Revelation given to Joseph Smith January 19th 1841: 1 Verily thus saith the Lord, unto you my servant Joseph Smith, I am well pleased with your offering and acknowledgments which you have made; for unto this end have I raised you up, that I might shew forth my wisdom through the weak things of the earth. Your prayers are acceptable before me, and in answer to them, I say unto you, that you are now called immediately to make a solemn proclamation of my gospel and of ...

of my people? and refuge for those who shall be left of them? 3 Awake! O kings of the earth! Come ye, O! come ye with your gold and your silver, to the help of my people—to the house of the daughter of Zion. 4 And again, verily I say unto you, let my servant Robert B Thompson help you to write this proclamation, for I am well pleased with him, and that he should be with you; let him, therefore, hearken ...

I the Lord loveth him. I therefore say unto you, I seal upon his head the office of a bishoprick, like unto my servant Edward Partridge, that he may receive the consecrations of mine house, that he may receive the consecrations of mine house, that he may administer blessings upon the heads of the poor of my people saith the Lord. Let no man despise my servant George, for he shall honor me. 9 Let my servant George, and my servant

unto me. But I command you, all ye my saints, to build a house unto me, and I grant unto you a sufficient time to build a house unto me; and during this time your baptisms shall be acceptable unto me. 11 But, behold, at the end of this appointment, your baptisms for your dead shall not be acceptable unto me, and if you do not these things, at the end of the appointment ye shall be rejected as a church with your dead saith the Lord ...

hid from before the foundation of the world; things that pertain to the dispensation of the fulness of times, and I will shew unto my servant Joseph, all things pertaining to this house, and the priesthood thereof, and the place whereon it shall be built; and you shall build it on the place where you have contemplated building it; for that is the spot which I have chosen for you to build it. If you labour with all your mights, I will consecrate that spot, that it shall be made holy; and if my people will ...

my name in Jackson county, Missouri, and were hindered by their enemies, saith the Lord your God: and I will answer judgment, wrath and indignation, wailing and anguish and gnashing of teeth, upon their heads, unto the third and fourth generation, so long as they repent not, and hate me saith the Lord your God. 16 And this I make an ensample unto you for your consolation concerning all those who have been commanded to do a work, and have been hindered by the hands of their enemies, and ...

19 Behold! verily I say unto you let my servant George Miller and my servant Lyman Wight, and my servant John Snider, and my servant Peter Haws, organize themselves, and appoint one of them to be a president over their quorum for the purpose of building that house. And they shall form a constitution whereby they may receive stock, for the building of that house. And they shall not receive less than fifty dollars for a share of stock ...

shall be accursed, and shall be moved out of their place saith the Lord God, for I the Lord am God, and cannot be mocked in any of these things. 21 Verily I say unto you let my servant Joseph pay stock into their hands for the building of that house as seemeth him good, but my servant Joseph cannot pay over fifteen thousand dollars stock in that house, nor under fifty dollars neither can any other man saith the Lord.

generation to generation. 26 Let my servant Henry G. Sherwood pay stock into that house as seemeth him good for himself and his seed after him from generation to generation. 27 Let my servant William Law pay stock into that house for himself and his seed after him, from generation to generation. If he will do my will let him not take his family unto the eastern lands, even unto Kirtland, nevertheless I the ...

servant Joseph, in the room of my servant Hyrum; that my servant Hyrum may take the office of Priesthood and patriarch, which was appointed unto him by his father by blessing and also by right, that from henceforth he shall hold the keys of the patriarchal blessings upon the heads of all my people, that whoever he blesses shall be blessed and whoever he curseth shall be cursed: that whatsoever he shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever he shall loose on earth, shall be loosed in ...

William, and my servant Hyrum, and for them alone, and let my servant Joseph tarry at home, for he is needed; the remainder I will shew unto you hereafter, even so: Amen. 32 And again verily I say unto you, if my servant Sidney will serve me and be councillor unto my servant Joseph, let him arise, and come up and stand in the office of his calling and humble himself before me; and if he will offer ...

34 And again, verily I say unto you, if my servant Robert D. Foster will obey my voice, let him build a house for my servant Joseph according to the contract which he has made with him, as the door shall be open to him from time to time; and let him repent of all his folly, and clothe himself with charity, and cease to do evil and lay aside all his hard speeches, and pay stock also into the hands of the quorum of the

all my church, to be a Translator, a Revelator, a Seer, and Prophet: I give unto him for Councillors my servant Sidney Rigdon, and my servant William Law, that these may constitute a quorum, and first presidency to receive the oracles for the whole church. 40 I give unto you my servant Brigham Young to be a president over the Twelve Travelling Council, which twelve hold the keys to open up the authority of my kingdom ...

for standing ministers nevertheless they may travel, yet they are to be ordained for ^to be^ standing ministers to my church saith the Lord. 44 And, again, I give unto you Joseph Young, Josiah Butterfield, Daniel Miles, Henry Herriman, Zera Pulsipher, Levi Hancock, James Foster, to preside over the quorum of seventies, which quorum is instituted for travelling elders to bear record of my name in all the world, wherever the travelling ...

Revelation to Joseph Smith Jany 19th 1841 Wilford Woodruff