The following are some of Joseph Smith's "Revelations" on the subject of
the temple, extracted from the "Times and Seasons" for June 1, 1841.
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, let all my saints come from afar,
and send ye swift messengers, yea, chosen messengers, and say unto
them, Come ye with all your gold, and your silver, and your precious
stones, and with all your antiquities; and all who have knowledge
of antiquities that will come, may come; and bring the box-tree, and
the fir-tree, and the pine-tree, together with all the precious
trees of the earth; and with iron, and with copper, and with brass,
and with zinc, and with all your precious things of the earth; and
build a house to my name, for the Most High to dwell therein: for
there is not a place found upon earth, that he may come and restore
again that which was lost unto you, or which he hath taken away,
even the fulness of the priesthood.
"* * * And again, verily, I say unto you, how shall your washings be
acceptable unto me, except ye perform them in a house which you have
built to my name? For this cause, I commanded Moses that he should
build a tabernacle, that they should bear it in the wilderness, and
to build a house in the land of promise, that those ordinances might
be revealed which had been hid from before the world was. * * * *
"And verily I say unto you, let this house be built unto my name,
that I may reveal mine ordinances therein unto my people; for I
design to reveal unto my church things which have been kept hid from
the foundation of the world; things that pertain to the dispensation
of the fulness of times. And I will show unto my servant Joseph, all
things pertaining to this house, and the priesthood thereof, and the
place whereon it shall be built. * * * * And it shall come to pass,
that if you build a house unto my name, and do not the things that I
say, I will not perform the oath which I make unto you; neither
fulfil the promises which ye expect at my hands, saith the Lord:
for instead of blessings, ye by your own works, bring cursings,
wrath, indignation, and judgment upon your own heads by your
follies, and by all your abominations which you practise before me,
saith the Lord."