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There is no evidence in the last 120 years that the present church leadership have the same spiritual gift to receive Word of the Lord oracles that Joseph, Brigham, John and Wilford claimed to have had, and gave evidence of having. Is there?

But this gift was the central difference of Mormonism from the other churches today. How is Mormonism any different than the other churches without this gift?

The D&C is full of instructions, most of which are not against any law, which the church does not live. And the covenant to live “the law of the gospel as contained in the Doctrine and Covenants” is still being given to faithful members.

D&C 43:9-10 says:

9 And thus ye shall become instructed in the law of my church, and be sanctified by that which ye have received, and ye shall bind yourselves to act in all holiness before me—

10 That inasmuch as ye do this, glory shall be added to the kingdom which ye have received. Inasmuch as ye do it not, it shall be taken, even that which ye have received.

The D&C in these verses sets up a government by law, and that law is the D&C revelations. (also see D&C 42:59) These verses also show that if the church does not live by what they received in the D&C law that things can be TAKEN from the church.

So by simple obvious logic: the reason there is no evidence of Word of the Lord oracles among the leadership of the church for the last 120 years is because the church does not take the D&C seriously enough as the above verses warn, so this gift of oracles, and surely other things also, have been taken from the church as promised by these verses.

Today, it appears to me and to many that the church has become a government by men. The leadership are said to be guaranteed to have revelation as good as the D&C, so one does not need to worry about living by the word of God in his revelations. But could not this be a mistaken path?

If the Lord were to give the church a revelation today it would probably start something like this:

“Not until the church again lives by the revelations they have will I instruct and guide this church with further enlightenment. For if you will not receive the word you have, what profit will it be if I reveal more to you? For you will treat it as naught and trample it under your feet.”

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