The State Patriarchal Blessing

The church either doesn't trust its scriptures or it trusts its patriarchs. If you are just a descendant of levi, there's no em for the leadership of the church. You have no claim to be the presiding bishop. But if you are a descendant of aaron, that is a problem according to the revelations in the church's own book of doctrine and covenants. That is why boyd. K. Packer sent the directive down through the state president to the state patriarch that he had to call in john's son and give him a ferent blessing.