143 - D&C 88 CFM - Understanding God & The Nature of Life - E33 August 11-17

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🗓️ 5 August 2025

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Welcome to Church History Matters Come Follow Me Edition where we are systematically diving into every section of the Doctrine and Covenants throughout the year 2025! In this episode Scott and Casey cover Doctrine & Covenants 88, while covering the context and content of this important history.

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0:00.0	The plan isn't just to save men and women. The plan is to save the entire ecosystem. It's to save all of God's creation. And it's not like the world we live in is something that we just abandon. It is the new earth.
0:12.4	The implications of these verses are staggering and they deserve really careful pondering and analysis. God isn't keeping people out of the celestial kingdom because he's mean.
0:23.6	God doesn't just set things up as a kind of obstacle course for us to clear to show that we can follow instructions.
0:29.5	He's literally just describing the nature of the universe and saying, yeah, this is how it works.
0:34.8	One's capacity to abide a specific sort of threshold of heavenly glory, if we could say it that
0:40.1	way, is developed by the law one is willing to obey.
0:44.7	He's emphasizing the ordered nature of the universe to people that live on a chaotic world
0:49.7	where it seems like there is no rhyme or reason to why things happen.
0:52.9	Even in the midst of our frustration and not fully understanding the things of God, is giving us a breadcrumb trail of how to get there. And you have a part to play in all of this. Hello, Scott. Casey, wow. We have a whopper before us this week, don't we? Section 88. This is one of the big ones, but it feels like after you get to Section 76,
1:12.0	you just start hitting the big ones. And there are smaller revelations sprinkled in between.
1:17.1	But man, is this one big and complex? And I'm going to say soul and mind expanding because
1:24.7	there's so many interesting things introduced in Section 88, not just
1:30.3	about the afterlife, but about the nature of life itself and how God governs the universe.
1:37.6	Like, this is just gold in my mind.
1:40.6	Just so much good stuff in here.
1:42.9	Yeah, I mean, this ranges in scope from some of the richest theology and most elaborate
1:47.3	like eschatology of any of Joseph Smith's revelations, down to some of like the most pragmatic
1:53.1	instructions.
1:53.8	For instance, like to prepare a solemn assembly, to establish a school for church elders, and even to build another place of worship.
2:04.0	They're going to call it the house of God here.
2:05.5	Later, we're going to call it the Curtland Temple.
2:08.2	This is the revelation that's going to bring that about.
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