Ep 349 | D&C 137-138, Come Follow Me 2025 (December 1-7)
Talking Scripture
Mike Day & Bryce Dunford
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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(00:00) The doctrine of salvation for the dead is revealed in Section 137.
(01:43) Divine curiosity is a catalyst for revelation.
(07:25) Joseph marvels at how Alvin obtained Celestial glory without being baptized. He learns that all who have died without a knowledge of the gospel, who would have received it, shall be heirs of the Celestial Kingdom.
(12:30) All children that die before the years of accountability are saved in the Celestial Kingdom.
(19:23) After losing dear family members, Joseph F. Smith receives revelation about the Spirit World.
(25:11) Joseph F. Smith has a vision of Jesus coming into the Spirit World after His crucifixion.
(28:33) Those in the Spirit World see the absence of their bodies as bondage. The body and spirit are very much connected.
(32:44) Coats of light and coats of skins in Genesis 3.21.
(34:16) The great feast in a temple setting as contained in D&C 138 and Isaiah 26. The Saints are invited to rise from the dust and enter into kingship.
(44:29) The Savior organizes the righteous to preach to the spirits in prison, but then he resurrects the righteous. Perhaps the work of saving the dead is for our dispensation.
(51:17) As children of God we are all connected and will continue preaching the gospel in the Spirit World after death.
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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. |
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| 0:16.9 | For show notes, head over to our website, talking scripture.org. |
| 0:23.3 | Welcome to Talking Scripture. I'm Mike. And I'm Bryce. And today we are going to be in Section 137 and 138 of the Doctrine Covenants. |
| 0:31.7 | Now, 137 actually fits back in the Curtland era. Yeah. Section 137 was given in January of 1836. And if you remember |
| 0:41.2 | when we talked about Section 110 and Section 109, when Joseph is giving the initiatory ordinances |
| 0:48.9 | to select members of the church, he is also having a visionary experience. In the journal or in the records of |
| 0:57.0 | Oliver Cowdery and John Coral, they talk about how their bodies were washed with pure water and |
| 1:02.7 | anointed with holy oil in preparation for having visions. In fact, Oliver Cowdery says, the glorious |
| 1:09.0 | scene is too great to be described. |
| 1:11.5 | Therefore, I only say that the heavens were opened to many and great and marvelous things were shown. |
| 1:17.2 | So in the context of this section, we're back in the Kirtland era. |
| 1:21.1 | It's before the temple's dedicated and individuals are having visions and they're having marvelous experiences. |
| 1:27.4 | And Bryce, this section is an interesting section because it's a vision that Joseph is having. |
| 1:32.4 | And yet in the visionary experience, there are people in the room that are alive that he's seeing in the context of redemption for the dead theology. |
| 1:43.2 | This is absolutely brilliant teaching. We get to see |
| 1:46.0 | God as a teacher in this section. So let me take you back to the early days of church history, |
| 1:52.4 | the loss of Alvin Smith. Do you remember how much that affected Joseph? Alvin was probably the most |
| 2:00.1 | interested in all that was going on in Joseph's life. Alvin was probably the most interested in all that was going on in Joseph's life. |
| 2:04.2 | Alvin was there behind Joseph. And you might ask, Heavenly Father, why would you take such an |
| 2:10.0 | ardent supporter at a time when Joseph needed them so much? His law struck Joseph very deep into |
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