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REXBURG, IDAHO — In a devotional address May 22, Elder Merrill J. Bateman of the Presidency of the Seventy taught BYU-Idaho students about the Lord's promise that "nothing shall be withheld."
He said that during a bleak moment the Prophet Joseph Smith pleaded for the Lord's help, asking Him to remember the suffering saints. The result of this prayer was a remarkable revelation, the 121st Section of the Doctrine and Covenants. In this section, it is revealed that adversity and afflictions would be "but a small moment" (Doctrine and Covenants 121:7).
Elder Bateman said that at that moment, the Lord also told Joseph great knowledge was about to be revealed to the earth through the power of the Holy Ghost. It would be "a time to come in which nothing will be withheld... All thrones and dominions, principalities and powers, shall be revealed" (Doctrine and Covenants 121: 28-31).
During the last days, all knowledge will be revealed, including the laws that govern the earth along with those that are spiritual in nature, Elder Bateman said.
