Those of you familiar with D&C 132, does it actually specify that sealings must only be preformed in the temple? I know others here are more familiar with the wording and text of the "revelation." Does it actually specify temples? Or could the church, if it wanted, have sealings anywhere so long as a "sealer" is officiating?

Were ANY of Joe's marriages performed in a temple? I don't think so. He was "sealed" to multiple women before he was even sealed to Emma.

The temple is the icon, the holy of holy's. People will travel miles, spend all their money, just to arrive at the house of the lord to be sealed. Before temples they used endowment houses. So yes they could do sealings anywhere they want to. Any rule written about where a sealing can take place, they wrote. It's a control mechanism. The "church" can do anything they choose to do, wherever they choose, because they make it all up anyway.



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I wonder what would happen if a couple insisted on being sealed outside of the temple. Hmm...

rainwriter Wrote:
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> I wonder what would happen if a couple insisted on
> being sealed outside of the temple. Hmm...


The couple could insist until their faces turned purple but probably wouldn't get what they wanted.

I just finished painting the ceiling in my daughter's bathroom. No temple in site!

In the old pre easy access to the temple days sealings were done on the mountain side, in a building called the endowment house and sometimes in churches or homes.

In the 60s or 70s I remember talks of having sealing rooms in stake centers.

The Nauvoo Temple ceased performances of any ordinances in
1846. There was no operating temple in Nauvoo during Joseph
Smith's lifetime, so any "sealings" that were performed
involving Joseph Smith (supposedly at least 32 of them)
happened outside of a temple.

The next temple after the Nauvoo temple, was the St. George
temple which was dedicated April 6, 1877. That's over 30 years
with no operating temple. During that time thousands of
sealings were performed.

"We also have the privilege of sealing women to men, without a
Temple. This we can do in the Endowment House; but when we come
to other sealing ordinances, ordinances pertaining to the holy
Priesthood, to connect the chain of the Priesthood from father
Adam until now, by sealing children to their parents, being
sealed for our forefathers, etc., they cannot be done without a
Temple. But we can seal women to men, but not men to men,
without a Temple."
--Brigham Young, Sept. 4, 1873, (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 16, p. 186)



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baura Wrote:
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> The Nauvoo Temple ceased performances of any
> ordinances in
> 1846. There was no operating temple in Nauvoo
> during Joseph
> Smith's lifetime, so any "sealings" that were
> performed
> involving Joseph Smith (supposedly at least 32 of
> them)
> happened outside of a temple.

Sorry, I don't follow your logic here.... what about pre-Joe's death, in the Nauvoo T.?



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Several of JS's "weddings" took place in private homes, at least one in a park (with the bride in men's clothing) and one I know of in a back yard. But they don't do it anymore.