“And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments,” ironically begging Lazarus to relieve his suffering. When the two men died, angels carried Lazarus into Abraham’s bosom while the rich man went to hell. In the Savior’s story as recorded in Luke, the rich man had “fared sumptuously” in life while a “beggar named Lazarus” waited in vain for some of his table scraps. This potent passage in Doctrine and Covenants 104 obviously draws on the New Testament story of Lazarus and the rich man in Luke 16:19–31, especially verse 23. In decreeing the doctrines of stewardship and accountability over the abundance of the earth, the Lord requires that the rich share with the poor: “If any man take of the abundance which I have made, and impart not his portion, according to the law of my gospel, unto the poor and the needy, he shall, with the wicked, lift up his eyes in hell, being in torment” (104:18, 1981 edition, emphasis added). Section 104 affirms that principle with crystal clarity: “I, the Lord, stretched out the heavens, and built the earth, my very handiwork and all things therein are mine” (D&C 104:14). The scriptures have long declared the first principle of consecration-“the earth is the Lord’s” (Exodus 9:29). No revelation more emphatically sets forth the law of consecration than Doctrine and Covenants 104:13–18.

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