In Doction and Covenant, Sections 90 to 92, the Lord is once again instructing Joseph Smith on how to lead and guide the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Section 90 introduces the first presidency of the church, a body that had not yet been organized.

The November 1831 Revelation also gave the President authority to appoint 12 counselors to form a disciplinary court,

introducing the idea that a body of counselors

was to support the president. Section 91 details the Apocrypha, books written by members and leaders

of the early church between the end of the Old Testament and several centuries after Jesus' ministry.

Section 92 mentions a publishing house.

Together, the revelations might be seen as a three-part series,

declaring authority, declaring whether certain religious texts are authoritative, and how to print

authoritative and community-building texts. My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm the public

communication specialist at the Neely Maxwell Institute for Religious Scholarship at Brigham Young

University. My co-host is Janice Johnson, a Willis Center research associate at the Institute.

And together, we will be discussing each week's block of reading from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Come Follow Me curriculum.

We aren't here to present a lesson, but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block that we believe will help fulfill the Maxwell Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored

gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas.

Janice, what sticks out to you about Section 90?

Well, I think that we've got a lot of different things going on here. The presidency of the high priesthood,

which we would later call the first presidency, was organized on the 11th of November 1831.

Joseph was ordained the president of the high priesthood the next following January. And here,

in verse six, the keys are given to both counselors. So this is the elevation

of the first presidency to kind of what we know today. And I think that this is an important

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