Show Notes: D&C 14-17 Quotes and Notes
00:42 – Historical background of the Peter Whitmer Family.
18:17 – Endure to the end. Avoid imitations.
24:42 – David Whitmer remains true to his testimony of Book of Mormon, but the church did not meet his expectations.
34:25 – David Whitmer’s statements have inconsistencies.
42:09 – “His Last Word” interview.
50:55 – What are we going to do when our expectations aren’t met?
59:24 – The Three Witnesses describe seeing 5 relics in the stone box: Gold Plates, Breast Plate, Sword of Laban, Urim & Thummim, and Liahona. These Nephite relics represent an equivalent to the Israelite Ark of the Covenant.
1:06:00 – Relics of antiquity are evidence linking the ancient religious world with The Enlightenment and demonstrate the historicity of the text of the Book of Mormon.
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Thank you for your podcasts, they are so enlightening. Today while listening to episode 91, my mind kept turning to Oliver.
One thing that has really stuck with me about Oliver is what I read in Scott Faulring’s article, The Return of Oliver Cowdery. He wrote: On Sunday, 5 November 1848, Oliver Cowdery joined with the high priests and Pottawattamie High Council. in
the Kanesville Log Tabernacle…Orson Hyde addressed the group, noting that Cowdery was present and “wished to come back into the church”…Hyde requested that Oliver speak to the assembled council….
Although reluctant at first to speak, Cowdery did take the opportunity to express his personal feelings about his prolonged absence from the church….
He said:
I feel that I can honorably return….
I am out of the church. I know the door into the church, and I wish to become a member thro[ugh] the door. I wish to be a humble private member. I did not come here to seek honor.
As you know, he was subsequently baptized. What I find so compelling about Oliver’s statement is his reference to “the door.” The door is the Priesthood, in my opinion.
William McLellin tried to get Oliver and David to join a new religious organization. Oliver did not follow in the least degree. He eschewed Sidney Rigdon and James Strang’s groups. He did not seem swayed in the least by any break-offs and I think it was because he knew “the door.”
What sets Oliver apart from every other church history character is that he was the only one, excepting Joseph who was deceased, that had been ordained to the Aaronic and Melchizedek Priesthood’s by the laying on of angelic hands. He was the second elder. As powerful as his witness of the Book of Mormon is, his witness of the Priesthood is equally as powerful. David Whitmer clearly did not have that and neither did Martin. Oliver alone knew “the door.”