Today's Favorite Verse: Doctrine & Covenants 18:37-38

Today's Favorite Verse: Doctrine & Covenants 18:37-38
"And now, behold, I give unto you, Oliver Cowdery, and also unto David Whitmer, that you shall search out the Twelve, who shall have the desires of which I have spoken;
And by their desires and their works you shall know them."

This revelation was received in June 1829. That was even before the church was organized. I had not placed that the searching out of the twelve apostles was given to Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer at such an early point. It wasn't until 1835 that the twelve were called.

"The twelve traveling councilors are called to be the Twelve Apostles, or special witnesses of the name of Christ in all the world—thus differing from other officers in the church in the duties of their calling."
(Doctrine and Covenants 107:23)

Doctrine and Covenants 18:37. “You shall search out the Twelve”
At the time that the revelation in Doctrine and Covenants 18 was given, Martin Harris was not addressed in the Lord’s instructions. However, Martin later joined with Oliver Cowdery and David Whitmer in selecting the Twelve Apostles. The Three Witnesses, who had received a special witness of the truthfulness of the Restoration, fulfilled their assignment to “search out the Twelve” (D&C 18:37), who were then ordained as Apostles. When the Apostles were called in February 1835, Oliver Cowdery stated that from the time this revelation was received in 1829, “our minds have been on a constant stretch to find who these Twelve were” (in The Joseph Smith Papers, Documents, Volume 1: July 1828–June 1831, 70).
(Doctrine and Covenants Student Manual, Chapter 6: Doctrine and Covenants 7; 13; 18)

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