Today I will discuss how they are used
keys of the kingdom, and where they came from,
who currently owns them and what their future.
The sacred story begins in the spring of 1829, and
memorable place in the middle of May. The prophet
the Lord is in the twenty-fourth year of his
mortal existence, and dictated to his scribe scripture. The
mentioned the sacred word baptism, without which no man
can see the kingdom of heaven does not even enter it.
The Spirit of the Lord rests upon the seer and his scribe.
Want baptism with the same anxiety that the hungry
forages. Divine Providence guides them to a place
held on the banks of the Susquehanna River near Harmony,
Pennsylvania. They pour their soul to God, the same who had
sent his Son, without blemish, to be baptized to serve
example to all men.
Then the miracle takes place. The heavens open, and a
angel descends from the celestial heights to communicate with their
fellow servants on earth. This is John the Baptist, a
risen, to which Herod had beheaded in 1800
years ago in the fetid precincts of the prison.
This is the same John who, being the only child of a priest
Zechariah and Elizabeth, had been ordered by an angel to
early age of eight days to overthrow the kingdom of the Jews.
John himself who turned Jews in Bethabara
seeking the cleansing power of baptism. It was then that the
beloved Baptist to fulfill all righteousness, plunged the
the Son of God in the murky waters of a river of Palestine.
The same John who saw the heavens opened and the Holy Spirit
down with the serenity of a dove and rest on the
characters about which the divine voice said below
"This is my beloved Son in whom I have pleasure." (Matthew
3:17).
With the glory of a resurrected, and in the name of the Messiah
for which he had experienced the death of a martyr gives his
mortal friends Aaronic Priesthood and the keys to the
ministering of angels and of baptism by immersion for the
referral sins. (D & C 13).
For the first time in nearly 1,700 years, mortals, acting
in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ can minister for
men for their salvation. The time is approaching when the
dismal and gloomy darkness to give way to rip the light
heavenly light will come to our planet immersed in
ignorance.
But this is just the beginning of the grand design. Other
messengers descend from the realms of light and glory. Peter
James and John, who at the time held the priesthood and
keys to chairing the earthly kingdom,
visit to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery.
These apostles of old, when mortals were
friends and confidants of the Lord Jesus Christ, these spirits
chosen who ate and drank with him after he rose
from the dead, the real witnesses who died that
all may live, are doing something wonderful.
gives the new prophet and accompanying the
priesthood after the Order of the Son of God, who remains
as a priest forever. The Melchizedek Priesthood
is the highest order and most sacred that can be granted to
fatal now or in the future. Includes, and always included,
power and authority of the sacred ministry.
Along with him, the brave death, very soon,
divine command, reorganized the church and kingdom of God in
land, certain keys are of paramount importance. Are
keys of the kingdom through which they obtain the power of
organize, chair, governing and regulating land, which is The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
also receive the keys of the dispensation of
fullness of time, the glorious era of restoration and
renewal, which means to bring God
in Christ, the age of revelation, and gifts, and miracles,
in which he carried out the restoration of all things,
which God hath spoken by the mouth of his holy prophets who have been
since ancient times. (D & C 27:12-13, 81:2).
Having been commissioned in this way, and being
holders gospel of salvation, can establish
again the kingdom of God on earth and preach again
gospel around the world and all peoples. The kingdom
set on April 6, 1830, and from that moment all
faithful members of the Church have dedicated their time, talents and
means for the truth to the other children of our Father
Heaven.
But even that's not all. Other keys were delivered. In
a wonderful day in April 1836, came Moses, Elijah and
Elijah, each bringing their respective
dispensing keys and the power they had exercised when
fatal. On a day similar to those of a thousand other wonderful
eight years earlier at the Mount of Transfiguration.
(Matthew 17:1-13).
then, in the snowy peaks of a mountain, after
that the Father had spoken from the cloud to pass that Moses and
Elijah, both taken to heaven without tasting death, returned in
their physical bodies, a temple not made hands, and
awarded to Peter, James and John the keys and powers
had at that time.
And in the same way, those illustrious characters return to
land these days. This time, built a temple
tithes and sacrifices of the saints, these same prophets of
old minister and now as resurrected beings
glorified, restore the keys and powers they possessed.
Moses, who invested in the majesty of the priesthood of
Melchizedek captive out of Egypt to Israel to take him
promised Palestine, brings back those same keys. These keys allow mortals to collect the lost sheep of
found in Egypt in the world and put them into
promised Zion, where the scales of darkness slave
fall from his eyes. These keys are commissioned to those who possess
to pick up throughout Israel, including the ten tribes,
all nations of the earth, and, as I said the word
prophetic, take them one by one and two at the mountains
's house Lord, to be endowed with power from
high.
