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Jared Ludlow. This is Book of Mormon Central's. Come follow me insights. Today, Doctrine and Covenant

sections 89 through 92. And we have our friend and colleague with us today, Jared Ludlow, who is an

expert in ancient scripture with particular expertise in the

apocrypha or intertestimental literature.

So as Section 91 deals with the Apocrypha, we'll spend some time learning with Jared

what the Apocrypha is and why it might be of interest to us.

So we have lots of great things to talk about today. We'll

bring Jared back on when we get to Section 91 to learn more about the Apocrypha, but we

want to begin first with the Word of Wisdom, Section 89. A lot to talk about here.

Yeah, this particular section has such an amazing history in our church. The foundation, obviously,

being this question that was brought up of, you're in the upstairs room of the Newell-K.

Whitney store where the School of the Prophets, you've got these men coming together, 21 or 22 men on this

particular occasion. And Brigham Young wasn't there on this exact day, but he describes

the struggle at the School of the Prophets where Joseph would come into this room to talk about these lofty

things of God and building up the kingdom of God on the earth.

And he's looking at this room filled with men through a cloud of smoke, tobacco smoke that

was so thick that you could, you had a hard time seeing people. And they're all spitting their tobacco on the

floor, and Emma's having to clean that up. And there are a lot of, a lot of questions about,

is this really how we should act when we're trying to build up the kingdom of God?

Yeah, is this helping us be prepared to receive revelation? And I also find it instructive

that the revelation is driven by questions, particularly Emma, like, is this the way it needs

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