A lot of times when we get caught up in the middle of difficulty, the Lord sometimes pulls us back and says, look at the big picture.

Keep your eye on the prize. Like the millennial day will come. All this will be sorted out. Like it's going to end well, even in the midst of your affliction.

There will come a time when I will let you know all things. There will be no uncertainty. Hang in there. There's good things to come. Well, Scott, we are back,

and we've got to cover one of the most extraordinary revelations in the Doctrine Covenants,

certainly one that has a lot of material to digest and to sort through Section 101. Yes,

and this is part three. Casey, the first time we've done

three parts in a Come Follow Me week because section 98, all on its own had so much. I think we

went over an hour just on that one. Our episode two, if you haven't caught that, that's section 99 and

100. That took its own, I don't know, hour or so. And so now here we are with

section 101. We'll see how long this one takes us. But there's so much here. So much this week to

digest, Casey, that we just thought, man, we've got to break it up into three parts and try to

not short any of it. Just give it all its due. So here we go.

For full context, we should say, go back to first episode this week, Section 98, where we really did a rich dive into the conflict between the Missourians and Latter-day Saints who were settling there.

Their grievances against the Latter-day Saints, etc. I think they left four grievances publicly on record as to why they hated the Latter-day Saints so much and wanted them out of Jackson County. So if you want to deep dive and all of that, go check out the first episode of this week's. Come follow me. But Casey, drop us into more immediate context for Section 101 then in the midst of all of that, like, what's happening here that brings about this revelation.

The doctrine in governance 101 is received on the 16th of December 1833.

And to summarize, it's the Lord's response to Joseph Smith's urgent inquiries regarding the November 1833 expulsion of church

members from their homes and their lands in Jackson County, Missouri. So what we talked about

before, the persecutions in the summer of 1833 were just a precursor to the fall when the

Missourians just flat out forced the saints to leave their homes. So for context,

like you said, we need to upload all the backstory and context of Section 98 that we just went

through and recall that Section 98 is received on the 6th of August 1833. Then fast forward only

two weeks after that and let's pick up the story from there. So on August 18th. Then fast forward only two weeks after that, and let's pick up the story from there.

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