Welcome to Search These Commandments, a standard of truth podcast production.

In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirk-Mott and Dr. Richard Leduc review each section of the Doctrine in Covenants and the revelations received by the Prophet Joseph Smith to strengthen your faith and deepen your understanding.

They approached the doctrine and covenants with faith, expertise, and humor.

Hi, welcome to another episode of Search These Commandments,

a Standard of truth podcast production.

I'm your host, Dr. Garrett Dirkmont, and I'm joined by my friend, Dr. Richard Leduke.

Hello, Garrett.

In this week's episode, we're going to talk about Doctrine Covenants Section 3.

That's right. And Doctrine Covenant Section 3 is, this is a little counterintuitive because it is the third section of the doctrine and

covenants. But it's actually the earliest recorded revelation that Joseph Smith receives. Now,

depending on what you define a revelation as, I mean, obviously, every time Marona is visiting,

you could call that a revelation.

Of course, when Joseph is visited by the father and the son,

you could easily call that a revelation

if you wanted to call the vision of revelation.

What do I mean by that?

I mean that this was the earliest revelation that was written down at the time that it was received.

July of 1828.

So we are almost two years away from the book of Mormon being published and the church being organized. We are early,

early in Joseph's attempts to do what the Lord wants him to do. So I think it's important to

recognize that that as you get to Doctrine and Covenant Section 3, even though it is Section 3,

it really is our earliest recorded revelation that demonstrates this interaction with Joseph and the

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