Without Disclosing My True Identity
First Presidency and Council of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints in the Ensign, Nov. 1995: 102.
Lesson Manuals for 2011 include these lessons on the “eternal family”: “Lesson 35: The
Eternal Family,” Duties and Blessings of the Priesthood: Basic Manual for Priesthood Holders, Part A (1979,
Salt Lake City: LDS Church, 2000) 256–63; and “Chapter 36: The Family Can Be Eternal,” Gospel
Principles (1978, Salt Lake City: LDS Church, 2009) 207–11.
(^142) Jeremiah 7:6; Ezekiel 22:7.
(^143) BOM, Mormon 8:35–41; Ether 8:24.
(^144) BOM, 2 Nephi 9:6; LDS leadership speaks often of the “Plan of Salvation.” For example, see
Adhemar Damiani, “The Merciful Plan of the Great Creator,” Ensign, Mar. 2004: 8; and
Elder L. Tom Perry, “The Plan of Salvation,” Ensign, Nov. 2006: 69–72. Their “Plan of
Salvation” is grossly in error. To understand the correct “Plan” as Joseph hid it in the LDS
Temple Endowment, see Christopher, Sacred, not Secret—The [Authorized and] Official Guide In
Understanding the LDS Temple Endowment.
(^145) “Keep in mind, it was God who planted the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (which is the
Veil under which we suffer and experience the vicissitudes of life), thereby becoming the source of
both Good and Evil.” (SNS, 97.)
(^146) BOM, Moroni 7:11–19.
(^147) John 17:21–3.
(^148) BOM, 2 Nephi 9:2. “As we have witnessed the expansion of the work of the Lord over the
earth, we have been grateful that people of many nations have responded to the message of the
restored gospel, and have joined the Church in ever-increasing numbers.” (The First Presidency,
“Official Declaration—2,” D&C.)
(^149) Contrast this with the “fruit” of the MWAW. See “The ‘Fruit’ of this Work,” Marvelous
Work and a Wonder®, 2011, A Marvelous Work and a Wonder Purpose Trust, 17 Dec. 2011
http://marvelousworkandawonder.com/q_a/contents/1gen/q02/2gen006.htm.
(^150) BOM, 3 Nephi 2:2; Ezekiel 3:7.
(^151) See Revelation 13:10.
(^152) “God having provided some better things for them through their sufferings, for without
sufferings they could not be made perfect.” (JST, Hebrews 11:40); D&C, 122:7. See also BOM, 2 Nephi
2:2; “He shall consecrate thine afflictions for thy gain.”
(^153) Matthew 23:2.
(^154) “Any Latter-day Saint who denounces or opposes, whether actively or otherwise, any plan
or doctrine advocated by the ‘prophets, seers, revelators’ of the church is cultivating the spirit of
apostasy. One cannot speak evil of the Lord’s anointed and retain the Holy Spirit in his heart. ...This
sort of game is Satan’s favorite pastime, and he has practiced it on believing souls since Adam. He
[Satan] wins a great victory when he can get members of the church to speak against their leaders
and to ‘do their own thinking.’ ...When our leaders speak, the thinking has been done. When they
propose a plan—it is God’s Plan. When they point the way, there is no other which is safe. When they
give direction, it should mark the end of controversy, God works in no other way. To think
otherwise, without immediate repentance, may cost one his faith, may destroy his testimony, and
leave him a stranger to the kingdom of God.” (“Ward Teachers’ Message,” Deseret News, 26 May 1945,
Church Section: 5. Also included in the Improvement Era, June 1945 [which was the official church
magazine before the Ensign], emphasis added.)
Strangely, the Deseret News online archives are missing the Church Section of this issue
(http://news.google.com/newspapers/p/deseret_news?nid=Aul-
kAQHnToC&dat=19450526&printsec=frontpage&hl=en), the LDS Church News Archives don’t
go that far back (http://www.ldschurchnews.com/daily-index/1945/05/26/), and the
Improvement Era online archives require payment of a fee, except for here: