Three months after receiving Doction and Covenants 84, Joseph Smith and nine other high priests prayed for revelation.

Each man present was asked to pray that God would reveal His will to us,

concerning the upbuilding of Zion, and for the benefit of the saints, and for the duty of the elders.

They received the revelation in two parts, most of it in late December 1832, and the remainder in June 1833.

Readers can find a lot to engage with in Section 88.

The Lord maps out parts of the universe's grandeur and expanse,

and speaks to the immediate, the individual.

Historian Richard Bushman summarized Section 88 like this in his biography of Joseph Smith.

Quote, it runs from the cosmological to the practical.

From a description of angels blowing their trumpets,

to instructions for starting a school,

yet the pieces blend together into a cohesive compound of cosmology and eschatology,

united by the attempt to link the quotidian world of the now to the world beyond.

The revelation offers sketches of the Order of Heaven, rises the three degrees of glory,

delivers a discourse on divine law, offers a summary of the meta history of the end times,

and then brings it all to bear on what the saints should do now.

The Lord called upon Joseph Smith to establish a school of the prophets, but did not set a teacher.

The students were meant to instruct one another out of the best books.

Everyone who heard the gospel message was instructed to warn their neighbor.

Salvation was marked as individual, but the establishment of Zion in the building of the kingdom of God were set as community projects.

No person is an island, and no one can be saved outside of community.

My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public communications specialist at the Neil A. Maxwell

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