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Savior Visits Kirtland Temple, April 3, 1836The Savior appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery at the Kirtland Temple. Moses, Elijah, and Elias also appear and gave priesthood keys to Joseph Smith. Found in Joseph Smith’s 1835-1836 Diary.
and bowed himself
with O. Cowdery, in solemn, but silent prayer to the
Most High. After rising from prayer the following vision was
opened to both of them.
The vail was
taken from their minds and the eyes of their understandings
were opened. They saw the Lord standing upon the breast work
of the pulpit before them, and under his feet was a
paved work of pure gold, in color like amber: his eyes
were as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was like
the pure snow, his countenance shone above the brightness of
the sun, and his voice was as the sound of the rushing
of great waters, even the Voice of Jehovah, saying, I
am the first and the last, I am he who liveth, I am he
who was slain. I am your Advocate with the Father. Behold
your sins are forgiven you. You are clean before me,
therefore, lift up your heads and rejoice, let the
hearts of your brethren rejoice and let the hearts of
all my brethren [people] rejoice, who have with their
might, built this house to my name. For behold I have
accepted this house and my name shall be here; and I
will manifest myself to my people, in mercy, in this
House, yea I will appear unto my servants and speak unto
them with mine own voice, if my people will keep my
commandments and do not pollute this Holy House. Yea
the hearts of thousands and tens of thousands shall
greatly rejoice in consequence of the blessings which
shall be poured out, and the endowment with which my
servants have already been endowed and shall hereafter
be endowed in this House. And the fame of this House
shall spread to foreign lands, and this is the
beginning of the blessing, which shall
Kirtland Temple VideoSavior Visits Kirtland Temple, April 3, 1836The Savior appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery at the Kirtland Temple. Moses, Elijah, and Elias also appear and gave priesthood keys to Joseph Smith. Found in Joseph Smith’s 1835-1836 Diary.
3 April 1836 Sunday
[Kirtland Temple]
He [Joseph Smith]
attended meeting in the Lords House, assisted the other
Presidents of the Church in seating the congregation and
then became an attentive listener to the preaching from the
Stand. T. B. Marsh & D. W. Patten spoke in the A.M. to
an attentive audience of about 1000 persons. In the P.M. he
assisted the other Presidents in distributing the elements
of the Lords Supper to the church, receiving them form the
Hands "Twelve" whose privilige it was to officiate in the
sacred desk this day. After having performed this service to
his brethren, he retired to the pulpit, the vails being dropped,
Joseph Smith Sees Elijah in Kirtland TempleGary Smith, 1988
"Elijah the
prophet, who was taken to heaven without tasting death,
stood before us" (D&C 110:13).
The Temple at Kirtland, OhioThomas Brown Holmes Stenhouse, 1873"I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house" (D&C 110:7).Christ Appearing to Joseph Smith and Oliver CowderyRobert Barrett, 1986"His eyes were as a flame of fire; the hair of his head was white like the pure snow" (D&C 110:3).Christ Appearing in the Kirtland TempleGary Smith, 1977
'His countenance
shone above the brightness of the sun" (D&C
110:3).
Jesus Christ Appearing to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland TempleWalter Rane, 2003"We saw the Lord standing upon the breastwork of the pulpit" (D&C 110:2).Savior Visits Kirtland Temple, April 3, 1836The Savior appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery at the Kirtland Temple. Moses, Elijah, and Elias also appear and gave priesthood keys to Joseph Smith. Found in Joseph Smith’s 1835-1836 Diary.
be poured out upon the
heads of my people. even so Amen. After this vision closed,
the Heavens were again opened unto them and Moses appeared
before them and committed unto them the keys of the
gathering of Israel from the four parts of the Earth and the
leading of the ten tribes from the Land of the North. After
this Elias appeared and committed the dispensation of the
gospel of Abraham, saying, that in them and their seed all
generations after them should be blessed. After this vision
had closed, another great and glorious vision burst upon
them, for Elijah, the Prophet, who was taken to Heaven
without tasting death, also stood before them, and said,
behold the time has fully come which was spoken of by the
Mouth of Malachi, testifying, that he should be sent before
the great and dreadful day of the Lord come, to turn the
hearts of the Fathers to the children, and the children to
the fathers, lest the whole earth be smitten with a curse.
Therefore, the keys of this dispensation are committed into
your hands, and by this ye may know that the great and the
dreadful day of the Lord is near, even at the doors.
