FINAL EXAM: Foundations of the Restoration; Griffiths

Elijah Abel

- First African American to get the priesthood

- Most prominent African American

- Ordained to the priesthood during JS presidency

- He was a member of the 70.

- Proof that the policy didn't exist before 1852 (No Blacks and the Priesthood)

Sidney Rigdon

- #2 candidate for becoming president of the Church, didn’t win so left

- Led a break-off group from the church

- Wanted to be the guardian of church, not the prophet

- Was a preacher before converted

- Saw the three degrees of glory vision with Joseph Smith

David O. McKay

- President of the church when missionary work in Africa was picking up

-considered practice policy not doctrine

- Didn't receive any revelation about changing the policy on blacks and the priesthood after appointing a committee to study the scriptures to find justification

Joseph Smith

- Ran for President in 1844

- Led the Nauvoo Legion & Council of 50

- Translated BoM

- Shot in Carthage Jail (During the Nauvoo Period)

Spencer W. Kimball

Receives Official Declaration 2 (Giving all worthy men the priesthood)

Emma Smith

- The first president of the Relief Society, in Nauvoo

- Didn't go to Utah, she stayed behind

- Her and Brigham Young had BEEF (lol)

- Struggled with the idea of polygamy

-created the hymn book

- Section 132(polgamy), 25 (elect lady)

Joseph F. Smith

- Received the 138th section of the D&C; Revelation about Jesus preaching to spirit world

- Was depressed about losing his son, WWI, and Spanish Flu

Brigham Young

- Led the Exodus West

- Second prophet

John Taylor

- Held in Carthage Jail with Joseph and Hyrum (was shot several times but survived)

- Third Prophet of the church

- Convert from England

Eliza R. Snow

- President of new (reboot) Relief Society in Utah

- NOT the first Relief Society President

- Writes constitution for RS and presents it to Joseph Smith (God has something even better)

- Helps establish Young Men, Young Women and primary after RS.

- Organized refugee help

John D. Lee

- The instigator of the Mountain Meadows Massacre. He is the only one put on trial and executed.

- Commander of militia

When was the martyrdom of Joseph Smith and Hyrum?

Nauvoo (1844)

When was the relief society reformed/rebooted?

Church in the West

D&C 124

- The Reconstruction of the Church,

- Received by Joseph Smith,

- Build a Temple and Hotel (Exclusive and Inclusive in Nauvoo)

D&C 127

proxy baptisms and record keeping

D&C 132

- new and everlasting covenant

- Celestial Marriage, sealing power, polygamy

- directed to Emma Smith,

D&C 130

-life after death in general

- received by Joseph Smith Jr

D&C 136

The Word and Will of the Lord

- to Brigham Young

- How to organize to move to Winter Quarters, Nebraska

D&C 137

- Given to Joseph Smith,

- redemption/salvation of the dead.

- Was pondering on Alvin and father.

D&C 138

Joseph F. Smith received

- vision of spirit world, paradise and prison

-teachings/missionary work there

- redemption of the dead

OD #1

The Manifesto (ending polygamy)

OD #2

The Long Promised Day - Priesthood extended to all worthy males

D&C 25

Emma Smith, an elect lady

Function and purposes of Church disciplinary councils.

1. Protect the innocent

2. Save the soul of the transgressor - allow the transgressor to repent

3. Safeguard church's purity - Protect the name and doctrine of the church

Divine treasuries explained in the Doctrine & Covenants and what they are intended for.

Sacred - to build up the church, missionary work

Ex. scriptures, temples, Book of Mormon videos, gospel library

Secular - improve communities and properties

Ex. City Creek Mall

Presiding councils in the Church and the function of each council.

- Presiding bishopric- judge in Israel, temporal things, preside over disciplinary council of the president of the church

- 1st presidency- holds the right of presidency, judges most difficult cases

- 12 apostles- traveling high council, witnesses of Christ

- 70- assist 12 in traveling to build up the kingdom

- Presiding Bishopric can hold 1st Presidency accountable

In which temple were ordinances done, but NOT for the dead?

Kirtland temple

Divine beings who appeared in the Kirtland temple and what keys each restored.

Moses - gathering of Israel

Elias (we don't know exactly who this is) - fullness of gospel

Elijah - sealing power

Jesus Christ

Fall of Kirtland and story of the Kirtland safety society bank.

- The panic of 1837.

- A guy bought a lot of shares and cashed them all in

- Warren Cowdery( is he the one that bought all the shares?) - officer of Kirtland bank who embezzled

Circumstance and causes of the 1838 Mormon War in Missouri.

- The "Mormon War" of 1838 results in the Extermination Order and the relocation of most Church members outside of Missouri.

- Number of latter day saints increases super fast

- Sidney Rigdon gives fiery speech.

