This episode covers the dedicatory prayer that kicked off the week-long dedication process of the house of the Lord in Kirtland.

This episode covers various events in the fall of 1835, including two revelations that are included in the current D&C as well as others that are not.

The last two sections of the 1835 Doctrine and Covenants were not revelations, but rather were statements of policy and belief. One has been disavowed as a non-scriptural usurpation that was surreptitiously added to the...

We wrap up our review of Lectures 6 and 7, which cover the law of sacrifice and the effects of faith. As with the other lectures, they teach principles that contradict those of the modern...

These lectures the characteristics and attributes of God, many of which pose a problem for the modern LDS God.

In this episode we review the first two lectures that were delivered in the school of the elders. Joseph considered these to contain the important elements of the doctrine of Christ and they remained in...

Although an 1829 revelation spoke about calling twelve men as apostles, it wasn’t until 1835 that they were called. We discuss the aspostolic commission they were given and how that differs from what the men...

We start with a conference in September 1834 that commissions Joseph, Oliver, Sidney, and Frederick to arrange the items of doctrine of Jesus Christ, which arrangement would become the Lectures on Faith. We then discuss...

Joseph joins an expedition back to Independence and then receives a revelation detailing what the church needs to do before Zion can be redeemed. Included in that is the calling of 15 people to return...

Section 104 provides instructions on how to dismantle the United Firm as a collective endeavor while continuing operations of the mercantile and literary firms. In it the Lord says the covenant was broken through covetousness...