So many members of the church in so many different settings say something like Satan controls the waters.

Does this mean that some divinely authorized destructive force has been let loose upon the Missouri River?

We don't know based on this context if the destroyer is a servant of Satan or a servant of God.

But here's a few things to just keep in mind.

Hi, Scott. How are you? Good, man. We get to dive into the return journey from Missouri this week.

Section 60 through 63. This is going to be a fun one. We've spent the last couple sections talking about

the command to go to Zion. That was section 52, up to section 57.

What they did when they got to Zion, that was 58 and 59.

And now the voyage home, section 60 to 63.

Yeah, so sections like 60, 61, and 62 are literally about the journey home where Joseph Smith and other church elders

are going back to Ohio after having spent several weeks in Missouri in the summer of 1831.

So section 60 initiates their return home.

Section 61 addresses some trouble upon the waters issue they encountered by they were

traveling down the

Missouri River. And section 62 is a revelation received as a result of a serendipitous meeting of

elders traveling to and from Zion who happened to intersect. And we get a very short but

powerful little section in section 62. And then section 63 is the revelation that Joseph

received shortly after he returned home from

Missouri to Ohio about getting things going back in Ohio at that time.

So lots of interesting sections here on that return journey and then one once he arrives home.

With that is kind of a big broad overview.

Casey, take us into Section 60.

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