Episode 14: The Development of Temple Worship (Richard Bennett)

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🗓️ 15 August 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Just recently, prophets have made notable changes to temple practices of the Church. This, however, is not a new phenomenon. In this powerful episode, Professor Richard Bennett discusses his decades of research on how temple practices of the Church have divinely developed, the pivotal people and events that precipitated these events, and why temple work has always been and will be at the very soul of the Restoration.

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0:00.0	The Prophet Joseph Smith's history tells us that when he was 17 years old an angel named Moroni appeared to him.
0:09.5	The angel told Joseph that God had to work for him to do, including bringing forward an ancient
0:14.4	text called the Book of Mormon.
0:19.2	But that wasn't where the angel Morone I stopped.
0:21.8	He started quoting Old Testament passages to the young
0:24.4	Joseph Smith including this one from Malachai.
0:27.0	Behold I will reveal unto you the priesthood by the hand of Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and
0:35.4	dreadful day of the Lord and he shall plant in the hearts of the children the
0:40.3	promises made to the fathers and the hearts of the children shall turn to their
0:44.8	fathers. If it were not so, the whole earth would be utterly wasted at his coming.
0:51.2	From the start, God revealed the Joseph Smith that the restoration of the
0:54.9	gospel in the latter days would be centered in the power of the priesthood in
0:59.2	sealing up people through the ordinances and covenants of exaltation. In other words, the very soul of the last dispensation will live through its temples.
1:10.0	Although the focus on the temple was signaled from the very beginning, it's an
1:16.2	inaccurate idea to think that God told Joseph Smith everything about temple work
1:20.1	from the start. Like a beautiful painting, temple work developed by small strokes and in layers over time.
1:27.0	Professor Richard Bennett from BYU's Department of Church History and Doctrine
1:31.0	has spent over three decades of his academic career
1:34.6	studying this temple development.
1:37.0	Temple work is a work in progress.
1:41.0	Temple covenants continue to develop as needed and as revealed both by the
1:49.2	Lord and as asked for by the Saints themselves.
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