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Welcome to Talking Scripture, I'm Mike.

I'm Bryce and today we are going to be in section 94 through 97 of the Doctrine and Covenants.

These sections talk about building some buildings and building some temples.

We are going to start in section 95.

We'll get to 94 but we're going to start in the 95th section.

Yeah.

I love that this week we're going to do 97 and 95 because that is one of the great lessons

of church history.

It's the foil between the Kirtland Temple and the non-existent Jackson County Temple.

Now foil is a literary term where the author places two characters or two situations that

are going in opposite directions right next to each other, kind of like you foil swords.

Well, you foil characters.

So think about that in great literature.

Even in the Book of Mormon, we've got Nephi foiled with laymen.

We've got King Benjamin foiled with King Noah.

We've got Amalakaya foiled with Captain Moroni.

There's often a very good character who's moving up, foiled or put in close proximity

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