Doctrine and Covenants 128: 24

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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS

SECTION 128

24 Behold, the great ^aday of the Lord is at hand; and who can ^babide the day of his coming, and who can stand when he appeareth? For he is like a ^crefiner’s ^dfire, and like fuller’s soap; and he shall sit as a ^erefiner and purifier of silver, and he shall purify the sons of ^fLevi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an ^goffering in righteousness. Let us, therefore, as a church and a people, and as Latter-day Saints, offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness; and let us present in his holy temple, when it is finished, a book containing the ^hrecords of our dead, which shall be worthy of all acceptation.

Footnotes

24a	TG Day of the Lord.
b	Mal. 3: 2 (1-3). 2 But who may ^aabide the ^bday of his ^ccoming? and who shall ^dstand when he appeareth? for he is like a ^erefiner’s ^ffire, and like fullers’ ^gsoap:
c	TG Earth, Cleansing of. TG Jesus Christ, Second Coming.
d	Num. 11: 1 (1, 10). 1 And when the people ^acomplained, it displeased the Lord: and the Lord heard it; and his anger was kindled; and the ^bfire of the Lord burnt among them, and consumed them that were in the uttermost parts of the camp. D&C 35: 14. 14 And their arm shall be my arm, and I will be their ^ashield and their buckler; and I will gird up their loins, and they shall fight manfully for me; and their ^benemies shall be under their feet; and I will let ^cfall the ^dsword in their behalf, and by the ^efire of mine indignation will I preserve them. Moses 7: 34. 34 And the ^afire of mine ^bindignation is kindled against them; and in my hot displeasure will I send in the ^cfloods upon them, for my fierce anger is kindled against them.
e	Prov. 17: 3. 3 The ^afining pot is for silver, and the furnace for gold: but the Lord ^btrieth the ^chearts. Zech. 13: 9. 9 And I will bring the third part through the fire, and will ^arefine them as silver is refined, and will ^btry them as gold is ^ctried: they shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my ^dpeople: and they shall say, The Lord is my God. 3 Ne. 24: 2 (2-3). 2 But who may ^aabide the day of his coming, and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he is like a ^brefiner’s fire, and like fuller’s soap.
f	Deut. 10: 8. 8 ¶ At that time the Lord ^aseparated the tribe of ^bLevi, to ^cbear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to ^dbless in his name, unto this day. 3 Ne. 24: 3. 3 And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; and he shall ^apurify the ^bsons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may ^coffer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. D&C 13: 1. 1 Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah I ^aconfer the ^bPriesthood of Aaron, which holds the ^ckeys of the ministering of ^dangels, and of the gospel of ^erepentance, and of ^fbaptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth, until the sons of ^gLevi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in ^hrighteousness. D&C 124: 39. 39 Therefore, verily I say unto you, that your ^aanointings, and your washings, and your ^bbaptisms for the dead, and your ^csolemn assemblies, and your ^dmemorials for your ^esacrifices by the sons of Levi, and for your ^foracles in your most ^gholy places wherein you receive conversations, and your statutes and judgments, for the beginning of the revelations and foundation of Zion, and for the glory, honor, and endowment of all her municipals, are ordained by the ordinance of my holy house, which my people are always commanded to build unto my holy name.
g	D&C 84: 31. 31 Therefore, as I said ^aconcerning the sons of Moses—for the sons of Moses and also the sons of Aaron shall offer an acceptable ^boffering and sacrifice in the house of the Lord, which house shall be built unto the Lord in this generation, upon the consecrated ^cspot as I have appointed— TG Sacrifice.
h	Num. 1: 18. 18 And they assembled all the congregation together on the first day of the second month, and they declared their ^apedigrees after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, by their polls. D&C 127: 9 (5-10). 9 And again, let all the ^arecords be had in order, that they may be put in the archives of my holy temple, to be held in remembrance from generation to generation, saith the Lord of Hosts. TG Genealogy and Temple Work. TG Mission of Latter-day Saints. TG Salvation for the Dead.