Wednesday, June 5, 2024

Wilford Woodruff Recording Brigham Young Teaching Contingencies to Jesus's Mortal Mission (February 16, 1847)

  

The man is the head & God of the woman, but let him act like a God in virteous principles & God like conversation, walk and deportment & such men will continue to gain influence & power and advance in glory to all eternity. But should they use there power in wickedness as a tyrant they soon will be called to render an account of their stewardship. if not found worthy they will be hurled down to perdition & their family & kingdom be given to another that is more worthy. Some say that a woman cannot be saved without a man, neither can a man without a woman. Br Joseph said he had taught the Twelve all that he knew concerning the order of the kingdom but the difficulty was they could not remember it as he told them, but when it was necessary they would not be at a loss for understanding; & I bear record to the truth of his word before God this day that I always had an understanding & evry thing was brought to my mind just as he taught them to us. All the ordinances of the Temple & building of the Alter &c. came to me just right when they were to be attended to & could we now know Br Hyde, Pratt & Taylor's feelings you would say that they could read a man through as soon as they cast there eyes upon him. The Apostle Paul while speaking of the Fathers & the Ancients said that thay without us could not be made perfect there was a lack in his day & still will be to all eternity untill the chain of that Priesthood is restored & evry spirit take a tabernacle that was fore ordained according to the dispensation of the will of God. I am entitled to the Keys of the Priesthood according to linage & blood, so is Brother H. C. Kimball & many others have taken Kingly power & grades of the Priesthood. this we would have taught in the Temple if time had permitted. Joseph Smith was entitled to the Keys of the Priesthood according to blood still he was the fourth son. But when we get anot[h]er Temple built then we will teach you concerning these things suffice it to say that I will extend the chain of the Pristhood back through the Apostolic dispensation to Father Adam just as soon as I can get a temple built. Jesus could have restored the order of the Pristhood in his day & brought in the Millenium if the people would have harkened to his instructions but they rebelled & would not, & it was for this cause that Jesus told them that all the blood that had been shed from righteous Abel down to Zechariah the Prophet should be required at there hands. (Wilford Woodruff, Journal, February 16, 1847)

 

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