We all know well the tragic Biblical story of David, king of Israel.  We realize that the Lord, in the beginning, called David, “the apple of his eye” and even after his fall, for hundreds of years, used the outstanding early life of David as the best example He could find of integrity in all Israel.  We also remember that David held the priesthood and even had the right to appoint and perform ordinances, but that he had not advanced to the degree that he had full Priesthood power which would have only come from the Savior’s hands ordaining him personally making him part of the  “one man” or united quorum [Hel. 10:7-11 & WW 1880:78-85]

Although David was a king, he never did obtain the Spirit and Power of Elijah and the fullness of the Priesthood and the Priesthood that he received, and the throne and kingdom of David is to be taken from him and given to another by the name of David in the last days, raised out of his lineage….  Peter says, ‘I would ye had done it [sin] ignorantly … He did not say to them [David or others in authoritative positions who sin against knowledge] repent and be baptized for the remission of your sins; but he said, ‘Repent ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out, when the times of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord [why couldn’t baptism cover sinning against light, or the Holy Ghost, then or now?].’  TPJS 339

We also understand that David committed adultery even after he already had been richly blessed and had been inducted into the order of celestial plural marriage, and on top of that, he had a faithful friend, one of his totally trusted military generals “executed” by using yet another friend to cover his adultery from coming to light. Is this an example of how the “oath of brotherhood” is perverted into a Gadianton oath of covering one another’s sins?  [This is obviously a twisting of Lorin Woolley’s statement that he would lie like hell to protect his brethren.  I’m sure he did not mean by that to cover sin but just to keep them out of harm’s way from corrupt enemy government henchmen.]  How did such a good man, David, fall thus from his exaltation so quickly breaking the 6^th, 7^th, 8^th,9^th and 10^th commandments, at least? 

None the less, David and Bathsheba fell, and both committed adultery greatly weakening the genealogical line the Savior was to be born through.  Had Bathsheba, originally, married the wrong man?  It appears so, but if David would have only been patient, Bathsheba’s husband would have been most likely killed in battle naturally, and David could have had Bathsheba legally without either of them sinning, but they both pushed the envelope as they say, didn’t they and went to hell?

What have been the consequences over the last 3000 years of these lustful acts?  By lustful we mean beyond the bounds of the compass that we all wear.  Of course you know that David’s family fell apart after that with incest blowing the circuits of the scoreboard, a son debauching several of his father’s wives while David was temporarily driven out of town.  Another brother raped his beautiful virgin sister and afterward threw her out of doors as a piece of trash.  Is that kind of evil also going on among us, do you think?  Brother killed brother etc. etc. harrowing up David and his entire family for the sins of the father.  Where is David a thousand years after his sins?  The true Apostle, Peter, said David’s grave was still with them or in other words he was not resurrected with the Saints at the resurrection of Jesus.  It appears he still hasn’t been resurrected and it has been now about 3000 years in hell suffering for his sins and all that for just defrauding one man out of his wife and then covering his sin.  It appears that Bathsheba didn’t have any children yet and so, the man with almost absolute authority, only destroyed a small beginning family because of lust or going beyond his legal bounds.  What if Bathsheba had had a large family with many children? What would have been the effect of the adultery and divorce entailing upon all of them, and for how many generations would its corrupting influence have been felt on so many?

If we look for examples closer to home, in our day, of men claiming “almost absolute authority,” the Council of Colorado City pops up quickly into our minds.  When such men with supposed almost almighty authority, but without the Word of the Lord, unjustly dismember or “kill” say, 50 families, some of which are large, teeming with many children, what do you feel would be the results entailing on such men for playing God?  If David has, so far, suffered for three thousand years just for Bathsheba and killing Uriah’s one family, what might entail on men who “murdered” many times that with their little authority as they suppose?  Sobering questions aren’t they?  Don’t you just want to fall on your knees and beg God to make you the head of the Priesthood in our day, when it appears as President B.H. Roberts testified, that we have Prophets who can’t prophesy and Seers who can’t see anymore and thus all these undermined families are “blown to smithereens”, and fall into the “proverbial ditch” often destroying their children’s budding testimonies?  [Truth 8:175-76]  We also highly recommend you prayerfully study Pres. Mus.ser’s editorial on “The Divorce Evil” in Truth 7:200-202.  Your salvation depends on fully understanding these doctrines and applying them if you ever want to go to the Celestial Kingdom by living celestial laws!

