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usually dies. The “three who [would] tarry” had their DNA manipulated later when they
were “caught up into the heavens”;^48 therefore, they were not “touched...with his finger” at
the same time as the others.
By the command of his voice, he gave the apostles the authority to do one thing and
one thing only: baptize the people in preparation of them receiving his doctrine. His
doctrine was the same doctrine he gave to the twelve whom he had chosen at Jerusalem. To
these he also gave power—not by ordination, but by the intelligence he conveyed to them in
the mysteries he taught with his own voice through the words of his mouth.
In both hemispheres, Christ commanded his apostles to teach the people only what
he had taught them—“nothing varying from the words which Jesus had spoken”!^49 This
was his doctrine; there was to be no other doctrine. The Law of Moses included priesthood
authority and callings. Christ’s doctrine never did. But even the Law of Moses, lived by the
ancient people, included instructions that those men were “ordained unto the high
priesthood of the holy order of God, to teach his commandments unto the children of
men.”^50 His commandments are the “fullness of his everlasting Gospel” and are given by his
own mouth in 3 Nephi, chapters 12, 13, and 14 of the Book of Mormon and in Matthew,
chapters 5, 6, and 7 of the Bible. There’s a very good reason why both the Bible and the Book
of Mormon reflect each other almost word for word in these chapters: BECAUSE THIS IS
THE FULLNESS OF THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST and his only doctrine.
AGAIN, not at any time did Christ ever lay his hands on the heads of any of his
apostles in any special ritualistic gesture to give them tangible power and authority—
reserved only for advanced creators—that in any way originated from some source
external to the apostles. The power and authority Christ gave to them was knowledge and
intelligence—the real truth! It was this knowledge and intelligence that gave Christ and
his Father their glory.^51 It would later be revealed by Joseph that the ONLY true power
and authority of the high priesthood was “to have the privilege of receiving the mysteries
of the kingdom of heaven, to have the heavens opened.”^52 The Book of Mormon record
would teach that, without a full knowledge of the mysteries of God, no man or woman
could make claim to any power and authority from God. Conversely, any who are true
messengers have a complete knowledge of the mysteries of God in full.^53
Christ mentioned the word “priest” twice while he visited the people of the ancient
American continent. The first was when he gave a prophecy of what was going to happen in
the latter days when the Gentiles receive the “fullness of my gospel” as given in the Bible
and the Book of Mormon:
And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day
when the Gentiles shall sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of
my gospel, and shall be lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations,
and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all
manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of
hypocrisy, and murders, and priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret
abominations; and if they shall do all those things, and shall reject the fulness
of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel
from among them.^54No Gentile nation of people upon the earth in the latter days is “lifted up in the
pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth” more