The Lord addresses commandments when people aren't keeping them.

And that's caused a lot of problems today and it seems like anciently as well.

One of the ways you can tell who God's covenant people are is those who are keeping the Sabbath

day.

The Sabbath is made for man, not man for the Sabbath.

It's a day to help us become unspotted from the world, not a day for us to judge our neighbors

more harshly. Use wisdom,

use judgment. Hello, Casey. Hello, Scott. Here we are, part two, part two of section 58 and 59,

which we're going to use to address section 59 of the doctrine conference. So much good material in

here, an introduction of a brand new law that the church has not yet been

commanded to live. Actually, a couple, but one biggie. So some exciting things to dive into here.

So drop us, Casey, into the context of what's going on in Section 59. Help us situate this

historically.

Section 58 is kind of addressed to the Vanguard company, the first arrivals in Zion.

But Section 59 is addressed to the people that start to come, the really first people that are going to settle in Zion.

And that chiefly concerns the Colesville branch, which the heart of the Colesville branch is the Knight family. So during the first week of August 1831, the members of this

branch start to arrive in and around independence. And Polly Knight, who's the matrix, she's the

mother of the Knight family, is deeply involved in the context here. She's sick the entire journey to

Missouri. In fact, Newell Knight, who's kind of leading the Colesville branch during the journey,

was so concerned over his mother's health that he purchases lumber while they're traveling

just in case he needs to make a coffin for her during the journey. But he also notes, and this is from his own record, he said,

But the Lord gave her the desire of her heart, for she lived to stand upon that land, meaning Missouri.

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