1 Behold, it is expedient in me that my servant John should write and keep a regular history, and assist you, my servant Joseph, in transcribing all things which shall be given you, until he is called to further duties.
John ... being filled with the Holy Ghost from his mother's womb ... was baptized while he was yet in his childhood, and was ordained by the angel of God at the time he was eight days old. 84:27
Trivia: According to the three grand keys that are provided in Section 129, how can you tell if a messenger from God is an angel, the spirit of a just man made perfect, or the devil?
Revelation given through Joseph Smith at Kirtland, Ohio, March 8, 1831.
47:1-41 Behold, it is expedient in me that my servant John should write and keep a regular history, and assist you, my servant Joseph, in transcribing all things which shall be given you, until he is called to further duties.
I [God] would like John [Whitmer] to write history.
2 Again, verily I say unto you that he can also lift up his voice in meetings, whenever it shall be expedient.
He can also talk at meetings.
3 And again, I say unto you that it shall be appointed unto him to keep the church record and history continually; for Oliver Cowdery I have appointed to another office.
Oliver Cowdery used to write the history,
but I've given him other duties.
4 Wherefore, it shall be given him, inasmuch as he is faithful, by the Comforter, to write these things. Even so. Amen.
Amen.
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