Doctrine and Covenants, Connected
Doctrine and Covenants 86 Let the wheat and the tares grow together
On December 6, 1832, Joseph Smith recorded that he was working on a revision of the Bible and received a revelation explaining Jesus’s parable of the wheat and the tares. His journal does not tell us whether he was working on the New Testament or the Old Testament that day. Sidney Rigdon wrote the revelation as Joseph dictated it. The revelation traces the Church’s history from the apostles through a future harvest, then speaks to servants whose priesthood had continued through their family lineages.
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Doctrine and Covenants 86
- Verily, thus saith the Lord unto you my servants, concerning the parable of the wheat and of the tares:
- Behold, verily I say, the field was the world, and the apostles were the sowers of the seed;
- And after they have fallen asleep the great persecutor of the church, the apostate, the whore, even Babylon, that maketh all nations to drink of her cup, in whose hearts the enemy, even Satan, sitteth to reign—behold he soweth the tares; wherefore, the tares choke the wheat and drive the church into the wilderness. (1 connected talk)
- But behold, in the last days, even now while the Lord is beginning to bring forth the word, and the blade is springing up and is yet tender— (2 connected talks)
- Behold, verily I say unto you, the angels are crying unto the Lord day and night, who are ready and waiting to be sent forth to reap down the fields; (1 connected talk)
- But the Lord saith unto them, pluck not up the tares while the blade is yet tender (for verily your faith is weak), lest you destroy the wheat also. (1 connected talk)
- Therefore, let the wheat and the tares grow together until the harvest is fully ripe; then ye shall first gather out the wheat from among the tares, and after the gathering of the wheat, behold and lo, the tares are bound in bundles, and the field remaineth to be burned. (1 connected talk)
- Therefore, thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers— (4 connected talks)
- For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God— (5 connected talks)
- Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began. (6 connected talks)
- Therefore, blessed are ye if ye continue in my goodness, a light unto the Gentiles, and through this priesthood, a savior unto my people Israel. The Lord hath said it. Amen. (4 connected talks)
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