Lineal Melchizedek priesthood
Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2018 5:24 pm
Didn't want to threadjack the topic on Joseph and Sarah Whitney but this really popped out at me:
"Sarah Ann Whitney’s sealing to Joseph Smith was also singular in that a revelation, dated July 27, 1842, specifically outlined the words Sarah’s father, Bishop Newell K. Whitney, was to use in performing the ceremony:
Verily thus saith the Lord unto my se[r]vant N. K. Whitney the thing that my se[r]vant Joseph Smith has made known unto you and your Famely [Family] and which you have agreed upon is right in mine eyes and shall be crowned upon your heads with honor and immortality and eternal life to all your house both old & young because of the lineage of my Preast [Pirest] Hood saith the Lord it shall be upon you and upon your children after you from generation to generation By virtue of the Holy promise which I now make unto you saith the Lord.
these are the words which you shall pronounce upon my se[r]vant Joseph [Smith] and your Daughter S. A. [Sarah Ann] Whitney. They shall take each other by the hand and you shall say:
you both mutu[al]ly agree calling them by name to be each others companion so long as you both shall live presser[v]ing yourselv[es] for each other and from all others and also through [o]ut all eternity reserving only those rights which have been given to my servant Joseph [Smith] by revelation and commandment and by legal Authority in times passed [past].
“If you both agree to covenant and do this, then I give you S. A. [Sarah Ann] Whitney my Daughter to Joseph Smith to be his wife to observe all the rights betwe[e]n you both that belong to that condition. I do it in my own name and in the name of my wife your mother and in the name of my Holy Progenitors by the right of birth which is of Priest Hood vested in me by revelation and commandment and promise of the living God obtained by the Holy Melchizedek Gethrow [Jethro] and other of the Holy Fathers commanding in the name of the Lord all those powers to concentrate in you and through to your po[s]terity for ever
all these things I do in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that through this order he may be glorified [glorified] and [that] through the power of anointing Davied [David] may reign King over Iseral [Israel] which shall hereafter be revealed let immortality and eternal life henc[e]forth be sealed upon your heads forever and ever."
I know early in the church there was some doctrine given (probably purged now) regarding the lineage of the Melchizedek priesthood. (Which isn't supposed to be lineal)
The wording for Joseph and Sarah's ceremony seems to be loaded with it.
I'm thinking that seldom heard doctrine that Joseph was a descendent of Melchisedek, Jethro, King David and Christ, has to be where this concept comes from. Which would explain why Christ had to have been married and had a posterity (in the minds of church leadership).
When Joseph writes:
"...that through the power of anointing Davied [David] may reign King over Iseral [Israel] which shall hereafter be revealed."
I think he's writing about himself. I don't think he's writing about Christ.
Is this lineal High Priesthood why some of the early leadership considered themselves rightful heirs to the Melchizedek priesthood by virtue of being blood descendents of Christ?
"Sarah Ann Whitney’s sealing to Joseph Smith was also singular in that a revelation, dated July 27, 1842, specifically outlined the words Sarah’s father, Bishop Newell K. Whitney, was to use in performing the ceremony:
Verily thus saith the Lord unto my se[r]vant N. K. Whitney the thing that my se[r]vant Joseph Smith has made known unto you and your Famely [Family] and which you have agreed upon is right in mine eyes and shall be crowned upon your heads with honor and immortality and eternal life to all your house both old & young because of the lineage of my Preast [Pirest] Hood saith the Lord it shall be upon you and upon your children after you from generation to generation By virtue of the Holy promise which I now make unto you saith the Lord.
these are the words which you shall pronounce upon my se[r]vant Joseph [Smith] and your Daughter S. A. [Sarah Ann] Whitney. They shall take each other by the hand and you shall say:
you both mutu[al]ly agree calling them by name to be each others companion so long as you both shall live presser[v]ing yourselv[es] for each other and from all others and also through [o]ut all eternity reserving only those rights which have been given to my servant Joseph [Smith] by revelation and commandment and by legal Authority in times passed [past].
“If you both agree to covenant and do this, then I give you S. A. [Sarah Ann] Whitney my Daughter to Joseph Smith to be his wife to observe all the rights betwe[e]n you both that belong to that condition. I do it in my own name and in the name of my wife your mother and in the name of my Holy Progenitors by the right of birth which is of Priest Hood vested in me by revelation and commandment and promise of the living God obtained by the Holy Melchizedek Gethrow [Jethro] and other of the Holy Fathers commanding in the name of the Lord all those powers to concentrate in you and through to your po[s]terity for ever
all these things I do in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ that through this order he may be glorified [glorified] and [that] through the power of anointing Davied [David] may reign King over Iseral [Israel] which shall hereafter be revealed let immortality and eternal life henc[e]forth be sealed upon your heads forever and ever."
I know early in the church there was some doctrine given (probably purged now) regarding the lineage of the Melchizedek priesthood. (Which isn't supposed to be lineal)
The wording for Joseph and Sarah's ceremony seems to be loaded with it.
I'm thinking that seldom heard doctrine that Joseph was a descendent of Melchisedek, Jethro, King David and Christ, has to be where this concept comes from. Which would explain why Christ had to have been married and had a posterity (in the minds of church leadership).
When Joseph writes:
"...that through the power of anointing Davied [David] may reign King over Iseral [Israel] which shall hereafter be revealed."
I think he's writing about himself. I don't think he's writing about Christ.
Is this lineal High Priesthood why some of the early leadership considered themselves rightful heirs to the Melchizedek priesthood by virtue of being blood descendents of Christ?