Above we used the words: almost absolute authority, which begins to actually describe and define a tyrant.  Webster says a tyrant is: “a monarch or other ruler or master who uses power to oppress – a person who exercises unlawful authority, or lawful authority in an unlawful manner; one who by taxation, injustice or cruel punishment, or the demand of unreasonable services, imposes burdens and hardships on those under his control, which law and humanity do not authorize, or which the purposes of government do not require…. Hence tyranny is often synonymous with cruelty and oppression.”

Immediately pictures of people flood into our minds from history fleshing out this definition such as:  Cain, Caesar, Hitler, Mussolini, Mao Tse-tung, the Council in Short Creek etc. Did you also add, because of our discussion so far, King David whose power corrupted him absolutely as our title states?  Do you think you could find 50 men over the last 40 years, in our Work, who passionately protest against having been bulldozed over by our Priesthood Council, wives having been ripped away from them, often with very questionable justification and almost always without real revelation to authoritatively break the eternal covenant?  For a more detailed discussion of what real revelation is see:  95 Questions That Still Need Answering by Bro. Steve [Blog # 6 published Oct. 12, 2014] and also see Truth 8:175-176 & 8:260-262.

What did the Lord put into place to help check such unrighteous dominion or wrong use of power: prophet power, presiding priesthood power, and “king-men” or those for total governing power among us?  The obvious answer is that both Joseph Smith and Joseph Musser wrote extensively about The Lord’s Justice System partially described in D&C 102, and again by Brother Steve way back in 1997: Why is Justice a Chief Attribute of God and a Godly People originally published in the Candlestick [Coming Blogs 11-24].  Again why is a Supreme Court needed in our United States national system?  To balance the President and Congress,of course.  What balances the almost absolute authority of the President of the Priesthood and the Council in our Work today?  Nothing!  Have you noticed the headers and footers of each and every page [in the original hard copy], one of which says:  "A body of men holding themselves accountable to nobody, ought not to be trusted by anybody"?  Thomas Paine? 

Since human nature has not changed in, or out of the Work, since the Fall of mankind, then does it seem reasonable to you that such a system as Bro. Musser taught us about, needs to be also put in place among us - in our “united orders,” to help us with our petitions for divorce, and to settle the cases where more powerful people take advantage of less powerful people in financial matters?

“We have learned [have you yet?] by sad experience that it is the nature and disposition of almost all men, as soon as they get a little authority, as they suppose, they will immediately begin to exercise unrighteous dominion.”    D&C 121:39

There is a principle of Priesthood law mentioned in British Common Law, in United States Constitutional Law, in the Book of Mormon and implied in the D&C that fleshes out a Priesthood Justice System called “interposition.”  This principle of law was attempted to be used by the South in stopping the Civil Rights legislation in the 1950s but was discredited by our rogue Supreme Court, the same court responsible for the murder of about 40,000,000 babies since 1973 or approximately the population of California.  The principle of interposition is once again being called upon to stop Obama Care by several states in the Union. What do the little guys do if the big guys, with all the power, begin to move into advanced tyranny of unrighteous dominion? 

In Mosiah 29:29 [verses 27 & 28 are also germane] we have a brief mention of this principle of Priesthood law and government, called interposition: “If your higher judges do not judge righteous judgments, ye shall cause that a small number of your lower judges should be gathered together, and they shall judge your higher judges, according to the voice of the people.”

