-- Dec 3, 1832
William E Mclellin: Excommunicated 3 Dec. 1832 (1)
Jesse Gause (former member of the First Presidency) excommunicated. (2)
[Joseph Smith] First counselor Jesse Gause is excommunicated, the first general authority permanently removed from office. (3)
-- Dec 3, 1832 - 18 March 1833
[1st Presidency Changes] Joseph Smith, Jr. Sidney Rigdon (never ordained an apostle) Jesse Gause (never ordained an apostle) excommunicated (4)
-- Dec 4, 1832
[Joseph:] this day I been unwell done but litle been at home all day regulated some things this Evening feel better in my mind then I have for a few days back Oh Lord deliver [DEL: out :DEL] thy servent out of temtations and fill his heart with wisdom and understanding PWJS, 22. (5)
-- Dec 6, 1832
D&C 86 (Kirtland): Parable of the apostasy. The Lord is sending out the word now and blades begin sprout. Angels want to harvest but the Lord restrains them until the harvest is fully ready. The priesthood came down through history in the Prophet's ancestors, hidden from the world. Joseph is to restore all and be a savior to the world. (5)
The Mormons still profess to talk with angels, visit the third heaven, and converse with Christ face to face.-Their form of baptism is changed to "I, John the Messenger, baptize thee" &c. The gift of imparting the Holy Ghost is yet professed.
Ohio Atlas and Lorain County Gazette, Dec. 6, 1832.
They pretend to have discovered where the Ark of the Covenant, Aaron's rod, the pot of Manna, &c., &c., now remain hid. At no distant period, they expect Christ will re-appear to live and reign on the earth a thousand years.
We believe their society numbers something more than 100 souls in this County, many of whom intend removing to Mount Zion in the Spring. (5)
[Joseph:] translating and received a revelation explaining the Parable the wheat and the tears &c- PWJS, 23; Matthew 13:18-43; D&C 86 (5)
[Joseph Smith] Kirtland, Ohio. Joseph Smith received Doctrine & Covenants 86, a revelation explaining the parable of the wheat and tares. (6)
[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 86. Parable of the wheat and the tares: Satan rules through Babylon the whore. Apostles have spread the seed and it begins to grow but is still tender. Priesthood passes to one generation to the next. Priesthood remains until all is restored. Saviors to Israel through the priesthood.
Kirtland Revelations Book heading: A Revelation explaining the parable of the Wheet & <the> Tears.
Not printed in the Book of Commandments.
1835 Doctrine and Covenants 6 heading: Revelation explaining the parable of the wheat and tares December 1832. / ON PRIESTHOOD.
Kirtland Revelations Book. (7)
-- Dec 18, 1832
[Oliver Cowdery] Oliver Cowdery married Elizabeth Ann Whitmer, daughter of Peter Whitmer, Sr., in , , MO. (8)
-- Dec 19, 1832
Samuel H. Smith and Orson Hyde return from their mission to New York, Massachusetts, and Maine. (5)
[Smith, William B] Ordained elder 19 December 1832, by Lyman E. Johnson. Two children: Mary Jane and Caroline. (9)
Footnotes:
1 - D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 6, Biographical Sketches of General Officers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47
2 - http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=dgv482t8_0d5hdn5cv
3 - D. Michael Quinn, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
4 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)#Chronology_of_the_First_Presidency
5 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/dirs/d_c.phtml
6 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
7 - http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
8 - http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
9 - Lyndon W. Cook, The Revelation of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
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