{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc43_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc43_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc43_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/dc43.htm","summary":"This is a canonized revelation from the Latter-day Saint (Mormon) scriptural tradition, recorded in 1831 and included in the Doctrine and Covenants (Section 43), presented as the direct voice of Jesus Christ speaking to early church elders. Its central concern is ecclesiastical authority: it establishes that only Joseph Smith holds the exclusive right to receive commandments and revelations for the church, and that any other claimant to such authority is not from God \u2014 a rule framed as protection against deception in a period when rival prophetic claims were emerging. The text then pivots to eschatological urgency, commanding the elders to go out and preach repentance to all nations because the Millennium is imminent, when Satan will be bound, the righteous transformed, and the wicked consigned to \"unquenchable fire.\" A notably distinctive claim is the chain-of-authority doctrine: revelation flows exclusively through one appointed prophet, and even he could only delegate that role rather than have it persist independently. The piece closes with a self-identification \u2014 \"I am Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world\" \u2014 reinforcing the first-person divine voice as the source of both the institutional rules and the apocalyptic warnings. Someone deciding whether to read further would find this most relevant if interested in early Mormon ecclesiology, prophetic authority claims, or 19th-century American millennial religious movements.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 43. Revelation through Joseph Smith, Kirtland, Ohio, February 1831.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":1166}