D&C 129-132 - Eternal Marriage & Plural Marriage

Unshaken Saints

Jared Halverson

Religion & Spirituality, Education

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🗓️ 12 November 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Summary

Discerning spirits, the nature of God, glorious sociality, the timing of the Second Coming, eternal marriage, and plural marriage. In this pivotal lesson, we jump into the deep end of Restoration doctrine, covering Joseph Smith's most profound teachings on the nature of God, our eternal potential, and the covenants that bind us forever. Summary: This episode explores D&C 129–132, revelations containing foundational and high-level doctrine for the Church. D&C 129: Discerning Spirits. The Lord provides "three grand keys" to distinguish a resurrected being, a righteous spirit, and the devil appearing as an angel of light. This section emphasizes the eternal reality of the body and the importance of discernment. D&C 130: Eternal Knowledge and Timing. Joseph records several "items of instruction," including the promise that "whatever principle of intelligence we attain unto in this life, it will rise with us in the resurrection," providing an "advantage in the world to come." He also recounts the Lord's gentle command to "trouble me no more" about the timing of the Second Coming. Crucially, we learn that the "same sociality" we enjoy here, "coupled with eternal glory," will exist in the world to come. D&C 131: The New and Everlasting Covenant. This section reveals that in the celestial glory, a man "must enter into this order of the priesthood [the new and everlasting covenant of marriage]" to obtain the highest degree and have an eternal "increase." D&C 132: Eternal Marriage and Law. This essential revelation lays out the foundational law of eternal marriage, which must be "sealed by the Holy Spirit of promise" and entered into by revelation through the authorized servant. We discuss the stark difference between marriages that "have an end when men are dead" and those that lead to "thrones, kingdoms, principalities, and powers." We also examine the difficult topic of plural marriage, seeing it as an Abrahamic test given by command to "restore all things." Call-to-Action: What kind of "knowledge and intelligence" are you working to secure for your resurrection? Share your study goals in the comments! If this message helped clarify the path to eternal lives, please like, subscribe, and hit the notification bell to stay "Unshaken" in your faith. Chapter Timestamps: 0:00 Introduction 7:04 Discerning Spirits in an AI World 19:02 Timing of the Second Coming 29:34 Education for Eternity 43:39 Eternal Relationships 1:08:34 Growing into Godhood 1:17:39 Plural Marriage 1:38:09 Abrahamic Tests 2:02:11 One-Liners

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0:00.0	Hello, my friends. Welcome back to another week of Scripture study.
0:03.0	I'm battling some kind of chest cold, so if my voice is a little lower,
0:07.0	I've either hit puberty again or it's the result of this sickness.
0:11.0	Maybe it'll sound a little more manly as we talk about the Doctor in Covenants this week.
0:15.0	I am grateful to be able to talk about it, but we have good news and bad news as far as this week's material.
0:20.0	We are studying
0:21.3	four revelations, section 129 through 132, and the good news and bad news is the same news.
0:28.4	Four years ago when I taught this, there is so much content in these sections that it took
0:34.9	me five and a half hours to get through it all. So the good news is this time around, we are not going to spend five and a half hours to get through it all.
0:37.8	So the good news is this time around, we are not going to spend five and a half hours
0:41.6	on these revelations.
0:43.0	The bad news is we're not going to spend five and a half hours on these revelations.
0:47.2	They need all the time we can give them.
0:50.7	In some ways, I keep kind of cursing the Come Follow Me committee for doing us dirty this week.
0:56.1	And putting together in one week four revelations that demand a lot of time and attention.
1:02.2	Honestly, section 130, for example, is this potpourri of all these little, they call it items of instruction in the section heading.
1:10.2	And each couple of
1:11.6	verses is a new topic. They honestly could deserve one of our segments for the week, but we've only
1:16.5	got seven to work with. And since 132 is about eternal marriage and plural marriage, again,
1:22.7	hello, talk about an interesting revelation and a tricky one to navigate. I've tried to be as balanced as I
1:30.2	can in how we're going to allot our seven segments this week. And so I figured I'd give two to plural
1:36.5	marriage, two to celestial or eternal marriage, and then carve out the other three from section
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