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(00:00) D&C 136 details the will of the Lord as the Saints move west. Winter Quarters was a place to prepare for the final trek to the Great Basin.
(04:31) D&C 136 reads differently and Brigham Young’s personality seems to come through.
(14:25) Some of the events that led Joseph Smith to Carthage Jail. Plural marriage.
(17:00) Joseph established the Nauvoo Charter and the Nauvoo Legion to protect the Saints from persecution.
(27:21) The August 1843 election and its consequences.
(33:24) William Law was hurt by the way he was excommunicated and also felt economically persecuted. He and others start the Nauvoo Expositor.
(36:49) The Nauvoo City Council votes to destroy the printing press of the Nauvoo Expositor. Dallin H. Oaks’ legal paper in the Utah Law Review cautions about the dangers of presentism.
(40:12) Joseph Smith is charged for destroying the press. Thomas Sharp calls for his extermination with powder and ball in the Warsaw Signal. Joseph is told by the Lord to flee to the Rocky Mountains. Many in Nauvoo urge him to come back. Joseph surrenders to authorities and is brought to Carthage Jail.
(50:15) Joseph Smith is charged with treason for declaring martial law and calling out the Nauvoo Legion.
(51:55) Joseph Smith’s final hours before the martyrdom.
(58:39) John Taylor recovers and writes Section 135 in tribute to the prophet.
(1:00:26) Joseph Smith has given us so much more knowledge of Christ. He produced more canonized scripture than any other. He stands at the head of the largest dispensation on earth and brought forth the keys and ordinances to redeem the dead.
(1:05:21) Joseph Smith restored essential doctrines associated with the nature of God and man. Vital questions are answered in the revelations of the Restoration.
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