God took the Mel. PH away by January 1841: D&C 124

[_sock puppet]

It sounds like D&C 124 was JSJr's concoction to scare the Mormon gaggle into building big edifices to JSJr and to quell dissension in the ranks. 'God will reject you (and your dead) if you do not.'

[_jon]

If God took the MelP away in 1841, when did he officially reinstate it?

[_just me]

If God took the MelP away in 1841, when did he officially reinstate it?

There is no record that he ever did. In fact, according to D&C he should have rejected the church and its dead for not completing the Nauvoo Temple and Nauvoo House.

[_jon]

What was the date of the original restoration of the Melk. PH?

[_just me]

What was the date of the original restoration of the Melk. PH?

Well, that's kind of a funny thing. We don't got that either. I think there are some speculations, though.

[_jon]

Maybe it's in the drawer in the kitchen along with the documents pertaining to the revelation explaining that blacks shouldn't have it...(Well, not before 1978 anyway).

[_CSA]

In it we learn that God has taken away the fulness of the priesthood and that the Saints have to do a couple things to earn it back. There are promises made and from the historical record we can see that the Saints did not keep their end of the bargain. We should assume that God did keep his end of the bargain, anything less would cause him to cease to be God.

The Melchizedek Priesthood was already restored but what was lacking was those things which are received through the Priesthood in the temple. Nothing was taken away from those saints of the restored gospel.

[_just me]

In it we learn that God has taken away the fulness of the priesthood and that the Saints have to do a couple things to earn it back. There are promises made and from the historical record we can see that the Saints did not keep their end of the bargain. We should assume that God did keep his end of the bargain, anything less would cause him to cease to be God.

The Melchizedek Priesthood was already restored but what was lacking was those things which are received through the Priesthood in the temple. Nothing was taken away from those saints of the restored gospel.

We still have the problem of the "endowment" being "restored" outside of the temple and polygamist marriages being performed outside of the temple.

So, what exactly was supposed to be "received through the Priesthood in the temple" if not those things?

Also, the Nauvoo Temple and Nauvoo House were still never completed, leading to God's rejection.