Official Declarations 1 & 2: Ongoing Revelation

Segment 1

Scriptures:
Articles of Faith 1:9 (Continuing revelation)
Official Declaration 1 (A manifesto ending the practice of polygamy)

Words of the General Authorities:
We're witnesses to a process of restoration…If you think the Church has been fully restored, you're just seeing the beginning. There is much more to come. Wait till next year. And then the next year. Eat your vitamin pills. Get your rest. It's going to be exciting. (Russell M. Nelson, “Latter-day Saint Prophet, Wife and Apostle Share Insights of Global Ministry”, Church Newsroom 30 October 2018)

The most important prophet, so far as we are concerned, is the one who is living in our day and age. This is the prophet who has today’s instructions from God to us. God’s revelation to Adam did not instruct Noah how to build the ark. Every generation has the need of the ancient scripture, plus the current scripture from the living prophet. (Ezra Taft Benson, “Jesus Christ—Gifts and Expectations”, BYU Speeches delivered on December 10, 1974)

I would say I would rather be shot dead, in the streets, or struck with lightning, than to desert my children, break my covenants, turn my wives into the street and desert them with whom I have made sacred covenants, deny my religion and dishonor God. (Wilford Woodruff, Journal, October 3, 1885)

I should have let all the temples go out of our hands; I should have gone to prison myself, and let every other man go there, had not the God of heaven commanded me to do what I did do. (Wilford Woodruff, “Remarks”, Cache Stake Conference held on November 1, 1891, as reported in the Deseret Weekly and recorded with Official Declaration 1)

I began to reflect: ‘How can I redeem my dead?” I have some three thousand names of the dead who have been baptized…and how can I get endowments for them?’ While praying to the Lord to show me how to redeem my dead, the Spirit of God rested upon me and the voice of the Spirit said to me, ‘Go and call upon the sons and daughters of Zion in St. George to come into the temple of the Lord and get their endowments for your dead, and it shall be acceptable to me’...This filled my soul with joy, and I saw that it opened a field as wide as eternity for the salvation of our dead and the redemption of man, that we might magnify our calling as saviors on Mount Zion. (Wilford Woodruff, “Autobiography 1882 Leaves from My Journal”, p. 104)

I, Wilford Woodruff went to the Temple of the Lord this morning and was Baptized for 100 persons who were dead including the signers of the Declaration of Independence… (Wilford Woodruff, Journal, August 21,1877)

Segment 2

Scriptures:
Official Declaration 2 (Priesthood blessings are extended to all worthy male members)

Study Helps:
Helvécio Martins’ story with President Kimball (Saints Volume 4, “Chapter 18: All the Blessings of the Gospel”)

Segment 6

Scriptures:
D&C 6:21-23 (Answers to prayers)

Words of the General Authorities:
At times we will have unanswered questions and feelings of being unimportant, discouraged, alone, and unseen. However, my friends, we must press forward with faith in Jesus Christ and remember His words:
“Let not your heart be troubled.”
“In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world.”
I am a witness to this reality and of the Savior’s promised blessing. (Peter M. Johnson, “The Power of Ministering to the One”, October 2025 General Conference)