Applying that to the Work, if the Council largely became complicit in un-righteous dominion, covering very serious sins, grossly misappropriating tithing funds etc., then before it is eternally too late and before “amen to their priesthood,” would it not rightfully devolve upon the next ranking bodies of Priesthood, the Seventies [and those High Priests also living the celestial law of marriage], to hear the case against the Council, and to rule a righteous judgment?  [John 7:24 and JST Matt. 7:1]  That, of course, presupposes that the Seventies and the High Priests were trained in a Priesthood Justice System [the purpose of several blogs forthcoming], which most of them are not yet even very aware of.  

What about the D&C?  Where is this principle implied?  Check out:  D&C 107:24, 26, 32 & 36:    

“And they form a quorum [a united body of Priesthood with the Spirit of God filling them], equal in authority and power to the three presidents previously mentioned….  And they form a quorum equal in authority to that of the Twelve special witnesses or Apostles just named….  And in case that any decision of these quorums is made in unrighteousness, it may be brought before a general assembly of the several quorums, which constitutes the spiritual authorities of the church [gathered believers or assembly in Greek]; otherwise there is no appeal from their decision….  The standing high councils at the stakes of Zion, form a quorum equal in authority in the affairs of the church [gathered believers or assembly in Greek into which we were all baptized] in all their decisions, to the quorum of the presidency, or to the traveling high council.  The high council in Zion [celestial law] form a quorum equal in authority in the affairs of the church, [Lord’s definition of church in D&C 10:67-69] in all their decisions, to the councils of the Twelve at the stakes [colonies] of Zion.”

Some may try to dismiss the scriptures above by saying they only apply to the nation or the Church, but remember the Lord gives us a pattern in all things and which applies on all levels from the telestial to Celestial Kingdoms or that which should be found in this Work - including the government of nations to the government of the Kingdom of God and God’s Priesthood on both sides of the veil.

Hopefully you are beginning to understand that all these Priesthood classes we have been attending for years and all the thousands and hundreds of thousands of hours we have spent fasting, praying and studying the Gospel is so we will apply it into our lives, isn’t it?  If we believe in all these principles but don’t apply them, aren’t we also like the ones described by the Lord when he condemned them who say but don’t do, individually or collectively?  Also if we don’t counsel together and correct ourselves with the principles the Lord has revealed, as far as we can, before the One Mighty and Strong comes, won’t we likely be viewed as that which is only worthy to be “acted upon” [the non-valiant], and not spiritually righteous enough to receive revelation through the “keys” each endowed person has received?  

Let’s now look at some fundamental parts of a Priesthood Justice System by looking at the foundations of correct government being established in this country during the Revolution of 1775 – 1781.  What was the spark that ignited all the theory into action?  Written words in a small pamphlet exposed the fallacy of some false doctrine which had kept the blood of Israel in the chains of bondage for over 2500 years.  You may remember it was called Common Sense and was written by Thomas Paine.  One of the main principles that Paine elucidated on was the fallacy of the doctrine of the “divine rights of kings.” 

The kings taught that they were God’s representatives on the earth.  No matter how they acted, God had chosen them and there was nothing the common man could do to legally rein them in.  So the thought to the God-fearing men in this country [and in this Work] of taking a position of fighting against God, their Divine Sovereign, kept them from moving from theory to actually setting things in order by applying correct Gospel principles.  Paine showed the world that kings, and the principle of total government  [totalitarianism], also so prevalent in our day, nationally and religiously, which we find examples of in Russia, China, Iran, and in Short Creek and, oh, yes also in hell, is given to the people when they won’t follow correct principle for such a long time that God curses them with kings [or sin-filled priesthood leaders].  99% of the time, these tyrants, were and are, unrighteous, as we clearly understand by reading in the books of Samuel, Kings, Chronicles and the book of Ether as well as current newspapers [see 1 Samuel 8:7]. 

The very rare exceptions to this rule are but a few righteous rulers, or leaders, who could survive the terrible weight of “almost absolute power” as seen in such men as Nephi, Benjamin, Mosiah and other prophet kings or king-priests such as Shem or Melchizedek and Joseph Smith.  These wonderful men give us hope that someday pure Priesthood brothers will be sufficiently developed who will be able to justly reign with Christ as He becomes King of kings.

