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Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 52. Revelation through Joseph Smith, to the elders of the Church, Kirtland, Ohio, June 7, 1831.

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This is a Latter-day Saint (Mormon) scriptural text — a purported divine revelation received by Joseph Smith in June 1831, recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants tradition. Its primary content is a detailed set of travel and missionary instructions directing named elders of the early LDS Church to journey in pairs from Ohio to Missouri, preaching and baptizing along the way. A central claim is that Missouri is the promised "land of inheritance" for the covenant people — a distinctive Mormon theological belief that a specific American geography holds eschatological significance. The text also provides criteria for discerning authentic spiritual gifts from Satanic counterfeits (contrite spirit, meek language, obedience to ordinances), warns specific individuals by name against spiritual danger, and conditions all promised blessings on faithfulness. Someone deciding whether to read it would find it most useful as a primary source for early Mormon ecclesiology, communal organization, and the theological geography of Zion — rather than as a devotional or argumentative text, since it reads as administrative directive rather than doctrinal exposition.

Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 52. Revelation through Joseph Smith, to the elders of the Church, Kirtland, Ohio, June 7, 1831.

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