{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc033_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc033_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc033_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/mor/dc/dc033.htm","summary":"This is a revelatory text from the Doctrine and Covenants, the canonical scripture of the Latter-day Saint tradition, presented as a direct divine address to two named missionaries, Ezra and Northrop. The passage commands them to preach repentance to a corrupt generation, using the urgent harvest metaphor\u2014\"the field is white already to harvest\" and \"it is the eleventh hour\"\u2014to frame missionary work as an eschatological emergency. It lays out the core LDS gospel message: faith, repentance, baptism by water, and the subsequent baptism of fire through the Holy Ghost. The text is distinctive in its first-person divine voice, its grounding of the new church's legitimacy (\"called forth out of the wilderness\"), and its explicit elevation of the Book of Mormon alongside \"holy scriptures\" as co-equal instruments of instruction. It closes with an imminent second-coming warning, urging the recipients to keep their \"lamps trimmed and burning\" in anticipation of the Bridegroom's quick return. Someone considering the full text would find it characteristic of early 19th-century American restorationist theology, blending biblical idiom with novel claims about priesthood, church authority, and living revelation.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Doctrine and Convenants: 33. Revelation through Joseph Smith to Ezra Thayre and Northrop Sweet, Fayette, New York, October 1830.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":536}