Doctrine and Covenants Joseph Smith History 1:1-26 (God Continues His Testimony)

<p>Last time we listened as God give powerful testimony that the early Christian Church fell away into darkness and apostatized from the Biblical truth. &nbsp;(This of course has always been very clear in multiple New Testament verses, and therefore should not have come as a surprise to anyone.) &nbsp;God further testified that He had called Joseph Smith to be His Prophet upon the earth, and gave to him a commandment to restore the original Christian New Testament Church. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Following the reorganization of the Christian Church on April 6, 1830, God declared that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is "the only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth." &nbsp;By true and living, God was saying that not only is the theology and doctrine as taught by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints the most biblically accurate and correct when compared to that taught by all the other churches, but that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only "living" church that Jesus Christ is personally leading, guiding, and directing today through communication with His current prophets and apostles. &nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>Join us this week, as God continues His testimony. &nbsp;This week, God the Father, and His Son Jesus Christ command the Prophet Joseph Smith two times not to join any church that was then upon the earth in the year 1820 (10 years before the restoration of Christianity). &nbsp;Jesus Christ Himself declared that all churches in 1820 "were wrong." &nbsp;He then stated "that all their (non-biblical) creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: “they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof.” &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</p> <p><br></p> <p>God stated such important facts in a very clear and concise manner in which He did not wish to cause any confusi