Now, to be sure, there are times when
even though the Lord decrees that something shall be, those involved in
bringing it to pass are blocked from accomplishing the will of God. This was
the case with the prophesied temple that was to be erected in Jackson County,
Missouri. In modern revelation we are told by the Savior that when “I give a
commandment to any of the sons of men to do a work unto my name, and those sons
of men go with all their might and with all they have to perform that work, and
cease not their diligence, and their enemies come upon them and hinder them
from performing that work, behold, it behooveth me to require that work no more
at the hands of those sons of men, but to accept their offerings” (Doctrine and
Covenants 84:1-4; 124:49). (Robert L. Millet, Remember, Remember: Life-Changing
Truths from the Book of Mormon [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book, 2023], 9)