Episode 110: The Holy Ghost writes a letter to the President of the United States (124)

Doctrine and Covenants

Section 124

Revelation given to Joseph Smith at Nauvoo, Illinois, January 19, 1841

The Holy Ghost will write a proclamation to the President Elect of the United States and all the kings of the world

¹ I, the Lord, am well pleased with you, Joseph Smith. ² I like your prayers, and I'd like you to make a proclamation to all the kings of this world, to the president elect, governors, and to all nations. ⁴ It will be written by the Holy Ghost. 5 And the Holy Ghost will give the proclamation to you. ⁸ When I come to visit, I'll reveal my face. The oppressors and hypocrites will gnash their teeth, if they reject the proclamation. ¹¹ Oh you kings of the earth, give your gold and silver to the people of Zion. ^12-13 Robert B. Thompson will help you write the proclamation. I'll bless him with lots of blessings and he'll be great in my eyes.

John C. Bennett will be great. I will crown him with blessings and glory

¹⁵ I, the Lord, love Hyrum Smith. ¹⁶ Let John C. Bennett stand by Joseph Smith while sending my word to the kings and people of the earth. ¹⁷ If he does this, he'll be mine, and I'll crown him with blessings and glory.

¹⁸ Lyman Wight will keep preaching in Zion. He'll begat glory and honor to himself and my name. ¹⁹ I'll receive him like I did David Patten, who is here with me at this time, along with Edward Partridge and Joseph Smith, Sen., who is sitting at Abraham's right hand. He is holy and he is mine.

²⁰ George Miller is without guile. He loves my testimony and I, the Lord, love him. ²¹ I am making him a bishop. Don't let any man despise him.

²² Let George [Miller], Lyman [Wight], John Snider, and others build a house for me. Joseph [Smith] will show them how and where to build it.

Baptism of the dead

²⁶ Send swift messengers to tell everyone to bring their gold, silver, precious stones, and antiques, along with box, fir, and pine trees, and all the other precious trees of the earth. ²⁷ Have them bring iron, copper, brass, zinc, and other precious things to build a house for me to live in. ²⁹ And build a baptismal font to baptize dead people. ³¹ I command all you saints to build me a house. ³² If you don't, your baptisms for dead people won't be acceptable to me. ³³ I originated the law of baptism for the dead before the world began. ³⁶ You can only baptize dead people in Zion, Jerusalem, and other places I've appointed for refuge. ³⁸ Your anointings, washings, baptisms for the dead, assemblies, memorials, sacrifices, oracles, conversations, statutes, judgments, revelations, glory, honor, and endowment must be in my holy house.

Let Joseph Smith and his seed live in Nauvoo House forever

41 I'll reveal to my church things that have never been revealed. 42 I'll show Joseph [Smith] things about this house. 43 Build it on the spot I tell you to build it on. 44 If you work hard, I'll make the spot holy. 48 But if not, there will be cursings, indignation, and judgments on your heads for all of your follies and abominations. 50 I'll visit on the heads of those who hinder my work - to the third and fourth generation.

51 I accepted the offerings of those whom I commanded to build me a house in Jackston County, Missouri. But they were hindered by their enemies. 52 They will pay with wailing, anguish, and gnashing of teeth upon their heads to the third and fourth generations.

54 I'll save all the pure of heart who were slain in Missouri.

55 I command you again to build me a house in this place. 57 I've put a blessing on Joseph [Smith]'s head and on the head of his posterity. 58 Everyone on earth is blessed by Joseph [Smith]'s seed. 59 So let Joseph [Smith] and his seed live in that house forever. 60 It'll be called the Nauvoo House.

Buy $50 to $15,000 stock in my house

^62-66 George Miller, Lyman Wight, John Snider, and Peter Haws may buy $50 to $15,000 of stock in the house.

Almon Babbitt set up a golden calf for my people to worship

⁸³ I, the Lord, have a scourge prepared for the inhabitants of that city. ⁸⁴84 I'm not pleased with Almon Babbitt. He set up a golden calf for my people to worship.

William Law will heal the sick, raise the dead, and cast out devils

⁸⁷ William [Law] should stop worrying about his family's health. ⁸⁹ He should obey Joseph [Smith] and publish the new translation of the Bible. ⁹⁰ If he does this, his seed won't have to beg for bread. ⁹¹ I appoint William [Law] as Joseph Smith's counselor, and Hyrum [Smith] to the office of Priesthood and Patriarch. ⁹³ Whoever he [Hyrum Smith] blesses will be blessed and whoever he curses will be cursed. Whatever he binds on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever he looses on earth will be bound in heaven. ⁹⁴ From now on he is a prophet, seer, revelator to my church, along with Joseph [Smith]. ⁹⁵ He'll have the same gifts and honor that Oliver Cowdery once had.

⁹⁸ William Law will heal the sick, cast out devils, and be immune to deadly poison. ⁹⁹ He'll also go places where poisonous serpents can't bite his heel, and his thoughts will be like eagles' wings. ¹⁰⁰ And he'll raise the dead.

¹⁰⁶ Let Sidney [Rigdon] lift up his voice like a trump to warn everyone on earth of the wrath to come. ¹¹⁰ Amen.

¹¹⁵ Robert D. Foster must build a house for Joseph [Smith]. If he does that, the door will be opened to him from time to time. ¹¹⁶ But he must repent of his folly and quit doing evil things. ¹¹⁸ And obey Joseph [Smith], Hyrum [Smith], and William Law. Everything will go well for him forever. Amen.

¹¹⁹ Only believers in the Book of Mormon can buy stock in the Nauvoo House. ¹²⁰ Those who don't will receive cursings, not blessings. ^122/sup>Amen.

I appoint Brigham Young to be president of the Twelve

¹²⁵ Joseph [Smith] is a presiding elder over my church, to be a translator, revelator, seer, and prophet. ¹²⁶ Sidney Rigdon and William Law will be his counselors. ¹²⁷ Brigham Young will be president over the Twelve. ¹²⁸ The Twelve have the keys to my kingdom on earth. ¹⁴⁵ Amen.