Current Usage
At the biannual general conference of the LDS Church, the name of the President of the Church is presented to the membership of the church as "prophet, seer, and revelator and President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". The membership of the church are invited to vote to "sustain" the president in these roles by the raising of the hand. The signalling of any opposing votes is also called for. Additionally, the counselors in the First Presidency and the members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles are sustained by the membership as "prophets, seers, and revelators". Until October 1979, the Presiding Patriarch of the church was also sustained as a "prophet, seer, and revelator". Apostles that are not members of the Quorum of the Twelve or the First Presidency are not sustained as prophets, seers, and revelators.
The procedure of "sustaining" the prophets, seers, and revelators is repeated in local congregations of the church several times per year at stake, district, ward, or branch conferences. These procedures are mandated by the theology of the LDS Church, which dictates that the church shall be governed by the common consent of the membership. Prophet was first mention in Genesis 20:7. Prophets were first called seers 1Samuel 9:9
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