1 Behold, I say unto you that all old covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing; and this is a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from the beginning.
But first let my army become very great ... that her banners may be terrible unto all nations. 105:31
Trivia: Who will reimburse Joseph Smith if he has to pay back the money that Ezra Thayre gave to the church?
22:1-4 1 Behold, I say unto you that all old covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing; and this is a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from the beginning.
I [God] have done away with all the old covenants.
This is a new and everlasting covenant, like it was from the beginning.
2 Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the law of Moses, neither by your dead works.
Even if you were baptized a hundred times, it would be worthless. [1]
3 For it is because of your dead works that I have caused this last covenant and this church to be built up unto me, even as in days of old.
It's because of your dead works that I've made this last covenant.
4 Wherefore, enter ye in at the gate, as I have commanded, and seek not to counsel your God. Amen.
So enter at the gate, and don't tell God what to do.
Amen.
No matter how many times you were baptized previously, you must be baptized again to become a Mormon.
I know that's not what this verse says, and it doesn't say this anywhere in this section.
But the official LDS summary at the top of Section 22 says, "This revelation was given to the Church in consequence of some who had previously been baptized desiring to unite with the Church without rebaptism."
So there you go.
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