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Organizational Issues in the Kingdom of God

by Art Bulla

Tue, Jul 12, 2011

8 Behold, mine house is a house of order, saith the Lord God, and not a house of confusion.
9 Will I accept of an offering, saith the Lord, that is not made in my name?
10 Or will I receive at your hands that which I have not appointed?
11 And will I appoint unto you, saith the Lord, except it be by law, even as I and my Father ordained unto you, before the world was?
12 I am the Lord thy God; and I give unto you this commandment--that no man shall come unto the Father but by me or by my word, which is my law, saith the Lord.
14 For whatsoever things remain are by me; and whatsoever things are not by me shall be shaken and destroyed.

(D&C 132:8-14)

Steadying the ark without authority: men must be called by the spirit of prophecy through the medium of the Lord's appointment, which is after the order of Melchizedek, and then ordained to act in his name, or their sacrifice is not acceptable as Cain's was not. Abel offered sacrifice properly. Then all intelligence is free to act in the sphere and calling appointed to it, in the proper order.

30 All truth is independent in that sphere in which God has placed it, to act for itself, as all intelligence also; otherwise there is no existence.

(D&C 93:30)

But there is order in the Kingdom of God. Men must not "run ahead" in what they think may be a "good work". Cohesion is paramount and disparate impulses that are not authorized by the Holy Order of God create confusion. The goal of Zion is to become of "one heart and mind", and to "see eye to eye", acheiving "the unity of the faith" to move as one man coordinated and dictated from above and not below.

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"But we ask, does it remain for a people who never had faith enough to call down one scrap of revelation from heaven, and for all they have now are indebted to the faith of another people...does it remain for them to say how much God has spoken and how much He has not spoken?" Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Two 1834-37 Pg.60
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section Six 1843-44 Pg.365
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"All men are liars who say they are of the true Church without the revelations of Jesus Christ and the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which is after the order of the Son of God." Joseph Smith; TPJS p. 376
"He that can mark the power of Omnipotence, inscribed upon the heavens, can also see God's own handwriting in the sacred volume: and he who reads it oftenest will like it best, and he who is acquainted with it, will know the hand wherever he can see it...." (T.P.J.S., p. 56)

· 10 For do I now persuade men, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if I yet pleased men, I should not be the servant of Christ.
11 But I certify you, brethren, that the gospel which was preached of me is not after man.
12 For I neither received it of man, neither was I taught it, but by the revelation of Jesus Christ. (New Testament | Galatians 1:10 - 12)