[Joseph Smith] Joseph sees Christ, Moses, Elias, and Elijah in the Kirtland Temple. (1)
Jesus Christ appears to Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the Kirtland Temple and accepts the temple. Moses, Elias, and Elijah also appear and commit priesthood keys to Joseph and Oliver. (See D&C 110.)1837, June (2)
[Lucy Mack Smith] The Savior, Moses, Elias, and Elijah come to the temple (D&C 110). (3)
Joseph Smith, Jr. later claimed that he and Oliver Cowdery were visited by Jesus Christ in the Kirtland Temple. Smith claimed that Moses, Elias, and Elijah also appeared to them and gave the two of them the "keys" to the gathering of Israel and the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham. (4)
[Revelations] Kirtland, Ohio. Doctrine and Covenants 110. Visitations of the Lord, who accepts the House of the Lord; Moses, Elias, Elijah who commit keys of gathering, gospel of Abraham, turning the hearts of fathers/children. (5)
-- Apr 6, 1836
Kirtland, Ohio. While with Sidney Rigdon and his brother Hyrum Smith, Joseph Smith participated in the bestowal of patriarchal blessings upon Amasa M. Lyman, Nathan Tanner, and the Prophets father, Joseph Smith Sr. (6)
-- Apr 7, 1836
[Knight, Newel] Left Kirtland for Clay County, Missouri, 7 April 1836; arrived 6 May. Appointed member of high council in Far West, Missouri. (7)
-- Apr 9, 1836
[Phelps, William Wines] Left Kirtland for Missouri 9 April 1836. (7)
-- Apr 16, 1836
Future-apostle Charles C. Rich describes his endowment ceremony-experience in the Kirtland Temple: "We then continued to fast and pray until the setting of the sun when we Broke Bread and Drank wine[.] we prophesied all night pronouncing blessings and cursings until the morning light[.] there was Great manifestations of the power of God . . . and I was filled with the spirit of prophesy and I was endued with power from on high." (8)
[Snow, Erastus] Departed from Kirtland 16 April 1836. (7)
-- Apr 19, 1836
[Wilford Woodruff] Called to the Second Quorum of the Seventy. (9)
-- Apr 25, 1836
Anti-Mormons in Van Buren County, Missouri, bullwhip a non-Mormon for refusing to tell where his Mormon acquaintances are. (8)
[Joseph Smith] Anti-Mormons in Van Buren County, Missouri, bullwhip a non-Mormon for refusing to tell where his Mormon acquaintances are. (10)
Footnotes:
1 - More Good Foundation, Timeline, http://www.prophetjosephsmith.org/joseph_smith_timeline
2 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Joseph Smith, Salt Lake City, Utah
3 - Proctor, Scott and Maurine Jensen, editors, History of Joseph Smith by His Mother: Revised and Enhanced
4 - Broadhurst, Dale R., Oliver Cowdery Chronology, http://olivercowdery.com/history/Cdychrn1.htm
5 - Kenny, Scott, "Doctrine and Covenants," http://saintswithouthalos.com/s/_dc.phtml
6 - BYU Studies Journal, volume 46, no. 4: A Chronology of the Life of Joseph Smith
7 - Cook, Lyndon W., The Revelations of the Prophet Joseph Smith: A Historical and Biographical Commentary of the Doctrine and Covenants, Seventy's Mission Bookstore, Provo UT, 1985
8 - On This Day in Mormon History, http://onthisdayinmormonhistory.blogspot.com
9 - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Wilford Woodruff, Salt Lake City, Utah
10 - Quinn, D. Michael, The Mormon Hierarchy: Origins of Power, Appendix 7: Selected Chronology of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1830-47"
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