- The Battle of Crooked Riverin late October led to Lilburn Boggs, the Governor of Missouri, issuing the Missouri Executive Order 44 ordering the Mormons to leave Missouri or be killed. On November 1, 1838, Smith surrendered at Far West, the church's headquarters, ending the war

Teachings about trials and how to overcome them

- Can turn trials into a chance to bring comfort and revelation

- If we endure it well we will be exalted

- We will all face our own liberty Jails

- Prison Temple

Counsel and early practices concerning baptisms for the dead (D&C 127-128) of

- Many baptisms not properly recorded or witnessed Men were baptizing for women and women for men

- Baptized In the Missouri for a time

- Needs to be done in order, recorded in a book

Origins of the Relief Society - who started it? under what circumstances?

During the construction of the Nauvoo Temple, Sarah M. Kimball and Margaret (Mary) Cook discussed the creation of a sewing society to help complete the Nauvoo Temple.

They asked Eliza R. Snow to write a few bylaws for the society. Joseph Smith read Eliza's work and pronounced it good, but declared, 'this is not what you want. Tell the sisters their offering is accepted of the Lord, and he has something better for them than a written constitution. I invite them all to meet with me and a few of the brethren ... next Thursday afternoon, and I will organize the women under the priesthood after the pattern of the priesthood.'"

As the meeting continued, Joseph Smith said that his wife's calling fulfilled a prophecy revealed to him about 12 years earlier [Doctrine & Covenants 25], in which the Lord spoke to her as "an elect lady, whom I have called"

He said "that not [Emma] alone, but others, may attain to the same blessings." This revelation established foundational principles for Latter-day Saint women.

Practices within the Relief Society, ordinations, healings, etc.

Ordination today: Priesthood keys

Back then: Called to minister. (basically being set apart)

Can administer in the name of Jesus but not by virtue of the Priesthood

Were given authority to heal and perform miracles, but not ordained to the Priesthood

Revelation that women had been organized in the church before

The Retrenchment movement and the restoration of the Relief Society.

Retrenchment movement- Brigham Young thought that his daughters were too interested in things and vanities of the world so he encouraged them to set up an organization that focused on moral, mental, and spiritual cultivation. Two organizations merged from this, the Retrenchment Association for women and the Young Ladies' Department of the Co-Operative Retrenchment Association

The railroad had a big part in the re-establishment of relief society

Reasons for plural marriage:

- Part of the restoration (restitution) of all things

- Intended to be an abrahamic test or trial. Customized trial.

- Provide everyone with a chance to go to the celestial kingdom (multiply and replenish)

~ righteous souls to earth through certain family lines

~ Raise righteous generation

- All worthy women be sealed to eternal husband

Types of sealings in Nauvoo and what each one meant.

- For Time Only - marriages for mortality only, often utilized when one of the spouses was already sealed to someone else. Allowed a way to provide for the material needs of the widow.

- For Time and Eternity - a marriage that would last in the eternities also. Operated the same way that eternal marriages work today.

- For Eternity Only (we don't do this one now)- bound a man and a woman only in the next life. This was often used when a woman desired exaltation but was married to a man who was not a member of the Church.

Two Classes of Angels:

- Spirits of Just Men made perfect

- Beings of flesh and bone (resurrected beings)

Teachings concerning the nature of the next life, sociality, etc.

- Sociality- "socialness, or the quality of being social" (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

- "social intercourse" (Merriam-Webster Online, 2012)

- "the tendency to form communities or societies" (the free dictionary, 2012)

- Same sociality in the next life as in this one

Context and main points of the King Follett discourse, what questions it answers. etc.

What kind of a being is God? Joseph Smith determines that God, angels, and humans are all beings at different stages. God was once like us (progressing at different paces)

the subject of death

D&C 135, 136 and the purposes given for Joseph and Hyrum Smith's deaths

- John Taylor says:

seal their testimonies with their blood

- The Lord says:

The wicked can show forth themselves

- Dan Jones recorded some of Joseph's last words as they left Nauvoo (slide 32) Joseph knew it was coming and said he loved Missouri too much to stay and risk their lives.

Key principles involving prophetic succession

1. Conferral of keys of the kingdom

2. Senior apostle ( whoever has been one the longest) presides over twelve

3. First presidency dissolves when Pres. dies, two counselors go back into twelve with seniority they had before

4. Through unanimous support of the twelve and the presiding officer a new first presidency is organized.

- The twelve are equal to the first presidency if the first presidency isn't present

- If the President of the Church transgresses, the Presiding Bishopric can do the disciplinary council

Function and purposes of the Council of Fifty

1. Run JS presidential campaign

2. Lead the city of Nauvoo (the government of Nauvoo) when the charter was revoked

3. Planned, organized and Lead/assisted in the trek west

Correct and false ideas taught in the Church about the nature of the priesthood policy.

False: Descendents of Cain, less righteous in the pre-mortal world, etc

Background of President Spencer W. Kimball leading to the 1978 revelation.

- Prayed and pondered for a long time

- Shows us that the Lord expects devotion from us to receive revelation

- Official Declaration 2

*Know how Spencer W Kimball and David O McKay were involved in this topic

Premillennialism

The world will continue to get worse and until Christ comes and initiates an era of peace and righteousness.

Postmillennialism

Mankind will continue to improve until it creates an era of peace and righteousness, and then the Savior will return.

