Posted by:
The 1st FreeAtLast
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Date: June 17, 2013 05:14AM
For many years, up to an including earlier this year, the LDS Church's summary for D&C 132 said: "Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded 12 July 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant, and also the plurality of wives (see History of the Church, 5:501–7). Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, it is evident from the historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation had been known by the Prophet since 1831."
It has since been slightly altered to: "Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded July 12, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant and the principle of plural marriage. Although the revelation was recorded in 1843, evidence indicates that some of the principles involved in this revelation were known by the Prophet as early as 1831."
One of the "principles" "revealed" to JS (supposedly) is explained in verses 61 and 62, as follows:
61 And again, as pertaining to the law of the priesthood—if any man espouse [marry] a virgin, and desire to espouse another, and the first [wife] give her consent, and if he espouse the second, and they are virgins, and have vowed to no other man, then is he justified; he cannot commit adultery for they are given unto him; for he cannot commit adultery with that that belongeth unto him and to no one else.
62 And if he have ten virgins given unto him by this law, he cannot commit adultery, for they belong to him, and they are given unto him; therefore is he justified.
(Ref.
https://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/132.61-62?lang=eng)
In other words, Mormon priesthood holders, starting with JS, were to restrict their desiring to "virgins...vowed to no other man." However, he targeted the wives (non-virgins, each vowed to her husband) of at least 11 Mormon men. The list is at
http://www.wivesofjosephsmith.org/ (look under the right column, “Husbands”).
Also, in the case of teenagers Fanny Alger, Lucy Walker, and other females whom JS made his wives, he did not seek “consent” from “the first”, i.e., Emma. Historian Todd Compton's ground-breaking book, "In Sacred Loneliness: The Plural Wives of Joseph Smith", contains the relevant details.
Violating "the doctrines and principles involved in this revelation...known by the Prophet since 1831" made JS, per his written "revelation", which subsequently became LDS scripture, an adulterer. According to D&C 76:103, adulterers will spend eternity in the hellish Telestial Kingdom. Mormon "prophets" since JS have repeatedly said that adultery is a sin next only to murder in terms of wickedness.
The so-called "Prophet of the Restoration" was anything but a "Saint"!