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Welcome to Talking Scripture, I'm Mike.

And I'm Bryce.

And today we're in sections 111 through 114 and these sections are dealing with a lot

of things that are happening after the temple has been built.

So take a look at the dates and you'll see that there's quite a disparity between these

sections and a whole lot of history is going on in between those dates.

Yes.

I mean in April 1836, Joseph Smith is meeting with members of the printing firm to discuss

the finances of the church and there's also all this talk about how are we going to reclaim

the land in Zion and the saints also want to purchase even more land in Missouri.

And so with all of these things swirling around, there's several thousand dollars in debt

due to the construction of the Crow and Temple, somewhere in the space of 14 to 18 thousand

dollars, which back then was a lot of money.

And on top of all this, in June of 1836, W. W. Phelps writes a letter to Joseph Smith.

And in that letter, he informs him that the saints are being asked to leave Clay County.

And the leaders in the church up in Ohio write back and say, it's better that we agree

with this and we leave than to face another violent expulsion.

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