Doctrine and Covenants 3:12–“Don’t Give the Sacred to the Wicked” by grego

Doctrine and Covenants 3:12–“Don’t Give the Sacred to the Wicked” by grego

When I read this:
DC 3:12 And when thou deliveredst up that which God had given thee sight and power to translate, thou deliveredst up that which was sacred into the hands of a wicked man,

I thought about daughters, and how I need to not deliver them up “into the hands of a wicked man”/ wicked men when they start dating and afterwards.

Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants: “Why Didn’t Joseph Smith Preach the Book of Mormon??” by grego

Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants: “Why Didn’t Joseph Smith Preach the Book of Mormon??” by grego

I always wondered about that. President Smith rarely preached from the Book of Mormon, and sometimes about principle found in the Bible, but often things mentioned in the Bible that others misunderstood.

Here is something I saw:
DC 5:9 Behold, verily I say unto you, I have reserved those things which I have entrusted unto you, my servant Joseph, for a wise purpose in me, and it shall be made known unto future generations;
10 But this generation shall have my word through you;
11 And in addition to your testimony, the testimony of three of my servants, whom I shall call and ordain, unto whom I will show these things, and they shall go forth with my words that are given through you.

Though it’s not really clear, I wonder if it means that the things entrusted were the plates/ Book of Mormon, which were to be used more later, but the beginning was to be Joseph Smith preaching through much direct revelation and bearing testimony (his testimony was never included in the Book of Mormon, though that of the three was).

Doctrine and Covenants 5: “The Loss of the Plates” by grego

Doctrine and Covenants: “The Loss of the Plates” by grego

Why were the plates taken away? I remember the story of Joseph Smith asking two times, God saying no, Joseph asking one more time, and God finally relenting. Then Martin Harris loses the translation, the plates and the Urim and Thummim get taken away, and Joseph Smith loses the gift of translation.

But I don’t think that’s what happened.

Doctrine and Covenants 5 explains that this event was the culmination of MANY previous problems of Joseph not listening and obeying:

4 For although a man may have many revelations, and have power to do many mighty works, yet if he boasts in his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and follows after the dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he must fall and incur the vengeance of a just God upon him.
5 Behold, you have been entrusted with these things, but how strict were your commandments; and remember also the promises which were made to you, if you did not transgress them.
6 And behold, how oft you have transgressed the commandments and the laws of God, and have gone on in the persuasions of men.
7 For, behold, you should not have feared man more than God. Although men set at naught the counsels of God, and despise his words—
8 Yet you should have been faithful; and he would have extended his arm and supported you against all the fiery darts of the adversary; and he would have been with you in every time of trouble.
…
12 And when thou deliveredst up that which God had given thee sight and power to translate, thou deliveredst up that which was sacred into the hands of a wicked man,
13 Who has set at naught the counsels of God, and has broken the most sacred promises which were made before God, and has depended upon his own judgment and boasted in his own wisdom.
14 And this is the reason that thou hast lost thy privileges for a season—
15 For thou hast suffered the counsel of thy director to be trampled upon from the beginning.