THE KEYS: It is the Right and Power of Presidency to Direct the Manner in which Priesthood is to be Used, and the Means by which the Door is opened for the Gospel cause.
The Covenants of the Lord cannot be fulfilled without the Keys.
The Restoration of the Priesthood AND the Keys is a SIGN that the Work Reserved for this, The Dispensation Of The Fullness Of Times, that the AUTHORITY and POWERS are given to OFFICIALLY PERFORM THE ORDINANCES in these Last Days, before the Second Coming of the Lord.
This is the Last Dispensation of the Gospel before the End. It's Purpose is to do the FINISHING WORK and to Organize the Kingdom on Earth in preparation for the Millennium.
Many Prophets of the Past who Held the Priesthood and the Keys HAVE ALREADY COME in this Dispensation and RESTORED the KEYS and POWERS and AUTHORITIES needed by His LATTER DAY PROPHETS and His Servants to conduct this important business.
These are the Prophets who HAVE COME and RESTORED THEIR KEYS and POWERS and AUTHORITY that THEY were IN CHARGE OF.
At the time of the Dedication of the First Temple in the Last 2000 years, and in this Last Dispensation of the Fullness of Times, the Lord Jesus Christ first appeared on April 3, 1836 along with Moses, Alias and Elijah. The Lord told The Prophet Joseph Smith that HE HAS ACCEPTED THIS HOUSE as HIS.
JOHN the BAPTIST, (Conferred the Aaronic Priesthood on the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery - Authority of Baptise).
PETER, JAMES and JOHN (They conferred the Higher Melchizedek Priesthood on the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdrey- The Authority to perform the Laying on of Hands and ALL other Functions of the Kingdom of God and hold the Keys to the Mysteries).
MICHAEL, (Who was Michael the Prince, the Archangel, Presiding High Priest under Christ over all the Earth in Priesthood Authority and the First Man on Earth. - Adam. He also, 3 years before his death, met with his righteous descendants in the Valley of Adam-Ondi-Ahman and will meet there again soon, just before the Great and Dreadful Day of the Lord. All the prophets and servants will be there and give an accounting to Adam and turn their Keys they held back to Adam and he will turn them back to Christ. Contrary to common tradition, we find from Modern Revelation, it is Michael who will sound the Trumpet of the First Resurrection in that Great and coming day, RATHER than GABRIEL).
(This is the Advantages of Revelation from Living Prophets.)
GABRIEL, (Who was Noah, second in Priesthood Authority next to Michael, came in Modern times and conferred the Keys of his dispensation upon the Prophet Joseph Smith).
RAPHAEL. (Who held the keys of his Dispensation while he was on the Earth and conferred those keys to the Prophet Joseph Smith.)
ELIJAH, (Who gave the Keys he had to the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery, on April 3, 1836 in the Kirkland Temple, the Keys to Revelation, ordinances, oracles, powers and endowments of the fullness of the Melchizedek Priesthood and of the Kingdom of God on Earth and to Perform ALL the Ordinances belonging to the Kingdom of God including turning the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children and the Hearts of the Children to the Fathers, (the Dead fathers to the Living children and the Living Children to their dead Ancestors - Performing their Genealogical Research and completing it by doing the Temple Ordinances for them, SEALING THOSE WHO DWELL ON EARTH to THOSE WHO DWELL IN HEAVEN.)
ELIAS, (He also appeared on April 3, 1836 in the Kirkland Temple and said:
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS 110: 12
12 After this, Elias appeared, and committed the dispensation of the gospel of Abraham, saying that in us and our seed all generations after us should be blessed.
MOSES, (Moses's Ministry was important to men NOW LIVING and his part in the RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS. (Acts 3: 19) On April 3, 1836 he came to the Kirkland Temple and committed the KEYS of the GATHERING of ISRAEL from the 4 quarters of the Earth and the Leading of the Lost Ten Tribes from the Land of the North. (Doctrine and Covenants 110: 11)
MORONI, (The Lord gave the privilege and power to Moroni to bring forth the records that he and other prophets from 600 B.C. to the time he had buried in 421 A.D. to light. This is because he HELD THE KEYS of the RECORD of the STICK of EPHRAIM (Doctrine and Covenants 27:5), and he REVEALED the Book of Mormon to the Prophet Joseph Smith on 21 September 1823 but he was not allowed to take them for 4 years. He had to meet each year on that date to be instructed on how the Kingdom of God was to be built and on the 21st of September 1827, he was allowed to take the Gold Plates, the Urim and Thummin and begin his work in the translation of the Book of Mormon, Another Testament of Jesus Christ which is the Companion Book of the Bible.)
Moroni's coming was a partial fulfilment of John's Vision:
REVELATION 14: 6-7
6 And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,
7 Saying with a loud voice, Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters.
ALL PRIESTHOOD AUTHORITY and KEYS are NOW ON THE EARTH and the KINGDOM of GOD here and GROWING.
These Prophets and many more from the times of old, the Prophet Joseph Smith has met and can describe them in detail when he was asked about them.
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