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  1. Section 122. The word of the Lord to Joseph Smith the Prophet, while a prisoner in the jail at Liberty, Missouri. This section is an excerpt from an epistle to the Church dated March 20, 1839 (see the heading to section 121). 1–4, The ends of the earth will inquire after the name of Joseph Smith; 5–7, All his perils and travails will give ...

  2. Revelations of Joseph Smith. During Joseph Smith’s prophetic ministry, he received over 100 revelations that were recorded and later canonized. 1 The majority were given in the first-person voice of Jesus Christ, and most of these now appear as sections of the Doctrine and Covenants. Joseph received his earliest revelation (now Doctrine and ...

  3. Doctrine and Covenants 1:37. After the conference, Oliver Cowdery took copies of the revelations to Missouri. He gave them to William Phelps, a Church member who had a printing press. Oliver asked Brother Phelps to print 3,000 books. Before the printing was finished, however, wicked men stopped the press and destroyed most of the pages.

  4. Joseph Smith is the founder of the Latter Day Saint movement and is recognized by multiple Latter Day Saint churches as the founder. Beginning in 1828, Smith began dictating the text of what later became the Book of Mormon, and also began dictating written revelations he said were inspired by God. Smith's teachings evolved over his lifetime ...

  5. In 1978 the revelatory experience was added to the Pearl of Great Price along with Joseph Smith’s vision of the celestial kingdom. Shortly thereafter these two revelations were taken out of the Pearl of Great Price and given their present places in Doctrine and Covenants 137 and 138.

  6. Various prophets, from Adam to the present dispensation, came to Joseph Smith with keys (see Doctrine and Covenants 128:21). John the Baptist brought “the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins” (Doctrine and Covenants 13:1).

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  8. Joseph Smith’s instructions to the first missionaries in England were, “To adhere closely to the first principles of the Gospel, and remain silent concerning the gathering, the vision, and the Book of Doctrine and Covenants, until such time as the work was fully established, and it should be clearly made manifest by the Spirit to do otherwise.”