D&C 71-75 I Can God's Revelations Be Changed? I Come Follow Church History with Lynne Hilton Wilson

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🗓️ 12 June 2025

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Summary

As the work on the Book of Commandments continues, opposition comes knocking. Two former members of the Church turn from their covenants and seek to destroy it. Symonds Ryder and Ezra Booth each concoct several devious methods to stop the Restoration. Meanwhile, Joseph Smith begins to make minor changes to previous revelations and draws criticism from detractors who accuse him of trying to cover up folk magic and the use of previous editors. From this work comes a key question that members now and in the past must grapple with. Why did Joseph make Changs to God's word? Join Dr. Lynn Hilton Wilson as she takes a critical look at these changes to revelation in the early Church. With point by point instruction and several detailed examples, viewers will examine specific stories, details and history behind this challenging period of Church history. This is an episode not to be missed.

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0:00.0	We're actually changing God's word!
0:03.0	The attackers against this idea suggest that Joseph was trying to cover up folk magic.
0:08.5	Satan works hardest on those who he knows have an important role to play in the Restoration.
0:14.5	I want you to preach the gospel because you've got to correct all these false ideas that Ezra Booth has let out.
0:21.6	He caused so many problems.
0:24.6	Emma now was awake and Joseph was going to sleep when she hears a tapping on the window.
0:30.6	The mob sees them in the kitchen.
0:33.6	They flung open the door and they grabbed Joseph out of bed and took him outside. He hears Simon's voice. Joseph recognizes this is Simon's writer who once had been a member of the church and now was attacking him with vengeance.
0:46.3	Why? Because when you don't live your covenants, Satan is working with you.
0:52.3	You have stopped working for God and you are a serf of the devil.
1:02.3	Hello, I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, here to invite you to come follow church history.
1:08.9	We're going to look today at Section 71 and 75, the historical background,
1:13.3	and actually we're going to go beyond that as well. But all of what I'm going to talk about today
1:17.7	has the goal of building enduring faith in Jesus Christ. As part of the scriptural center team,
1:24.2	we want to illuminate restored scripture and making it more accessible and defensible and comprehensible. So these five sections actually only covered December 1831 to the next
1:36.1	month, January, 1832, just once month. But we don't have a chance to really address a lot of the
1:41.8	publication of the Book of Commandments. And so I would
1:44.5	like to take care of all of that into consideration in this week's lecture. The hard questions
1:51.3	that I had as I approached this was why were changes made to God's word. I have no problem
1:56.6	with spelling, no problem with punctuation, but we're actually changing God's word. And the attackers
2:02.6	against this section, against this idea, suggests that we are trying to cover up, Joseph
2:08.6	was trying to cover up, folk magic, or later editors. But I step back and say, there's changes
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