Mormon Polygamy—The Truth Revealed! Appendix 2Spirit—and these promises were made between those who accepted this law
before the foundation of this world—are of no efficacy, virtue, or force in and
after the resurrection from the dead; for all contracts that are not made unto
this end have an end when men are dead.
8 Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.
- Behold, my house is a house of order, saith the Lord God. And inasmuch as
the men of my house have made it a house of confusion, I have appointed my
servant Joseph and conferred upon him the power and the keys of the
priesthood that are necessary to administer this law. And there is never but one
on the earth at a time on whom I confer the power and keys of this priesthood.
And it is only through the medium of my anointed, whom I have appointed on
the earth to hold this power, that any man can enter into this new and
everlasting covenant. And in all things he shall act in my name and according to
my will in these matters.
9 Will I accept of an offering, saith the Lord, that is not made in my name?
- Thus saith the Lord unto those who have violated the tender hearts of my
daughters in desiring wives and concubines like those of old: Will I accept of
you an offering, saith the Lord, that is not made in my name?
10 Or will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed?
- Or will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed unto
you through my only anointed, to whom I have given the power and keys
of this law?
11 And will I appoint unto you, saith the Lord, except it be by law, even as I and my
Father ordained unto you, before the world was?
- And will I appoint unto you, saith the Lord, except it be by law? Can I
appoint any woman unto you that hath not made a promise with you
according to the Holy Spirit, even as I and my Father ordained unto them
and you, before the world was?
12 I am the Lord thy God; and I give unto you this commandment—that no man
shall come unto the Father but by me or by my word, which is my law, saith the Lord.
- Behold, I am the Lord thy God; and I give unto you this commandment—
that no man shall abide by this law except it be given him of my holy anointed
whom I have ordained to this cause. And if it is not ordained by him, who is
anointed, then it has not come from me or from my father. Behold, can any
come unto the Father but by me or by my word, which is my law?