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Today, Doctrine and Covenants, sections 98 through 101.

This is one of the most difficult periods of the entire history of the church for the actual events

of what the saints are going through. Before we dive directly into that, let me just ask

a question. Have you ever had a time in your life where you had been given some promises?

There was a pretty high expectation for what was going to happen or occur, a nice blessing

of some sort, and you worked towards it and it didn't happen.

And you started to get discouraged, and you worked harder for it, and it got further and further

and further away from a possibility.

And you turn heavenward and say, what's going on?

I thought I was promised in my patriarchal blessing this, or I got a priest's blessing from somebody

and they promised that this would happen, or the Holy Ghost made it very clear

to me that something was going to occur, and now it's not happening. What do you do in

those situations? That's a very small way to introduce what's happening here in Section

98 through 101. So Joseph is about, as they would travel, it's about 900 miles

from Courtsland in Ohio all the way out to Independence, Missouri, what they're calling Zion, Joseph gets Section 98 before he could have

possibly known all of the details. Now, a letter was sent earlier in July that, ooh, things

aren't looking great here. They're starting to heat up between the

settlers there in Independence and the Saints. And so he would have known, hmm, things are

headed in a wrong direction, but he wouldn't have had any idea the extent based on letters.

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