Without Disclosing My True Identity
When Joseph began his role in the latter part of 1827, he attempted to give the people
“the portion of his word which he doth grant unto the children of men.” He tried to teach the
people what the “mark” was that they had “looked beyond,” which then required him to do
things that would cause them to stumble. (This will be discussed in more detail in an
upcoming chapter.) The “mark” was nothing more or less than the “fullness of the everlasting
Gospel as delivered by the Savior.”^15 It is the exact same thing that Jesus taught the Jews. This
mark—the fullness of the everlasting Gospel—can be found in the Bible in Matthew 5, 6, and
7,^16 and in the Book of Mormon in 3 Nephi 12, 13, and 14. Had the people accepted this “gospel”
alone as their guide, there would have been no Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints—
one of the greatest stumbling blocks the world has ever known.^17
The people rejected the simplicity of the everlasting gospel and instead desired a
religion, a church, ordinances, priesthood, atonement, baptism, and many other things
“which they [could not] understand.”^18 The advanced human monitors knew that mortals
usually give in to human nature and reject the simple, straight and narrow way. But the
people had to be given the chance to exercise their free will and choice.^19 Joseph needed
highly proficient guidance so that he would be able to give them this chance by leading
them to the “water.” And when people failed to “drink,” which they almost always do,
Joseph needed the expertise to deliver a palatable religion (as they desired) that would
incorporate into its presentation the necessary parables and stumbling blocks that, in the
end, would leave them without an excuse for their behavior.
The Hard Truth Concerning God’s Nonintervention
To give the reader a better insight into the type of instruction that Joseph needed
during this seven-year training period, the following important “mystery of the kingdom of
God” pursuant to “a fullness thereof” needs to be more fully explained. This concept
(though painful it might be to the pious Mormon/Christian/Muslim/Jew/etc. religious
human ego) is this:
there is no such being as a God who hears and answers our prayers and who
intervenes in an individual’s life according to one’s petitions and sense of
“righteousness.”Joseph had as his purpose, in the following dialogue-description of “God” in the
temple endowment, to “mimic” the very kind of God the LDS believed in. When humans
talk vainly into the atmosphere (as “prayerful people” do), they speak precisely to the god
in which they believe. And Joseph’s guile showed that there was no such entity as a god—
who is without body, parts, and passions; who sits on the top of a topless
throne; who His center is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere;
who fills the universe, and yet is so small that He can dwell in your heart;
who is surrounded by myriads of beings who have been saved by grace, not
for any act of theirs, but by His good pleasure.^20Within the context of true reality, this one concept (of many) now disclosed, explains
why Joseph would have been rejected and killed by his own followers had he revealed it to them. In
fact, it was this very same concept that caused the people to rise up and kill Jesus.