“That We May Prepare the Way”
Joseph Smith was a messenger sent before the face of the Lord to prepare a people on earth for that day which will be both great and dreadful (Malachi 3:1; 3 Nephi 24:1; Joseph Smith History 1:36). For that matter, the gospel plan restored through him -the new and everlasting covenant- was dispensed to earth to serve a preparatory function. “I have sent mine everlasting covenant into the world,” the Savior declared, “to be a light to the world, and to be a standard for my people, and for the Gentiles to seek to it, and to be a messenger before my face to prepare the way before me” (D&C 45:9; italics added).
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