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In January 1831, the Lord instructed early members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to “go to the Ohio” where they would be given God’s law and “endowed with power from on high” (Doctrine and Covenants 38:32).
The following month, the Prophet Joseph Smith and his pregnant wife, Emma Smith, moved to Kirtland, Ohio. They worked to establish their home and the Church, and, in March 1836, Joseph dedicated a temple. The Heavens rejoiced and the Saints received an outpouring of spiritual gifts and manifestations.
Fleeing persecution in 1838, they left their beloved temple behind.
Now 187 years later, members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Ohio are once again “endowed with power from on high” in their home state.
On Sunday, June 4, President M. Russell Ballard, Acting President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, rededicated the Columbus Ohio Temple, located 160 miles southwest of Kirtland.
Closed for three years to undergo extensive renovation, the 11,745-square-foot temple sits on five acres in central Ohio.
Every temple displays the words, “Holiness to the Lord. The House of the Lord,” he told the Church News. “I testify that the temples are the houses of the Lord. It is here where Heavenly Father instructs His children and helps us prepare to return to His presence. It is here where we receive personal revelation, make covenants with Heavenly Father, the Savior, and participate in eternal ordinances.”
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