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The place where Adam shall come to visit his people (D&C 116)... (and where Adam blessed his posterity after leaving the Garden of Eden - 107:53–57).
Adam-ondi-Ahman (Aka Spring Hill)
The headquarters of the Church was primarily in Kirtland from 1831 to 1838.
Kirtland, OH
D&C 115:4 states this about what His Church shall be called in the last days
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Webster's definition of Tithe
A tenth part of something paid as a voluntary contribution or as a tax especially for the support of a religious establishment
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Two places the Saints were driven from before arriving at Far West.
Independence, MO (the center place of Zion) and Kirtland, OH (leaving their beloved temple after only two years.)
The Lord identified this place as the center place of Zion in July 1831 (see D&C 57:3). Mobs forced the Saints out of here in November 1833.
Independence (in Jackson County, Missouri)
D&C 115: 5-6 says this about the newly named Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
5 Verily I say unto you all: Arise and shine forth, that thy light may be a standard for the nations; 6 And that the gathering together upon the land of Zion, and upon her stakes, may be for a defense, and for a refuge from the storm, and from wrath when it shall be poured out without mixture upon the whole earth.
The term tithing in the prayer just quoted and in previous revelations (D&C 64:23; 85:3; 97:11) meant this.
To give not just one-tenth, but all free-will offerings, or contributions, to the Church funds.
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The number of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles who turned against the Prophet Joseph Smith before the Saints began to build up in Far West.
Four
The Saints from Jackson County gathered in Clay County from 1833 to 1836, when they were again required to leave. The Prophet Joseph Smith and five others were unjustly imprisoned here from December 1838 to April 1839.
Liberty, MO
According to D&C 117:1-11, what were the names of the two who were asked to leave Kirkland and go to Adam-ondi-Ahman to serve the Lord?
William Marks ("to preside in the midst of my people in the city of Far West") and Newel K. Whitney ("to be Bishop unto my people"),
In D&C 119: 1–5, The Saints are to pay this...
Their surplus property and then give, as tithing, one-tenth of their interest annually.
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Instead of focusing on what they lost prior to Far West, the faithful did this at Far West... (Doctrine and Covenants 117:13).
They just kept building Zion. They made plans for a new temple. Four new Apostles were called. They understood that doing God’s work doesn’t mean you never fall; it means you “rise again.” And though you’ll have to make sacrifices, those sacrifices are sacred to God, even “more sacred … than [your] increase”
A refuge was established here for the Saints 1836–38. It was the headquarters of the Church in 1838. In 1838–39 the Saints were forced to flee to Illinois.
Far West
This prophet said that the Church’s name is “a matter of great importance” (“The Correct Name of the Church,” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2018, 87).
President Russell M. Nelson
Reasons the Lord requires tithing and surplus property to be put into the hands of the bishop of His church in Zion. (D&C 119:1-2)
2 For the building of mine house, and for the laying of the foundation of Zion and for the priesthood, and for the debts of the Presidency of my Church.
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