Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of SuccessionSmith, Joseph Fielding
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Origin of the 'Reorganized' Church and the Question of Succession
Smith, Joseph Fielding
Latter Day Saint churches -- Government; Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints -- Government
33. For verily I say unto you, that after you have had sufficient
time to build a house to me, wherein the ordinance of baptizing
for the dead belongeth, and for which the same was instituted from
before the foundation of the world, your baptisms for your dead
cannot be acceptable unto me.
34. For therein (that is in Temples) are the keys of the Holy
Priesthood ordained that you may receive honor and glory.
35. And after this time, your baptisms for the dead, by those who
are scattered abroad, are not acceptable unto me, saith the Lord.
36. For it is ordained that in Zion, and in her stakes, and in
Jerusalem, those places which I have appointed for refuge, shall be
the places for your baptisms for your dead.
37. And again, verily I say unto you, How shall your washings be
acceptable unto me, except ye perform them in a house which you
have built to my name?
38. For, for this cause I commanded Moses that he should build a
tabernacle, that they should bear it with them in the wilderness,
and to build a house in the land of promise that those ordinances
might be revealed which had been hid from before the world was;
39. Therefore, verily I say unto you, that your anointings and
your washings, and your baptisms for the dead, and your solemn
assemblies, and your memorials for your sacrifices, by the sons of
Levi, and for your oracles in your most holy places, wherein you
receive conversations, and your statutes and judgments, for the
beginning of the revelation and foundation of Zion, and for the
glory, honor, and endowment of all her municipals, are ordained
by the ordinance of my holy house, which my people are always
commanded to build unto my holy name."
I have read quite extensively from this revelation, now let us examine
and see just what is meant. At the time this revelation was given the
Saints were baptizing in the Mississippi river for their dead, this was
a special privilege that the Lord granted them in their poverty and
while they could prepare a place in the Temple for that ordinance. He
declares that while that place was being built He would accept of their
baptisms in the river, but just as soon as a place could be prepared
in the Temple baptisms for the dead in the river should cease. Now you
will notice that verse 31 reads:
"But I command you, all ye my Saints, to build a house unto me; and
I grant unto you a sufficient time to build a house unto me."
Now I wish you to note what follows:
"And during this time your baptisms shall be acceptable unto me."
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