Another important concept to clearly grasp is seen when we ask the question, who were the “rebels” in this Revolutionary War conflict, and who were the true patriots following correct Gospel principles?  Who was rebelling against centuries and centuries of principles of free government, stemming from the days of Moses about 1400 B.C., the kings and Parliament of England or the Patriots?

If you are uncertain on this important point realize that The Declaration of Independence was, in some ways, a document of “interposition” listing 27 monumental grievances, or atrocities, against the tyrannical king, George the III of England, and demonstrating that he had violated his “oath and covenant” with the church politick or the “general assembly of Israel” as a lineage through his unrighteous dominion.

You might be saying at this juncture that that may have been true before Priesthood was restored in this dispensation, but now we are under a theocracy and not a theo-democracy which is only to be found in the Church. The implied premise of this narrow position, that we, as a priesthood body, are a theocracy and that no democratic principle of balancing power is present in the Priesthood Work, is that we have a man, who like Moses is getting real revelations and not just “inspiration” such as any good Methodist might also receive.  If we have no real “one man” with power like Nephi, son of Helaman or of Joseph Smith caliber which we read of in D&C 132, then the “theo” or God-part of theo - cracy vanishes leaving us with only “cracy” or arbitrary government rule which is often filled with tyrannical mon-archy or, historically, a more stable form called olig-archy or the rule of a few powerful ones but not usually who are in contact with God.  

“Behold, I give unto you [righteous Nephi] power, that whatsoever ye shall seal on earth shall be sealed in heaven; and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven; and thus shall ye have power among this people…. And if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou cast down and become smooth, it shall be done…. Go declare unto this people, that Thus Saith the Lord God, who is the Almighty; Except ye repent ye shall be smitten even unto destruction.    Helaman 10:7, 9.

When a man has come to a state of purity to that degree, where we have good reason to trust him in great measure because he has visibly proven his love and devotion to God, then we would be more justified in relying on his words with much more confidence than just an ordinary non quickened man just standing in some office, even that of presiding in Israel, as king or president. 

While Joseph Smith was running for the Presidency of the United States he said the following as part of his platform:

“As the ‘world is governed too much’ and as there is not a nation or dynasty, now occupying the earth, which acknowledges Almighty God as their law giver, and as ‘crowns won by blood, by blood must be maintained,’ I go emphatically, virtuously, and humanely for a THEODEMOCRACY, where God and the people hold the power to conduct the affairs of men in righteousness.”     T&S 5:510

In this same spirit consider D&C 64:38-42:

“the inhabitants [demo = people] of Zion SHALL JUDGE all things pertaining to Zion.  And liars and hypocrites shall be proved by them, and they who are not apostles and prophets shall be known.  And even the bishop who is a judge and his counselors, if they are not faithful in their stewardships shall be condemned, and others shall be planted in their stead.  For, behold, I say unto you that Zion shall flourish and the glory of the Lord shall be upon her; and she shall be an ensign unto the people…”    [see also: Treasures of Know. 1:31]

Drawing from this revelation, does the Lord expect Zion, or the people trying hard to live celestial law, to root out and expose liars and hypocrites who are among their leaders?  Is He also describing the fact that men claiming to be apostles and prophets but who weren’t properly called or who don’t have that much of the Spirit of God are to be exposed somehow? If they don’t or can’t repent when exposed, what should happen to them?  By what process are they to be condemned and others planted in their stead in this Work?  Obviously as this Work becomes more and more Zion-like, these principles of the Lord’s Justice System will be fully developed and practiced won’t they?

President Brigham Young adds to what the Lord has revealed to the Prophet when he further instructed us on more of the details of this Priesthood Justice System that must be fully established in this Work or else it seems we may be getting to the stage where it is amen to our Priesthood as a people.  Pres. Young spoke of “theo-republics” and “theo-democracies” being the same to him.

