Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast, hosted by historian Dr. Garrett Dirkmont,

where we explore the early days of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

and gain rare historical insights into how a young farm boy was able to establish a new church

and grow it by way of visions, manifestations,

and miracles.

Welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.

I'm your host Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my co-host, Richard

Luduke. So in Come Follow Me, we are going to be discussing a section of the Doctrine

Covenants that I have always found interesting. And it's Section 87 of the Doctrine Covenants

as it relates to the Civil War.

What context can you provide for us with this particular section?

This is one of my favorite sections to study in the Doctrine and Covenants.

I think because of my American history background and, you know, I've studied a lot of Civil

War history, I find this to be one of the most fascinating and frankly, one of the most

incredible revelations that Joseph Smith receives.

It is not nearly taken as seriously, I think, as it should be by either Latter-day

Saints or their detractors. So let's talk a little bit about it. It's received in 1832.

So that's when the church is in Curtland. We've just, you know, over the last year,

had the revelation announcing that Jackson County is going to be where Zion is going to be.

And I think that the way that many people, and certainly many detractors of the church view

this revelation is, oh, that there's going to be a civil war over slavery.

Oh, my goodness gracious.

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