4/18/2018 - Section 90:4-7
April 18, 2018 Section 90:4-7 Prophets Succession, Follow the Prophet, Modern Day Revelation, Church Government Counselors, V 4 is a lesson in the government of the church: “ Nevertheless, through you (JS) shall the oracles (this can mean a revelation or the person through whom the revelation is given) be given to another, yea, even unto the church.” The reading a quote from President Joseph Fielding Smith illuminates the process of succession for our prophets: “ The word of the Lord was fulfilled wherein he said that through Joseph Smith the oracles should be given to the Church, and by command of the Lord the Prophet, in Nauvoo a few months before his death, called the apostles together and said to them that the Lord had commanded him to confer upon them all the keys and authorities which he had had conferred upon him, so that the work could be ‘rolled off’ of his shoulders onto theirs. He thereupon conferred upon them this divine governing power, but...