Introduction“The Prophet Joseph said to me [Brigham Young], about sixteen years ago [at Kirtland], ‘If I
was to show the Latter-day Saints all the revelations that the Lord has shown unto me, there is scarce
a man that would stay with me, they could not bear it.’” (“Quotations from President B. Young’s
Sermon, at the Bowery, Sunday, December 29, 1850,” Millennial Star 13 [Sept. 1, 1851]: 258.)
“Would to God, brethren, I could tell you WHO I am! Would to God I could tell you WHAT I
know! But you would call it blasphemy and...want to take my life!” (Orson F. Whitney, Life of Heber
C. Kimball (Salt Lake City: Kimball Family, 1888) 332–3.
(^57) DHC, 1:4–5 and JSH 1:14–20.
(^58) JSH 1:20 (emphasis added).
(^59) BOM, 3 Nephi 26:6–12.
(^60) Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 26:12.
(^61) Compare BOM, 3 Nephi 26:8.
(^62) The Sealed Portion of the Book of Mormon—The Final Testament of Jesus Christ. Hereafter “TSP.”
(^63) Matthew 13:10–11.
(^64) See Human Reality—Who We Are and Why We Exist! (Melba: Worldwide United, 2009).
(^65) D&C, 93:24.
(^66) BOM, Ether 3:13.
(^67) JSH 1:19.
(^68) TSP, 638. (Appendix 3, “The First Vision,” 1:24.)
(^69) BOM, 3 Nephi 15:1–2.
(^70) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:14.
(^71) TSP, 643–55. (Appendix 4, “The Fullness of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.”)
(^72) BOM, 3 Nephi 16:3.
(^73) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:3–5.
(^74) BOM, 3 Nephi 17:14.
(^75) BOM, 2 Nephi 3:6–10.
(^76) See DHC, 2:380. “The Presidency then took the seat in their turn, according to their age,
beginning at the oldest, and received their anointing and blessing under the hands of Father Smith.
And in my turn, my father anointed my head, and sealed upon me the blessings of Moses, to lead
Israel in the latter days, even as Moses led him in days of old; also the blessings of Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob. All of the Presidency laid their hands upon me, and pronounced upon my head many
prophecies and blessings, many of which I shall not notice at this time.”
(^77) Compare Numbers 14:23, 31–5 and Joshua 5:6. “For the children of Israel walked forty years
in the wilderness, till all the people that were men of war, which came out of Egypt, were consumed,
because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord: unto whom the Lord sware that he would not shew
them the land, which the Lord sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land that floweth
with milk and honey.
(^78) See Human Reality—Who We Are and Why We Exist! (Melba: Worldwide United, 2009).
(^79) BOM, 1 Nephi 13:39.
(^80) Marvelous Work and a Wonder®, 2010, A Marvelous Work and a Wonder Purpose Trust, 27
May 2010 http://marvelousworkandawonder.com.
(^81) Pearl of Great Price (PGP).
(^82) See notes and commentary in chapter 30.
(^83) 666 America, 309.
(^84) D&C, 1:35.
(^85) SNS, 60.
(^86) HR, chapter 18.
(^87) Isaiah 1:10–17.
(^88) See n. 56 above.
(^89) BOM, Ether 3:12–13.