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D&C 89-91 I Word of Wisdom, Visions of God, Apocrypha I Come Follow Church History with Lynne Wilson
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https://scripturecentral.org/archive/books/book-chapter/d-and-c-89-91-word-of-wisdom-revisiting-jst-and-apocrypha?searchId=0eb3e36bfb24dcd9bb1d1bece1531216b59539a8fde17ee80224af0653c92aa3-en-v=8da0cac 0:00 Introduction and key questions 2:23 D&C 89 Historical background of the Word of Wisdom 6:55 The school of the prophets 10:48 The “dos” of the word of wisdom and timeline 15:00 D&C 90 Establishment of the First Presidency and appearance of the Lord 18:29 D&C 91 The apocrypha and JST process 25:25 Books of the apocrypha 30:50 Additional records including the Dead Sea Scrolls When Christopher Columbus brought tobacco to Europe, it became a miracle drug. It was used for over 250 maladies (e.g., warts, asthma, ulcers, arrow wounds, toothaches, bad breath, deafness, tonsillitis, nosebleeds, epilepsy, etc.). From 1790 to 1830, alcohol consumption rose in America. Most men and some women and children drank alcohol regularly. Steven Harper recorded that in 1820, the upstate New York region near Joseph's home made a lot of corn whiskey and exported 65,277 gallons and 69 tons of beer. However, by 1830, temperance movements across the states—including a 239-member society in Kirtland—began attacking alcohol, tobacco, and other social ills (Harper, Making Sense of the D&C, 322-323). Several other food issues were discussed in local newspapers. A 19th-20th century contemporary of the Saints, Catherine Beecher, spoke against tea and coffee specifically as dangerous as alcohol. On February 1, 1833, four weeks before Joseph received this revelation, a Kirtland distillery (1819- 1833) closed due to a local temperance society's work to decrease their clients (P.H. Peterson, 13). It was part of a national organization, with the nearby larger city of Albany, NY, boasting…