Something I'm considering this morning:

Remember in the ten talks when Denver said he wished the talks were given by ten different people "But apparently, in the economy of God, no one else was willing to do it"? Was this the beginning of condemnation that we relied on one man?

Many, like me, rejoiced over the tenth talk, feeling finally free from bondage.

In his interview with Tim Malone he said he mourned for days over the tenth talk. Why was he mourning? The fall of the LDS church happened months before. To Tim he said it was because of his love and devotion to the church, and that private knowledge wasn't something he wanted to make public. Could it have had anything to do with our idolatry?

"Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice; Surely they shall not see the land which I sware unto their fathers, neither shall any of them that provoked me see it." (Numbers 14:22)

If you consider the ten talks to be ten miracles, as Denver points out in the Book of Mormon, it is a more difficult miracle to understand teaching than it is to receive healing. They were ten miracles Israel's children should have been doing for themselves, but apparently, they weren't willing.

List of the ten temptations

Was I rejoicing in being free from one bondage, to land, like the children of Israel, into another?

Denver said those talks were the Lord's material. Take Denver out of it and consider those talks as miracles that the Lord gave to the wicked Gentiles. Then, after His miracles, the Lord waited to see how we would respond. Then, just before it was given, the tenth talk was revealed and a new church order was established.

The response to the nine was not, "Yeah, let me go find someone who knows the ordinance and get baptized." It wasn't "Yeah, I'm going to rely on the Lord." It was "Denver, tell us what to do next!"