D&C 88 I Olive Leaf, Temple Prep, School of Prophets I Come Follow Church History with Lynne Wilson

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🗓️ 7 August 2025

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Emma was twenty-nine years old—and seven months pregnant—when, in the fall of 1832, their family moved from the John Johnson farm in Hiram Ohio to Kirtland, approximately thirty miles north. Joseph and Emma set up their humble home in the rooms above Newel K. Whitney’s store. Shortly thereafter, Joseph left for New York City to buy supplies for the Missouri saints. A little over a month later, on 6 November, Emma gave birth to Joseph Smith III, her fourth child, but the first to survive. Joseph returned from New York City just hours after his birth. Their adopted daughter, Julia Murdock Smith, was eighteen months old. In addition to the family’s quarters, Joseph used one of the rooms for an office to complete his Bible translation. Shortly after Christmas, on December 27, Joseph asked nine high priests to join him in his office to teach them about revelation. They each came focused and unified on receiving God’s will, and exercising their faith. They each knelt and prayed individually to be of one heart and one mind. Following the prayers, Joseph began to receive the revelation, with Fredrick G. Williams acting as scribe. By 9:00 p.m., the revelation was not finished, so the nine men returned the next day when the Lord revealed even more. These instructions and revelations formed the basis of the School of Prophets, a unique organization meeting to discuss revelation, future plans and challenges faced by this early community of Saints. Join Dr. Lynne Hilton Wilson as she examines these exciting elements of Church history.

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0:00.0	The Lord told you guys to build a temple months ago.
0:03.0	He gave you the site, you've done nothing about it,
0:06.0	you're fighting against each other, you're not consecrating your properties,
0:10.0	and we now are going to start a temple here.
0:13.0	For Joseph, it was exciting.
0:15.0	For the saints in Kirtland, they just couldn't wait.
0:17.0	Now what is this other comforter?
0:20.0	Joseph had at least six different visions of the
0:23.6	Savior. He wants to create a kingdom of priestesses so they can become temple servants. This is just a powerful section to better understand our temple worship.
0:42.9	Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central.
0:48.4	I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson, here to invite you to come follow church history as part of the Scripture Central team, where we try to build enduring faith in Jesus Christ by illuminating and defending restored
0:56.0	scripture. And this week we get to talk about one of the most beautiful sections of the
1:00.9	doctrine covenants, Section 88, which is also referred to as the olive leaf. We talk about
1:07.3	a temple prep and the need for a new temple in Curtland. And it's one of the most
1:13.2	amazing sections of scripture that we have. And the timing of it is also interesting that it
1:19.2	just followed a couple of days earlier the revelation on war. And now we have this beautiful
1:26.3	message that is not only encouraging and endearing to the
1:30.1	saints in Curtland, but it's also very needed to the saints in Missouri. And I'll explain that a
1:35.0	little bit when we get to the timeline. But let's first look at some of the questions. The hard
1:38.7	questions for me in this section are things like, what did the Lord mean by the second comforter?
1:45.0	What did he mean by the other comforter?
1:47.8	And what is the ordinance of washing the feet now?
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