The veil was taken from our minds and the eyes of our understanding were opened.

Doctrine and Covenants section 110 verse 1.

Hey listeners, this is Nick from Book of Mormon Central, and today's podcast addresses the question.

Why is the Pentecostal season in Curtland believable?

The months and weeks surrounding the completion and dedication of the Curtlin Temple

witnessed a Pentecostal-like outpouring of heavenly manifestations.

According to Milton v. Bachman Jr., during a 15-week period, extending from January 21 to May 1, 1836,

probably more Latter-day Saints beheld visions and witnessed other unusual spiritual manifestations than during any other era in the history of the Church.

Carl Ricks Anderson has documented eight different occasions

in which the Savior appeared at the temple during this period. Fortunately, the glorious outpouring

of divine manifestations is very well documented by several contemporaneous eyewitness sources. Historian

Stephen C. Harper highlights six accounts written during this Pentecostal period

that documents some of the heavenly manifestations that were occurring at that time.

Benjamin Brown, an 1835 convert to the church, began writing a letter to his wife sometime

shortly before the March 27, 1836, solemn assembly, during which the temple was dedicated.

In his letter, Brown chronicled many marvelous things that had transpired in recent days and weeks.

Many visions are given by night and by day, he said.

Some have seen the heavens opened and seen the Savior.

Others have seen angels on the four corners of the

house of the Lord. And still others saw incredible visions of various biblical prophets, Adam,

Elisha, Peter, James, and John, and of cloven tongues, just like those seen on the Day

of Pentecost in Acts 2, verse 3.

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