“I believe in a true republican theocracy, and also in a true democratic theocracy, as the term democratic is now used; for they are to me, in their present use, convertible terms.  What do I understand by a theocratic government? One in which all laws are enacted and executed in righteousness, and whose officers possess that power which proceedeth from the Almighty. That is the kind of government I allude to when I speak of a theocratic government, or the kingdom of God upon the earth. It is, in short, the eternal powers of the Gods."

"What do the world understand theocracy to be? A poor, rotten government of man, that would say, without the shadow of provocation or just cause, ‘Cut that man's head off [his wife & family?]; put that one on the rack [disfellowship without a hearing]; arrest another, and retain him in unlawful and unjust duress while you plunder his property and pollute his wife and daughters; massacre here and there.’ The Lord Almighty does nothing of that kind, neither does any man who is controlled by his Spirit. Again, the theocracy I speak of is the power of the Holy Ghost within you  [higher order revelation from God] — that living and eternal principle that we do not possess in the fullness that we are seeking. When we talk about heavenly things, and see the world [Work?] groveling in their sin and misery, and loving iniquity and corruption, the heavens weep over the people, and still they will not infringe upon their rights. God has created them so far perfectly independent as to be able to choose death or life; and he will not infringe upon this right.”     Brigham Young    JD 6:346-7

So in our day are the totalitarian principles of the “infallibility of the Pope or king”, or “follow the living prophet blindly” who will “never lead you astray” now manifested in this Work as:  the man holding the “keys” who is supposed to get revelation but can’t, has spoken - so rest assured, there is no corruption among us coming from the Priesthood Council at all, and therefore no need to correct any evil among our leaders?  With the testimonies and documents coming out in the near future you should clearly be able to see that that that position is blatantly naïve and false!  Do you believe that repentance and “return and report” accountability is also sorely needed for the priesthood council as well as all the rest of us?

Now I will address some of the objections to what has been written thus far.  The “you are out of order, because you are steadying the ark” charge will now be briefly examined.  To refresh our memory of this historical allusion we read:

“When Aaron and his sons have made an end of covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, as the camp is to set forward; after that, the sons of Kohath [one of Aarons priestly sons] shall come to bear it: but they shall not touch any holy thing, lest they die.”   Num. 4:15

The Levites would be like our deacons and teachers and the Aaronites would be like our priests. Only one of the three bodies of the Aaronic priests, were even allowed to touch the sacred Ark upon penalty of death.  For the other two groups of Aaronite priests, it was beyond the scope of their calling to even touch the Ark or in other words they didn't have the priesthood calling to do it. 

Now we move forward in time to about 400 years into the days of King David.  David had gathered 30,000 choice men of Israel to transport the Ark to Jerusalem but the Levites made a serious procedural error.  God had commanded that the Ark be carried on the backs by one of the groups of Levites who were not allowed to even touch the Ark, and instead they made a new cart violating the Lord’s strict Levitical Law of Moses commandment seen above in Numbers chapter 4 which we just read. 

“They set the ark of God upon a new cart … and Uzzah and Ahio, the sons of Abinadab drave the new cart …        and when they came to to Naachon’s threshing floor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.  And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.”        2 Sam 6:3-7

Later David said: 

“None ought to carry the ark of God but the Levites: for them hath the LORD chosen to carry the ark of God… because ye did not at the first, the LORD our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not after the due order … and the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the LORD.”       I Chron. 15:2, 13, 15 

We clearly see that none but the Priests of Aaron could touch the Ark, not even a Levite priest.hood bearer, who carried it.  What is the main point for our gleaning here?  Heavenly Father wants us also to strictly follow His commands as well where only the proper person should precisely do what the duty of his office commands.  After the tragic death of Uzzah, David waited three months before he would even go near the Ark out of fear, but we know he still didn’t fully get the message because of the stark violation of the command, “be ye clean who bear the vessels of the Lord” when applied to David’s stark sinning against se.xual purity with Bathsheba. 

