Episode 31 - Doctrine and Covenants 85-87, "Stand Ye in Holy Places"
Come Follow Me for Us
Melanie Stroud
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🗓️ 4 August 2025
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
This episode is about journals, how the spirit feels and how it testifies to us, and about standing in holy places.
From the manual:
Christmas Day is usually a time to ponder messages like “peace on earth” and “good will toward men” (see Luke 2:14). But on December 25, 1832, Joseph Smith’s mind was occupied with the threat of war. South Carolina had just defied the United States government and was preparing for battle. And the Lord revealed to Joseph that this was only the beginning: “War,” He declared, “will be poured out upon all nations” (Doctrine and Covenants 87:2). It seemed like this prophecy would be fulfilled very soon.
But then it wasn’t. Within just a few weeks, South Carolina and the U.S. government reached a compromise, and war was averted. But revelation is not always fulfilled at the time or in the way we expect. Nearly 30 years later, long after Joseph S mith was martyred and the Saints had moved west, South Carolina did rebel and civil war followed. Since then, war throughout the world has caused “the earth [to] mourn” (Doctrine and Covenants 87:6). While the prophecy was ultimately fulfilled, the value of this revelation is less in predicting when calamity will come and more in teaching what to do when it does. The counsel is the same in 1831, 1861, and 2021: “Stand ye in holy places, and be not moved” (verse 8).
Some of the apps I talked about were:
Chatbooks for printing your Instagram accounts
Happy Feed daily gratitude posts
StoryWorth website sends email prompts that you fill out and return and they make it into a book.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | This is Come Follow Me for us, a weekly podcast where we feast on the words of Christ and have fun doing it. |
| 0:07.6 | I'm your host, Melanie Straub. |
| 0:11.7 | Isn't that what the professionals do before they start a play? |
| 0:15.4 | I don't know. |
| 0:16.0 | Anyway, this is Doctrine and Covenants 85 through 87, Stand Ye in Holy Places. |
| 0:22.3 | I want to read a review and then get moving. |
| 0:25.1 | It says, thanks so much for talking so much about the Book of Mormon in your most recent episode. |
| 0:30.6 | My reading of it has not been where it should be, and your podcast was in my head when I |
| 0:35.3 | set down to scroll Facebook. |
| 0:39.8 | I opened the Book of Mormon on my phone instead, and it opened right up to something that spoke peace to my heart. I had read that passage |
| 0:45.9 | countless times, but today something small stood out to me, and I felt God speaking to me through it. |
| 0:53.2 | That's the magic, folks. That's what I'm talking about every day |
| 0:56.8 | when I sound like Sam I am. Like, will you read it on a bus? Will you read it? While you cuss, |
| 1:02.7 | that doesn't work. Will you read it in a train? But it is really cool that A, instead of going to |
| 1:09.7 | Facebook, she went to the scriptures and B, what I say |
| 1:12.8 | happens all the time happened to her, that a scripture looked different, it felt different, |
| 1:19.1 | it meant something different, and the Lord was able to speak to her through the scriptures. |
| 1:24.4 | It's the coolest. All right, let's go ahead and start reading from the manual. |
| 1:29.3 | It says, Christmas Day is usually a time to ponder messages like peace on earth and goodwill towards men. |
| 1:36.3 | But on December 25, 1832, Joseph Smith Mind was occupied with a threat of war. South Carolina |
| 1:43.0 | had just defiled the United States government |
| 1:45.1 | and was preparing for battle, and the Lord revealed to Joseph that this was only the beginning. |
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