“Nephi received power to bind on earth as in heaven [see Hel. 10:7]. … Nephi used the sealing power to create ‘a famine in the land, to stir up [the Nephites] in remembrance of the Lord their God’ (Hel. 11:4).
“This same sealing power was later given to the ancient Apostles Peter, James, and John (see Matt. 16:19) and the Prophet Joseph Smith and Oliver Cowdery in the latter days (see D&C 128:8–10; D&C 132:46)” (Black, 400 Questions and Answers, 171).