I'm Taylor.

And I'm Tyler.

And I'm Brent Topp.

We've invited our friend Brent Top today because he has spent 45 years as a religious

educator.

So as we spend time today and come follow me insights, Doctrine and Covenant Section 29,

we invite you to open the scriptures with us and listen to the Word of God.

Thank you for being here, Brent.

This is a real privilege.

Brent spent years teaching seminary and then came to BYU,

and he's been in the Department of Church History and Doctrine.

He's been a dean in our college of religious education.

And he knows a lot about the doctrine and

covenants. And we felt like it would be really a blessing to you if he came in and helped

us out with Section 29 because this is the first time in our unfolding restoration of the gospel, where we really

grapple with and try to tackle the issue of end times and millennium and second coming kinds

of questions. So, Brent, question for you is, what's going on? It's a couple of days

before their conference in September of 1830. What's happening here that if we understand that

history will help us unfold, Section 29? I think with regards to any revelation in the doctrine covenants, we need to understand that

there are always circumstances going on around it. And to me, the doctrine covenants is

a challenging volume of scripture because it's not like a storyline.

I mean, how many times when I picked up the Saints volume, I loved to read the Saints

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