I’m going to do this comparison by categorizing the revelations of the Doctrine and Covenants by type, adapting these categories from “Doctrine and Covenants Compendium” by Sidney B. At some point they’re not going to be modern anymore. Our church leaders calling Joseph Smith’s nearly 200 year old revelations “modern revelation” makes me giggle every time. When I say modern revelation I mean more recent than Joseph Smith. I’m going to look at a comparison between modern revelation and old revelation. For nearly a century and a half there has been no interruption.” (Ensign, May 1977, 78). The sound of the voice of the Lord is a continuous melody and a thunderous appeal. I say, in the deepest of humility, but also by the power and force of a burning testimony in my soul, that from the prophet of the Restoration to the prophet of our own year, the communication line is unbroken, the authority is continuous, a light, brilliant and penetrating, continues to shine. President Kimball also said, “Expecting the spectacular, one may not be fully alerted to the constant flow of revealed communication.
Kimball, “many are prone to garnish the sepulchers of yesterday’s prophets and mentally stone the living ones” (Instructor, 95:257). Have canon-level revelations been received over the past 100 years that haven’t been canonized? Do we revere the past revelations while ignoring the current? After all, “Even in the Church,” said President Spencer W. Perhaps it’s simply a question of canonization. We’ve been waiting for a single addition to our canon for over 30 years. It is a common question in the church: Why don’t we have more revelations? The Book of Commandments, the first collection of Joseph Smith’s revelations, was published only 3 years after the founding of the church. The last record of a revelation in the D&C is found in Section 138, received nearly 100 years ago. As you can see by how it’s named, this was a statement no revelation is contained in it, only the report that a revelation has been received. The last addition to the scriptures was Official-Declaration 2, received almost 35 years ago. However, our leaders have been slow to canonize.
The fact there was so much excitement for something as simple as changing the missionary age is evidence of that. If they had announced that the D&C was going to have new sections added everyone would be excited. Stephen L Richards said, “A revelation to our living president would be as readily accepted and become as much a part of our scripture as the revelations given to the Prophet Joseph ” (April 1932 General Conference). I wish there was a need to buy new scriptures.
This is the first major revision of the LDS Scriptures in over 30 years. I understand there is no need to buy new scriptures, but I wish you didn’t feel the need to emphasize it. “The current edition of the scriptures…will continue to serve Latter-day Saints very well” (Deseret News, “LDS Church Announces new scripture edition). Anderson of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles after the release of the 2013 edition of the Standard Works. “e want to emphasize there is no need to buy new scriptures,” said Elder Neil L.
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