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Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 90. Revelation to Joseph Smith, given Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1833.

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This is a canonized Latter-day Saint revelation, recorded as Section 90 of the Doctrine and Covenants, presented as direct divine speech to Joseph Smith in Kirtland, Ohio in 1833. Its primary content is an organizational directive: it confirms Smith, Sidney Rigdon, and Frederick G. Williams as co-holders of the "keys of the kingdom" and instructs them in their joint presidency over the early church and its School of the Prophets. The revelation outlines an eschatological missionary sequence — the gospel spreading first to Gentiles, then to Jews, culminating in a day when every person hears the gospel in their own language through divinely ordained ministers. Beyond theology, it descends into concrete administrative matters: housing arrangements for church leaders and Smith's elderly father, instructions to the bishop to find a financially capable agent to manage church debts, guidance on keeping households small, and specific direction that a woman named Vienna Jaques receive funds to travel to "the land of Zion" and receive an inheritance there. A notably distinctive feature is its blunt expression of divine displeasure with named individuals — William E. McLellin, Sidney Gilbert, and the bishop — while simultaneously reassuring that Zion will ultimately be purified rather than abandoned.

Mormon Doctrine & Covenants 90. Revelation to Joseph Smith, given Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1833.

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