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To restore means to return to a former condition or to bring back. The term restoration and its synonym restitution have multiple meanings in the scriptures and in Latter-day Saint teachings. The most common use of the term refers to the series of events and divine revelations whereby the fulness of gospel principles, ordinances, priesthood authority, and the true Church of Jesus Christ were restored to the earth. These events, beginning with Joseph Smith’s First Vision in 1820, the translation and publication of the Book of Mormon, and the organization of the Church in 1830, are all part of what Latter-day Saints refer to as the Restoration—the fulfillment of Peter’s prophecy of “the times of restitution” that will precede the second coming of Christ (Acts 3:21; see also Matthew 17:11; Ephesians 1:10; Revelation 14:6–7; 1 Nephi 13:20–34; 2 Nephi 9:2; D&C 1; 110; 112:30; Joseph Smith–History 1).— LDS Beliefs
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