In D&C 85:7, 8 the Lord alludes to the example above from the Old Testament but with some differing details:

“And it shall come to pass that I, the Lord God, will send one mighty and strong, holding the scepter of power in his hand, clothed with light for a covering, whose mouth shall utter words, eternal words; while his bowels shall be a fountain of truth, to set in order the house of God, and to arrange by lot the inheritances of the saints whose names are found, and the names of their fathers, and of their children, enrolled in the book of the law of God;  While that man, who was called of God and appointed, that putteth forth his hand to steady the ark of God, shall fall by the shaft of death, like as a tree that is smitten by the vivid shaft of lightning.”

The One Mighty and Strong refers to Jehovah, in the Old Testament, or anyone He sends and empowers, generally a resurrected or translated person.  Only He can ultimately set in order, the out of order house of God in our day.  But who is the man who was called of God properly, and appointed who tries to steady the Ark and is struck down?  On November 13, 1905 Pres. Joseph F. Smith took the position that the man was Bishop Edward Partridge though his quick death was mitigated because of sincere and fervent repentance.  Then Pres. Smith adds:  

“If, however, there are those who will still insist that the prophecy concerning the coming of ‘one mighty and strong’ is still to be regarded as relating to the future, let the Latter-day Saints know that he will be a future Bishop of the Church … with the spirit and power of his calling, that he will be able to set in order the house of God….”

We see here that Pres. Smith has enlightened us by revealing that the house of God will be set in order by a legal priesthood bearer or possibly, we might add, by a group of them and he/they will have “the Spirit and Power of his/their calling.”  We know that even a Teacher in the Aaronic Priesthood is commanded to: “see that there is no iniquity in the church [or the Group]” D&C 20:54  how much more so,  Melchizedek Priesthood bearers, called by a true Prophet, Rul.on C. All.red, and empowered and commanded by the Lord to, at least, cry repentance to the people? 

By shining a light into the now, often habitually accepted darkness among us, we may also be accused of operating in the office of the adversary by being “accusers of the brethren.” Again this argument, this misguided attempt to stop justice in its tracks with such a gross misapplication of scripture, has been well handled, on pages 23-30 of the, already mentioned Why is Justice a Chief Attribute of GOD and a Godly People?  Get a copy.  [Blogs 11- 24].    

Next we hear the wailing of children among us, still fixated in what was allowed to happen to them, often now adults, who say, yes there truly are/were abominations by which I was ab.used, but I will not bring them forth into the light because to do so will violate the 5^th of the Ten Commandments:  “Honor thy father and thy mother….”  To expose them to the justice they deserve won’t be done by me because I won’t break this commandment and add to the hurt of my family and to the already tarnished image of this Work. 

This not seeing clearly the actual truth is perhaps reminiscent of the lie about the official regal clothing of the emperor who in reality wore no clothes at all, which truth was only seen clearly by a courageous child.  By extension we might also apply this reasoning by saying that all our leaders, teachers etc.are representative of  our fathers and mothers of this 5^th commandment, and so we will not use our influence to tell the truth about them either.  We can go on with this foundation-less logic and say even our evil government officials are not to be brought to trial because of their protected positions implied by the 5^th commandment.  By the way, does the Pres. of the Priesthood today, actually have on clothes, or true habiliments of Priesthood Power, or is he stark naked?  What do you personally perceive with your spiritual eyes? Do you have the courage to "make a righteous judgment" as the young child, or are you part of the "trained masses"?

Does God command us to honor evil?  No!  Does He mandate that we honor evil parents, teachers and leaders as well, or rather only those parents, teachers and leaders are to be honored to the degree that they honor the pure commandments of God? What does it take for the devil to be triumphant on this earth?  Is it not for good men and women to do nothing to stop the spread of evil, frozen in their tracks by misguided notions that are devoid of the truth?  Isn’t this perverted loyalty like that found among doomed victims of secret combinations of evil?  Are some of us in this Work deciding to remain victims because of our fear of standing up and loudly proclaiming, “What happened to me was very wrong!”?  Do you realize that you will stay stuck in that childish victimized mentality until you receive the courage from God to speak against the evil done to you, which, when you do, will start your healing and move you from the grasp of the evil chains of our adversary into the healing light of Jesus Christ.