Elijah again brought the gospel of Abraham, the great convention
Abrahamic by which the faithful receive promises of
posterity eternal promises that through marriage
his posterity eternal heaven will be as numerous as the sands
the beach and the stars of heaven. Elijah gives the promise, the
in ancient times by Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
that modern man and his descendants all
generations are blessed.
And now we offer the blessings of Abraham, Isaac and
Jacob to all who wish to receive them.
Elijah brought back the keys of power
sealing, the authority that allows men to live
now, like Peter in the old , seal on earth
and their deeds are sealed forever in heaven. (D &
C 110:11-16).
With the coming of Elijah the Prophet baptisms
performed on earth are valid for eternity.
literally allow us to be members of the earthly kingdom, the
which is the Church, and also belong to the celestial kingdom is the
divine glory where God and Christ dwell .
And then, over time, there will be "a union
eternal complete and perfect, and a chain of
dispensations, keys, powers and glories ... since the days of
Adam to the present time. "(D & C 128:18).
In the meridian of time, Jesus Christ commanded the Twelve
on the shores of Capernaum and gave them the keys to the kingdom to Peter,
James and John on the holy mountain, and later gave these
same keys to all the apostles. (Matthew 18:18). In our dispensation, the Melchizedek Priesthood
restored in 1829, was ordered some men to the Holy
Apostolate in February 1835, several keys were in
moments, notably the April 3, 1836, and this
continued until all the rivers of the past led to the
ocean the present and the mortal man possessed all the keys and
powers that were granted to men in the past,
from Adam to the present.
As a highlight, all the keys of the kingdom will give
the Twelve in the winter of 1844. Then they get what
revelations called the fullness of the priesthood, along with
the full power to confer eternal men.
they are properly invested and allowed, the
Prophet tells Twelve
"I have sealed upon your heads all the keys of the kingdom.
I seal upon you every key, power and principle that
I have found heaven. Now, no matter where I go or what
I can do, the kingdom rests on you. But
Apostles of the Lamb of God, my brothers, on your
shoulders the kingdom rests, and now you have to join your
shoulders and give momentum. If you do not be condemned. "
(Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, sel. By G. Homer Durham,
Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1946, pág.72).
And so was fulfilled the word of God in which the
Lord had earlier told the Twelve
"For you, the Twelve, and those of First
Presidency, who are appointed with you to be
your directors and officers have been given the power of this
priesthood, for the last days and the last time in
which holds the dispensation of the fullness of
times.
"power you have, together with all those who have
received a dispensation at any time, from the
beginning of creation;
For, verily, I say, the keys of the dispensation,
which you received, have fallen from their parents, and
finally have been sent from heaven to you. "(D & C 112:30-32). And so, also established the system of the Lord
for succession to the presidency. The Keys of the Kingdom of God,
the rights and powers of the presidency through
which governs the earthly kingdom, which first revealed
from heaven given by the spirit of revelation to each
man who is ordained Apostle while section to be
member of the Twelve.
But since the keys they give you the right to
chair can only be exercised in its fullness a man at a time.
This person is always the senior Apostle,
Apostle president, the presiding high priest, Elder
president. Only he has the authority to direct
other guide, all are committed to follow.
Therefore, although each of the Twelve has the
keys, the exercise only to a certain limit, until one reaches
be to seniority, making it the Lord's Anointed
on Earth.
In conclusion, then, when Joseph Smith, in the hands of
evil men and murderers, exhale the last breath, Brigham
Young, being the most senior Apostle the kingdom
land automatically goes to preside.
The next breath of Brigham Young is the fan of
to the lungs of the pre-anointed servant
Lord. Do not spend more time than the blink of an eye in
that the Church is no presiding officer.
When President Kimball is called to inform their
work as large and successful ministry, the keys will
other Apostle instantly that the Lord has chosen. And
so divine succession system will continue to
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the clouds of glory to reign
personally upon the earth.
We need not fear the future. This is the work of God;
is his kingdom, and government affairs at will.
Keys, having been given to man on earth,
are now in the hands of those He has chosen.
As I know that God lives and that Jesus Christ is true, and
the truth will prevail, I testify that this work will roll fill hastaque the whole earth, and until the knowledge of God
cover the earth as the waters cover the sea.
I give this testimony in my behalf and on behalf of all
the faithful elders of the kingdom, and on behalf of all holy
sisters who remain at his side so bravely, and
everything I do in the sacred name of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Amen.
