D&C 94-97 I Kirtland Temple Construction Begins I Come Follow Church History I Lynne Hilton Wilson

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🗓️ 22 August 2025

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With the Saints in Independence struggling to fulfill the Lord's command to build a temple, the Saints in Kirtland, Ohio, get the invitation from the Lord to build a temple there. The Saints in Kirtland dig in and begin construction as the miracles start to commence. Join Lynne Hilton Wilson and special guest Steven C. Harper, Church History professor at BYU, for the stories, insights and experiences surrounding the construction of the first temple of God in the latter days. In addition to learning about the historical events related to the construction of the Kirtland Temple, Professor Harper offers a deep dive into how the temple is designed to prepare us to return to our Heavenly Father. Thank you for joining us at Scripture Central! We hope that you have enjoyed this content.

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0:00.0	If you keep my commandments, you shall have power to build the temple!
0:05.0	The Lord is telling Joseph, I gave unto you a commandment that you should build a house.
0:11.0	Everyone is getting excited about building the temple, and every revelation is pointing there.
0:17.0	It's not just building a building. We're actually preparing to come into his presence. I want to give you an endowment of power.
0:24.6	Without the ordinances of the Melchizedic priesthood,
0:28.6	you're not endowed with power.
0:31.6	And if you're not endowed with this power,
0:34.6	you can't regain God's presence and abide there.
0:37.7	This to me is so applicable to us in 2025.
0:41.7	I designed to endow you with power from on high.
0:45.0	For heaven's sake, build the temple.
0:56.6	Hello, welcome back to Scripture Central. I'm Lynn Hilton Wilson here to invite you to come follow church history.
1:01.3	We get to discuss Doctrine and Covenant section 94 to 97 today.
1:05.8	I'm going to be focusing on the questions that have to do with the temple, the temple preparation. And the construction
1:13.2	begins during this period of time. We're talking about May through August of 1833. It's a wonderful
1:19.4	time. And I will begin with a hard questions that are important to me. I hope you can find
1:27.0	your own hard questions and seek answers to them. I hope you can find your own hard questions and seek
1:28.5	answers to them. And then I'll do a little timeline before I invite Stephen Harper to join us.
1:35.3	And Stephen Harper is one of the best church history scholars we have right now. He used to be
1:41.3	the BYU Studies editor. He's been a professor at Brigham Young University in church history for decades.
1:47.0	He was part of the Joseph Smith Papers Project.
1:50.0	We are so happy to have him here.
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