SACRIFICIAL ALTAR IN THE SL TEMPLE?

 This is an interesting quote from a DoC group discussion.  I think it was meant to indict Brigham Young, not to bolster his case.  Either way, Wilford Woodruff was making stuff up or not.  I doubt it is made up.  As the guy who was calling the shots on the SL temple, he would have added what he wanted to add to that building.

Here is the quote:

“LDS President Wilford Woodruff recorded the following information given to him in a meeting with Brigham Young: “Under the pulpit in the west End [of the SLC Temple ] will be a place to Offer Sacrafizes. [sp] There will be an Altar prepared for that purposes [sp] so that when any sacrifices are to be offered they should be offered there.” (Wilford Woodruff’s Journal: 1833-1898, December 18, 1857, vol. 5, p. 140.)

I have gotten into a few bitter fights with this quote since we have clear direction that Christ was the great and last sacrifice (which He was).  But many people say that all that was done away in Christ (the Law of Moses stuff).  But we also have the quote by Joseph Smith and many other quotes that the Sons of Levi still have to complete a sacrifice again in righteousness.  I am sure that this is a physical sacrifice.  And I do NOT believe it is only limited to those over in Jerusalem, because I believe the Ten Tribes will return with the lesser Priesthood and will still be in that mode.

Here was my response to the BY haters and the jury is still out for me on the whole topic:

you have made a fundamental error in logic, which I also have until a decade ago.

Adam and Eve sacrificed long before Moses ever was. The portions of the Law laid out in the last three books of the Pentateuch was removed. Sacrifice was not. The very first ordinance in an upward progression (commanded of Adam and Eve even before baptism occurred) would imply that this would be something that would come first, thus below the level of the baptismal font in a temple that leads up ramps to ever increasing levels of enlightenment.