You might be saying: "Alright, to fully hear you out, before judging you to be an apostate, we want to understand what you believe the Lord is commanding you to do about all the evil among us that most of us are too afraid to bring into the light of day."

A terrible truth that needs to be pointed out is that when we, each of us, doesn’t have the courage to speak out against and expose sin and evil among us, for whatever excuse, we actually end up casting our vote for and condoning the very iniquity that we so loath and hate, and thereby actually strengthen the evil by our silence becoming participants with the devil by default?    

But the Lord has revealed clear instructions for our deliverance by faith in the Lord Jesus Christ.

D&C 134:8  “We believe that … all men [women and children] should step forward and use their ability in bringing offenders against good laws to punishment.”

Evil can only survive and thrive in the darkness, in the hidden darkness of fear and shame!

2 Ne 3:5    Wherefore, Joseph [in Egypt] truly saw [seer] our day. And he obtained a promise of the Lord… [that] the Messiah should be made manifest unto them [us] in the latter days, in the spirit of power, the bringing of them [us] out of darkness unto light—yea, out of hidden darkness and out of captivity unto freedom.

Some souls filled with fear and lacking sufficient courage and faith in God, might misapply a quote from the Prophet as an excuse to do nothing: 

“Our lives have already become jeopardized by revealing the wicked and bloodthirsty purposes of our enemies and for the future we must cease to do so.  All we have said about them is truth, but it is not always wise to relate all the truth.”  HC 6:608

Is there a difference between cleansing the “inside of the platter” of this Work, and revealing too much of all the evils of the secret satanic conspiracy imprisoning this world in chains more and more each day?  We, who are servants of the Lord, are commanded to cry repentance generally unto the people, and then the responsibility is upon them for their own sins and not on those of us charged with this great responsibility.

While the Prophet was in Liberty Jail he wrote revelatory letters making up sections 121-123.  The following clearly lays out our responsibility within the Work and outside of the Work, and if we are to honor our sacred covenants by obeying the “law of the Gospel” as contained in the Scriptures, then how can we be justified and fail to fulfill such injunctions?  Are the principles in these revelations applicable to the Work we are in today?  Nephi's council answers that question very well when he said: 

"I did liken all scriptures unto us, that it might be for our profit and learning."  1 Ne. 19:23

“D&C 123:1-17:  “…we would suggest for your consideration the propriety of all the saints gathering up a knowledge of all the facts, and sufferings and abuses put upon them … And also of all the … damages which they have sustained, both of character and personal injuries …And also the names of all persons that have had a hand in their oppressions, as far as they can get hold of them and find them out … And perhaps a committee can be appointed to find out these things, and to take statements and affidavits … and present the whole concatenation of diabolical rascality and nefarious … impositions that have been practiced upon this people … in all their dark and hellish hue, as the last effort which is enjoined on us by our Heavenly Father, before we can fully and completely claim that promise which shall call Him forth from his hiding place; that the[y] … may be left without excuse before He can send forth the power of his mighty arm.

… “It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of … tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world [Work] with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity … 

Therefore it is an imperative duty that we owe, not only to our own wives and children, but to the widows and fatherless…under its iron hand;  Which dark and blackening deeds are enough to make hell itself shudder, and to stand aghast and pale, and the hands of the very devil to tremble and palsy … 

It is an imperative duty that we owe to all the rising generation, and to all the pure in heart … who are blinded by the subtle craftiness of men, whereby they lie in wait to deceive … Therefore, that we should waste and wear out our lives in bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness, wherein we know them; and they are truly manifest from heaven … These should then be attended to with great earnestness. Let no man count them as small things; for there is much which lieth in futurity, pertaining to the saints, which depends upon these things … Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.”

In keeping with these revelations and inspired instructions from the Lord, do you intend to accomplish your “imperative duty” of “bringing to light all the hidden things of darkness” in this Work UNTIL ACCOUNTABILITY IS FIRMLY ESTABLISHED?