1. Kirtland Endowment

2. Kirtland Endowment within the Big Picture
Gordon B. Hinckley: “We must ever keep before us the big picture, while not neglecting the details.” (Ensign, Nov. 1983, 51)
Keep before you the big picture, for this cause is as large as all mankind and as broad as all eternity. (Ensign, May 1982, 46)
Seeing the “forest” and the “tree” within the forest.

3. Kirtland Endowment--Background

4. Kirtland Endowment--Background
June 1830—Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery begin the new translation of the Bible –Now called the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)

5. Kirtland Endowment--Background
June 1830—Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery begin the new translation of the Bible –Now called the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
November –December 7, 1830—Moses 6 is given: the first chapter of the restoration of the story of Enoch

6. Kirtland Endowment--Background
June 1830—Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery begin the new translation of the Bible –Now called the Joseph Smith Translation (JST)
November –December 7, 1830—Moses 6 is given: the first chapter of the restoration of the story of Enoch
Moses 6:58-66—Enoch teaches of the spiritual rebirth of Adam and Eve; he also states that they entered “the order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years” (i.e., temple ordinances; there is no evidence that Joseph Smith comprehended this important truth at this point)

7. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Enoch states that after becoming spiritually reborn and entering into the “order” of the Son of God, the Lord said: “Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons” (Moses 6:68)

8. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Enoch states that after becoming spiritually reborn and entering into the “order” of the Son of God, the Lord said: “Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons” (Moses 6:68)
Moses 7:1—Enoch states that Adam taught these things to his posterity: “many have believed and become the sons of God, and many have believed not”.

9. Kirtland Endowment--Background
We must remember that because of the Fall of Adam, man are banished from the presence of God—
Alma— “the fall had brought upon all mankind a spiritual death They were cut off from the presence of the Lord, it was expedient that mankind should be reclaimed from this spiritual death” (Al. 42:9)
“man became lost forever, yea, they became fallen man” (Al. 42:6)

10. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Enoch states that after becoming spiritually reborn and entering into the “order” of the Son of God, the Lord said: “Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons” (Moses 6:68)
Moses 7:1—Enoch states that Adam taught these things to his posterity: “many have believed and become the sons of God, and many have believed not”.
Beginning of December, Sidney Rigdon came to New York to see the Prophet Joseph Smith.

11. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Enoch states that after becoming spiritually reborn and entering into the “order” of the Son of God, the Lord said: “Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons” (Moses 6:68)
Moses 7:1—Enoch states that Adam taught these things to his posterity: “many have believed and become the sons of God, and many have believed not”.
Beginning of December, Sidney Rigdon came to New York to see the Prophet Joseph Smith.
Dec 7, Joseph Smith received a revelation in which Sidney is called to assist Joseph Smith in the work of restoration (D&C 35)

12. Kirtland Endowment--Background
D&C 35:2: I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father is one in me, that we may be one.

13. Kirtland Endowment--Background
D&C 35:2: I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father is one in me, that we may be one.
Sidney is called to become Joseph Smith’s scribe (D&C 35) and they begin immediately.

14. Kirtland Endowment--Background
D&C 35:2: I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father is one in me, that we may be one.
Sidney is called to become Joseph Smith’s scribe (D&C 35) and they begin immediately.
Moses 7 received during Dec 1830: the rest of the story of Enoch.

15. Kirtland Endowment--Background
D&C 35:2: I am Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who was crucified for the sins of the world, even as many as will believe on my name, that they may become the sons of God, even one in me as I am one in the Father, as the Father is one in me, that we may be one.
Sidney is called to become Joseph Smith’s scribe (D&C 35) and they begin immediately.
Moses 7 received during Dec 1830: the rest of the story of Enoch.
Moses 7 tells of Enoch building a city of Zion in the midst of and extremely wicked world.

16. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Moses 7:18– “And the Lord called his people ZION, because they were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in righteousness; and there was no poor among them.”—This becomes the pattern for the early Church!

17. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Brigham Young: “We have no business here other than to build up and establish the Zion of God. It must be done according to the will and law of God [see D&C 105:5], after that pattern and order by which Enoch built up and perfected the former-day Zion, which was taken away to heaven, hence the saying went abroad that Zion had fled [see Moses 7:69]. By and by it will come back again, and as Enoch prepared his people to be worthy of translation, so we, through our faithfulness, must prepare ourselves to meet Zion from above when it shall return to earth, and to abide the brightness and glory of its coming.” (Teachings of Presidents of the Church: Brigham Young [1997], 111; emphasis added)

18. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Enoch shown panoramic vision revealing sacred history from his day until “the end of the world” (Moses 7:21-67). The promises and covenant made by God with Enoch were restored—these promises give clarity to what God will achieve in the last days (Moses 7:51-54, 60-65)

19. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Enoch shown panoramic vision revealing sacred history from his day until “the end of the world” (Moses 7:21-67). The promises and covenant made by God with Enoch were restored—these promises give clarity to what God will achieve in the last days (Moses 7:51-54, 60-65)
Before Jesus Christ returns to the earth in the last days, the Lord will–
[1] “send down righteousness out of heaven” and “truth will [He] send forth out of the earth” [restoration of Gospel]

20. Kirtland Endowment--Background
[2] by which He will “sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth” (Moses 7:62)

21. Kirtland Endowment--Background
[2] by which He will “sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth” (Moses 7:62) [i.e., God will flood the earth with truth and righteousness to gather of Israel (“the chosen seed”– i.e., the servant seed) by which Gentiles are blessed with the Gospel]

22. Kirtland Endowment--Background
[2] by which He will “sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth” (Moses 7:62) [i.e., God will flood the earth with truth and righteousness to gather of Israel (“the chosen seed”– i.e., the servant seed) by which Gentiles are blessed with the Gospel]
[3] “unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City, that my people my gird up their loins, and be looking forth for the time of my coming it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem” (Moses 7:62)

23. Enochian Covenant given to Noah
Insight from the same covenant God made with Noah—
21 And the bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant, which I made unto thy father Enoch; that, when men should keep all my commandments, Zion should again come on the earth, the city of Enoch which I have caught up unto myself.
22 And this is mine everlasting covenant, that when thy posterity shall embrace the truth, and look upward, then shall Zion look downward, and all the heavens shall shake with gladness, and the earth shall tremble with joy;
23 And the general assembly of the church of the firstborn shall come down out of heaven, and possess the earth, and shall have place until the end come. And this is mine everlasting covenant, which I made with thy father Enoch. (JST Gen. 9:21-23)

24. Kirtland Endowment--Background
[2] by which He will “sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth” [i.e., God will flood the earth with truth and righteousness to gather of Israel (“the chosen seed”– i.e., the servant seed) by which Gentiles are blessed with the Gospel]
[3] The elect will gather “unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City called Zion, a New Jerusalem (Moses 7:62)
With the second coming of Jesus Christ will come Enoch’s city of Zion as well as all righteous of the past, to join the latter-day Zion and become one people with Jesus Christ in their midst (Moses 6:63-64)

25. Kirtland Endowment--Background
[4] Then shalt thou and all thy city meet them there, and we will receive them into our bosom, and they shall see us; and we will fall upon their necks, and they shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each other;
“And there shall be mine abode, and it shall be Zion And for the space of a thousand years the earth shall rest.” (Moses 7:63-64)

26. Kirtland Endowment— The Beginnings
End of December, 1830—Joseph Smith and Sidney Rigdon receive D&C 37—
-- “this because of the enemy”
-- “and for your sakes”

27. Kirtland Endowment— The Beginnings

28. Kirtland Endowment--Background

29. Kirtland Endowment--Background
Before Jesus Christ returns to the earth in the last days, the Lord will– [1] “send down righteousness out of heaven” and “truth will [He] send forth out of the earth” by which He will “sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine elect from the four quarters of the earth” (Moses 7:62)
The elect will gather “unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City called Zion, a New Jerusalem (Moses 7:62)

30. Kirtland Endowment--Background