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I'm Taylor.

I'm Tyler.

And I'm Anthony Sweat.

This is Book of Mormon Central's Come Follow Me Insights. Today, part two, official

declaration one and two.

So as we transition into official declaration number one, followed by number two, I think it's really

important for us to keep in mind that Article of Faith number nine says that we don't

just believe in the many revelations that have been given or that we're currently being

given to the Prophet Joseph in 1842, but many great and important things would be revealed at future times as the need

arises. So I think it's important right out of the shoot before we jump into the actual

official declaration number one to set the stage historically and culturally for the need

for what they called the manifesto, this ending of plural marriage,

because there's a lot going on in the United States. And there are two things that are really

in the crosshairs of those lawmakers back east. They call them the twin relics of barbarism. Yeah. And the twin relics of barbarism.

Yeah, and the twin relics of barbarism are slavery and polygamy.

And it's at the 1856 Republican National Convention, the Republican Party in essence says,

we're going to take these two things on. So a lot of

people don't realize that the ending of polygamy is actually very tied to the ending of slavery.

And the Civil War, they're very connected.

And the Civil War, because with the ending of slavery, once this, ending of slavery and

the Civil War, when that was settled in the mid-1860s, then they start to shift their attention to say,

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