KEY SECTIONS OF THE

SECOND BOOK OF COMMANDMENTS




Introduction



Preface Revelation - Received March 30, 1965

Section 1 - Received February or March, 1961

Section 19 - Received January, 1965

Section 24 - Received February 11, 1975

Section 26 - Received October 29, 1978

Sections 22 and 23 – On the nature of God

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The Prophet Joseph Smith on

the Principle of Revelation:


"Salvation cannot come without

revelation, it is in vain for

anyone to minister without it."

  8 August 1839


"Where there is a prophet, a

priest or a righteous man unto

whom God gives His Oracles,

there is the Kingdom of God;

and where the Oracles of God

are not, there the Kingdom of

God is not."

 22 January 1843


"Jesus in his teaching says upon

this rock I will build My church

and the gates of hell shall not

prevail against it.  What rock?

 Revelation."

22 January 1843


"A man is saved no faster than

he gets knowledge, for if he

does not get knowledge he will

be brought into captivity by

some evil power in the other

world-- as evil spirits will have

more knowledge, and

consequently more power, than

many men who are on the

earth.   Hence, it needs

Revelation to assist us and give

us knowledge of the things of

God."

 10 April 1844


"We must have revelations

then, and we can see that the

doctrine of revelation as far

transcends the doctrine of no

revelation as knowledge is

above ignorance; for one truth

revealed from heaven is worth

all the sectarian notions in

existence."  

 10 March 1844