Ep 348 | D&C 135-136, Come Follow Me 2025 (November 24-30)

Talking Scripture

Mike Day & Bryce Dunford

Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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→ Timestamps: (00:00) D&C 136 details the will of the Lord as the Saints move west. Winter Quarters was a place to prepare for the final trek to the Great Basin.(04:31) D&C 136 reads differently and Brigham Young’s personality seems to come through.(14:25) Some of the events that led Joseph Smith to Carthage Jail. Plural marriage.(17:00) Joseph established the Nauvoo Charter and the Nauvoo Legion to protect the Saints from persecution.(27:21) The August 1843 election and its consequences.(33:24) William Law was hurt by the way he was excommunicated and also felt economically persecuted. He and others start the Nauvoo Expositor.(36:49) The Nauvoo City Council votes to destroy the printing press of the Nauvoo Expositor. Dallin H. Oaks’ legal paper in the Utah Law Review cautions about the dangers of presentism.(40:12) Joseph Smith is charged for destroying the press. Thomas Sharp calls for his extermination with powder and ball in the Warsaw Signal. Joseph is told by the Lord to flee to the Rocky Mountains. Many in Nauvoo urge him to come back. Joseph surrenders to authorities and is brought to Carthage Jail.(50:15) Joseph Smith is charged with treason for declaring martial law and calling out the Nauvoo Legion.(51:55) Joseph Smith’s final hours before the martyrdom.(58:39) John Taylor recovers and writes Section 135 in tribute to the prophet.(1:00:26) Joseph Smith has given us so much more knowledge of Christ. He produced more canonized scripture than any other. He stands at the head of the largest dispensation on earth and brought forth the keys and ordinances to redeem the dead.(1:05:21) Joseph Smith restored essential doctrines associated with the nature of God and man. Vital questions are answered in the revelations of the Restoration.

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0:00.0	Hey everybody, welcome to Talking Scripture, a podcast where we illustrate relevance and application
0:08.0	of the scriptures in Come Follow Me. 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. For show notes, head over to our website,
0:18.7	talking scripture.org.
0:25.3	Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike.
0:26.1	And I'm Bryce.
0:31.4	And today we are going to be in section 135 and 136 of the doctrine covenants.
0:35.4	This is the announcement of the martyrdom of the prophet Joseph Smith.
0:39.0	So we're going to do a little bit of history that led up to that moment and then we're just going to praise to the man who communed with Jehovah. And the church has
0:44.9	asked us to cover 136 as well, which is way forward in winter quarter. So we're going to go from
0:50.2	the martyrdom of Joseph Smith in June of 44, And then we're going to jump to the winner of
0:56.1	46-47. So Brigham's going to leave Navu early on in February-ish of 46. It'll take them most of the
1:06.6	summer to get across Iowa. And they conclude that there's no way they're going to make it to the Rocky
1:11.4	Mountains because of that. So they camp at Council Bluff, Iowa, right there on the Nebraska, Iowa border.
1:18.7	And we now call that winter quarters. And somewhere in their stay at winter quarters, the Lord reveals
1:24.9	136. So let's do that first, because we'd really like to end this
1:30.5	podcast paying tribute to the prophet Joseph and let 135 be our culmination. So let's jump into
1:37.4	136. Brigham Young is in winter quarters, and the Lord is helping Brigham organize the saints for the Trek West.
1:47.1	Interestingly enough, by Christmas of 46, we have about 700 homes. So by the end of 1846,
1:54.2	we've established a place to stop over. Yeah. And so much of Section 136 that you'll read this week is the Lord instructing
2:04.1	saints who come through to provide crops that they won't harvest. So you plant the crops because
2:12.0	someone else coming through will harvest those crops. And there's kind of that spirit of we're all in this together.
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