Something really important is going to happen here.

This could be the place where people first learned about the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ.

The Latter-day Saints interpret Daniel 7, different than any other Christian than I've ever seen.

It's a site of prophecy and where prophecy will be fulfilled.

Look at the sources, look at the evidence, and then make your decisions.

Hello, Casey.

Hi, Scott. We've got six amazing sections

of the doctrine and covenants to cover this week. We're thinking we'll break it up, 115 to 117,

episode 1, 118 to 120. Catch that on the next episode. They'll come out this week as well.

These are all revelations received in Far West with one exception, 116, which was received in Adam and Diomond. These are all later additions to the Doctrine Covenants, if I'm remembering correctly. This is Brigham Young and Orson Pratt in 1876, adding these sections in. And they're all relatively short, but some of them are among the most consequential revelations in the entire doctrine in covenant.

It's like you got the name of the church, the return of the ancient of days, the law of tithing.

There's just a lot of big stuff going on here that still affects us in the church today.

Yeah, hugely consequential.

So let's get into it.

Section 115.

What's going on here, Casey? Let's drop our first C here,

the context with section 115. So like we mentioned last time, the Far West revelations

really start in Section 113 and Section 114. but this is kind of the main one that talks about

Far West itself. And just to give you the background here, you'll remember the saints were

evicted from Jackson County in 1833, and most of them wind up as living as refugees in Clay County

or in the surrounding areas. Then on August 8, 1836, church leaders purchased a site in Caldwell County to be the surrounding areas. Then on August 8th, 1836, church leaders purchased a site

in Caldwell County to be the new home for the Latter-day Saints in Missouri. And this site eventually

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