Kirtland Temple

so crucial in the unfolding story of the development of Latter-day Saint Temple

worship in general and to our personal

temple experience today. In today's episode of Church History Matters, we dig

into the surprising yet satisfying answers to these important questions.

I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths.

And today Casey and I dive into our second episode in this series about the development of

Latter-day Saint Temple Worship. Now let's get into it.

Hello Scott. Hi Casey. We're back. We are back. Talking temples. Talking temples.

Talking the origins of temple worship, temple liturgy. We are a temple

building people and that's been the case from the very beginning as we're finding out.

And so this is fun.

Yeah, and I gotta tell you, I don't know how long this series is gonna be how many episodes,

because I keep thinking, got to do a whole episode on this we got to do a whole episode on this

but it's good stuff like I'm loving it I'm learning a ton and I hope you guys are enjoying it too so should we just dive in let's dive in yeah so this is episode two of who knows how many in this series we'll just see we'll just keep going and probably still feel like we haven't

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