Ep 336 | D&C 94-97, Come Follow Me 2025 (September 1-7)

Talking Scripture

Mike Day & Bryce Dunford

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 27 August 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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→ Timestamps: (00:00) The Kirtland Saints and the Jackson County Saints received the same command to build a temple, but they had different results.(05:27) The significance of temples was lost due to the Apostasy and misunderstanding of scriptural texts over time.(07:05) Four days after the revelatory rebuke in D&C 95, George A. Smith, Hyrum Smith, and Reynolds Cahoon haul loads of stone and commence digging trenches for the temple.(12:01) The other buildings described in Section 94 are not built, but the Saints did finish the Kirtland Temple.(15:04) The importance of temple work and its peculiar nature as emphasized in D&C 95.4 and Isaiah 28.21. A brief examination of Isaiah 28 in its temple context.(27:32) We build temples to give us a place to take our most holy desires unto the Lord so that He can pour out His spirit upon us.(28:55) The dedicatory prayer of King Solomon’s temple and its relevance to our day.(33:59) The Kirtland Temple is built on part of the Peter French farm.(37:56) The Latter-day Saints’ opposition to slavery contributed to the political tension in Jackson County, Missouri in the summer of 1833.(44:40) The Lord offers the Saints a way to escape vengeance by building the temple. He gives a similar message to Hezekiah, King of Judah, who understands the blessings and promises of the temple.(52:18) Why we build temples.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application of the scriptures in Come Follow Me.
0:10.1	We also dive into the history and cultures of the text.
0:13.4	Thanks for taking the time to share and subscribe to this podcast.
0:16.9	For show notes, head over to our website, talkingscripture.org.
0:23.6	Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.
0:25.7	And I'm Bryce.
0:26.6	And today we are going to be in section 94 through 97 of the Doctrine Convenants.
0:32.9	These sections talk about building some buildings and building some temples.
0:36.6	We are going to start in section 95. We'll get to some temples. We are going to start in
0:38.6	section 95. We'll get to 94, but we're going to start in the 95th section. I love that this week we're
0:44.5	going to do 97 and 95 because that is one of the great lessons of church history, is the foil between
0:51.8	the Curtland Temple and the non-existent Jackson County Temple.
0:57.6	Now, foil is a literary term where the author places two characters or two situations
1:04.3	that are going in opposite directions right next to each other, kind of like you foil swords.
1:10.6	Well, you foil characters. So think about that
1:13.1	in great literature. Even in the Book of Mormon, we've got Nephi filed with layman. We've got
1:18.4	King Benjamin foiled with King Noah. We've got a Malachiah foiled with Captain Marona. There's often,
1:25.7	you know, a very good character who's moving up,
1:29.3	foiled or put in close proximity with a bad character who's kind of moving down.
1:34.7	Well, these two circumstances are going to foil each other because the Curtland
1:39.8	saints have been commanded to build a temple in Curtland. And that was back in Section 88.
1:45.0	It's been several months, and they have not built the temple.
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