{"collection":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc82_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc82_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_mor_dc_dc82_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/dc82.htm","summary":"This is a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) canonized scripture, specifically a revelation recorded as received by Joseph Smith in Jackson County, Missouri in April 1832, preserved in the *History of the Church*. The text opens with collective forgiveness of sins among a named group of early church leaders, followed by warnings against continued transgression and the theological principle that greater spiritual light brings greater accountability. Its central commandment establishes a binding covenant among nine specific men \u2014 including Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and others \u2014 to jointly steward the financial and material affairs of both the Missouri and Ohio church communities. A distinctive feature is the text's articulation of a communal economic order: members are to hold \"equal claims on properties\" according to individual wants and needs, with surplus directed to a common \"Lord's storehouse\" for the whole church \u2014 an egalitarian, proto-communal arrangement the text frames as divine law. The revelation closes with the conditional promise that the \"kingdom\" belongs to this group permanently, contingent on their faithfulness, and warns that violations of the covenant will result in being \"delivered over to the buffetings of Satan.\" Readers interested in early Mormon economic theology, the Law of Consecration, or the historical tensions between utopian communalism and institutional church governance will find this document directly relevant.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 82. Revelation to Joseph Smith, Jackson County, Missouri, April 26, 1832.","tradition":"Sacred Texts: Mormons","translated_text":null,"word_count":768}