Hello and welcome to the Scripture Study Project.

Our podcast dedicated to helping you discover the scriptures in a fresh way, invest your mind

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We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton,

and this week we are studying Doctrine and Covenants, sections 49 through 50. This week,

we have provided a special ambiance sound of rain as we record. No, right now we're just sitting by windows recording and I thought,

oh, we probably should move so we don't, so no one hears rain. But then I realized like that's a,

that's a sound people pay good money for. You know, that's a playlist that you get on Spotify to make

sure that you can relax. Marvel at our editing abilities, even though it's not editing.

Yeah, we're just, this is real life rain, you guys.

So you're getting an extra special episode with that.

This study this week, as we head into sections 49 through 50, is, you know, I said last week it was kind of a continuation from

the weeks before that. And really all of these sections are kind of tied together. They're coming

from a same period of time, from the same location, things, similar questions being asked as

more and more people come to the church, come to this area,

and there's lots of questions of how to handle all of the situations that arise.

I think it's a comforting thing, just in that contextual note, that we always talk about

the restoration as a process, not an event, that God reveals truth line upon line.

And this is historical proof that it's happening because we have these revelations that are

building upon each other. A point that's made in an earlier revelation, like in Section 46 that

we read last week, is clarified in

sections 49 and 50M will continue to be clarified in further sections. And so it's comforting

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