Amillennialism

The millennium and the Savior's return are figurative concepts - the real era of peace happens inwardly in the hearts of believers.

The First Vision - account 1832

- Written in Joseph's own hand

- "First attempt" at recording

- Never published during joseph's lifetime

The First Vision - account 1835

- Adds the detail that Satan tried to stop him

- Given to Robert Matthews (Matthias the prophet AKA the murderer)

The First Vision - account 1838

- Joseph Smith History recording

- Canonized

The First Vision - account 1842

- Wentworth letter

- 2 personages that looked alike

The Word of Wisdom

Present commandment, not eternal commandment, given for us today. There has always been a health code in last dispensations but the Word of Wisdom is the health code for our day. "Commandment for our time not all time"

The Doctrine & Covenants

Originally called Book of Commandments, lectures on faith was doctrine (lectures on faith) & revelations were covenants (revelations)

The Gathering -

spiritual & physical (gather in your heart, but also still need to attend the temple)

Who was the coholders of the keys of the dispensation and who would've also taken Joseph Smiths place had he not died first?

Hyrum Smith

Who was the second President of the church?

Brigham Young

Who was the first African-American to be ordained to the priesthood and who ordained him?

It was Elijah able and he was ordained by Joseph smith

Who was the third President of the church and WAS present at Carthage Jail?

John Taylor

Who was the first Bishop of the church

Edward Partridge

Who helped with the law of consecration and the mission to Lamanites?

Edward Partridge

Who made the word of wisdom a requirement to enter the temple?

Heber J Grant

When did the first plural marriage by Joseph Smith to Fanny Alger take place?

Two Church Centers (1837)

Where are the two church centers?

Kirtland Ohio (where the temple is) and Missouri

When were the first temple ordinances and doctrine revealed?

Two Church Centers, Kirtland period

When were the first endowments for the dead performed?

Church in the West (St. George Temple)

During which era is the Salt Lake Temple finished?

Expansion

During which era is plural marriage stopped and labeled as those who continue will become excommunicated (Manifesto 1 and 2)?

Expansion

Which temple was used as mainly a meeting house or church headquarters (House of Instruction)?

Kirtland temple

Which temple was a lot of the translation worked on in?

Kirtland Temple

Which temple had a lot of angelic visitors including Christ appearing in the restoration of the priesthood keys?

The Kirtland temple

In which temple did the Saints start doing live endowments and the first baptisms for the dead?

In the Nauvoo temple

In which temple did the saints start doing baptisms for the dead?

In the Nauvoo temple the Saints started doing baptisms for the dead

In which temple did the Saints begin endowments for the dead and implement all the other ordinances known today?

St. George Temple

What were the two houses the Lord commanded the Saints to build in Nauvoo?

The Lord commands them to build a temple (sacred treasury) and a building where new people can stay and ponder the doings of the Lord (secular treasury)

Where are the temple ordinances introduced including plural marriage, though practice is still not known publicly?

Nauvoo

How can you tell if a personage is an angel vs a resurrected being?

Angel can't hold your hand and will not allow you to shake — devil angel will try to with no affect

Resurrected being can shake normal

Who were the four people in Carthage Jail and in what order did they die?

Hyrum Smith - Died first

Joseph Smith - Died second

William Richards - never got shot

John Taylor - barely survived

What was the Nauvoo expositor and what did it have to do with the martyrdom?

Newspaper propagandizing slander of JS; wrote bad things about the church

-made by ex members

Published anti-Mormon newspaper

Nauvoo council decided to get rid of it because it perpetuated violence. So they used violence to destroy it

Led to carthage

Who were the three runner ups to the president of the church?

Sydney Rigdon — guardian of the church

James Strange - Had a letter??

Brigham Young - Actually received priesthood since he was next in line in twelve

How did the twelve get all the key?

Why did the black lose the priesthood?

What did Spencer W Kimball say about receiving revelation?

9 out of the 12 met with Joseph and he passed it

We don't actually know

Unless a man is stepping on his tip toes trying and asking to receive

What are considered reliable sources fo doctrines?

PCC

Primary Current Cumulative

What is the law of consecration in our day?

Church Welfare Program

Second Manifesto

If you practice plural marriage, you will be excommunicated

D&C 76

Three Kingdoms of Glory with Sidney Rigdon

When was the meeting of the Council of 50?

Nauvoo

When was King Follett Sermon?

Nauvoo

When was JS arrested and taken to Carthage jail?

Nauvoo

D&C 93

Growing from grace to grace, church of the Firstborn, man was in the beginning with God

who enacted priesthood ban

Brigham Young

Who lifted priesthood ban

Spencer W Kimball

Who was first African American to receive priesthood during JS time

Elijah Able

Who was the stake president that initiates mountain meadows massacre

John D Lee

Who did missionary work to the Native Americans

Oliver Cowdery

Who made the Word of Wisdom a temple requirement

Herber J Grant

When were the first baptisms for the dead?

Nauvoo

When was the first relief society formed and organized?

Nauvoo

When was the exodus West?

Church in the West

When did church welfare system start?

Expansion

When did WOW become a commandment?

Church in the West