Now this is a prophecy that has become so misinterpreted.

Yeah, this sounds amazing, right?

Like, it's definitely cinematic.

I really find it fascinating because of how the Lord talks about apostasy and restoration,

kind of different than our typical cultural narrative about this case.

It's Jesus Christ himself, testifying that there was an apostasy

and then giving some explanations as to what he means by that,

what the apostasy was.

Why would God allow this to happen?

We usually simplify the apostasy by saying all the apostles were killed

and the priesthood was taken from the earth and the church was gone.

But this is leaving little hints that, no, it wasn't. The lineage of the priesthood was still here.

His work never paused during what we call the apostasy. It continued in stride just in some different ways

than we're used to talking about. It gets such a good insight into

the Lord's character to understand that he never abandoned his people ever. Interesting.

Interesting stuff there. Hello, Casey. Hello, Scott. Good to see you. Good to see you. We are

back. And this week we're covering sections 85 through 87 we got an excerpt from a letter

joseph Smith translation insight about the parable of the wheat and the tears which is super insightful

and third we have a prophecy maybe one of the clearest prophecies ever made by joseph Smith

so an exciting week this week to study. Yeah. And even though each one of

these sections is relatively short, there's a lot to discuss. So I think the way we're going to

break it down is probably do section 85 and section 86 together. And then section 87 is a whole

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