Let's build something so that people can come and just get to know us. And if they want to convert,

great. Let them come and contemplate the glories of Zion. But if they don't, at least they'll know us.

And they'll know that we're not ill-intentioned, that we're not malevolent, that we're not doing secret

things to try to destroy the world, that we're not satanic. And it does sort of work.

This is it. This is the whole package. This is the beginning of something that's going to be

really important in the church. In fact, it's at the heart of everything we do today. Yeah,

this is like the climax of the entire restoration. Hello, Casey. Hello, Scott. We're starting

a whole new, I guess, epoch in church history here.

Section 124 is the start of a new era in church history.

And it might be the most controversial, but maybe the most interesting era in the history of the church.

I mean, they're all controversial and they're all interesting.

But this one has some big things happening in it.

Welcome to Navu. Yes. Things start happening really fast during the last five years of

Joseph Smith's life. And section 124 kind of kicks that off. And this, by the way, section 124 is

the longest revelation in the doctrine and covenants. Welcome, brothers and sisters. We made it here in Navu.

And Casey, we don't have a lot of revelations in the period of Navu, but boy, does the length of this one in some ways make up for that.

Yeah, only 10 sections roughly given in the Navu period. They're really important stuff, though.

And, you know, as somebody that studies restoration movements,

I've talked about this before, but I work with a lot of churches that trace themselves back to

Joseph Smith. We are the Navu church. Like, that is what some of these other churches literally

call us, because it seems like a lot of churches like Community of Christ and others kind of cut the

line off at Navu because of some of the more difficult things to accept here, things like plural marriage and eternal marriage and temple work and work for the dead. I just don't know very many other restoration churches that do those things. There's some that do work for the dead, but it's real, real, real rare. And we do.

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