Joseph Smith Biography

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(^13) An opportunity to eliminate worldwide poverty and inequality is presented to the world
through the plan of the Worldwide United Foundation, established by this author and Those he is in
contact with. For details, see http://wwunited.org/.
(^14) Daniel 4:35; D&C, 76:3; TSP, chapter 80.
(^15) See also SNS, 79, 130. “This is not limited only to those ordained in the LDS church, but the
symbolic representation of ‘revelation’ is available to all those who have been washed and anointed to
become Priests and Priestesses, i.e., all of us. ...Both men and women put on these robes, which negates
any false doctrine that the woman is not entitled to the same priesthood equally with the man.”
(^16) See Introduction, n. 163.
(^17) TSP, 81:45–9.
(^18) As a purely technical matter, Mormon DID “write [their] names” among the twelve
“disciples whom Jesus had chosen” in 3 Nephi 19:4. Mormon simply didn’t identify “those who were
never to taste of death” because “the Lord forbade:...” (BOM, 3 Nephi 28:25.)
(^19) BOM, 3 Nephi 28:7–9, 13–17, 24–32.
(^20) Isaiah 29:14; BOM, 2 Nephi 25:17; 27:26.
(^21) BOM, 3 Nephi 28:33–5.
(^22) Christ lived only 33 years on earth, whereas “the Brothers” have lived for thousands of
years on earth.
(^23) “In these advanced societies, the technology that is available allows anyone to watch what
is happening on any planet in the Universe (much like using the computer effects of a Universal
Google™, or watching a documentary about a foreign country in real time on the Discovery
Channel™. (HR, 5:14.)
(^24) HR, 9:12.
(^25) HR, 13:22.
(^26) Acts 7:38; 8:26; 27:23.
(^27) Amos 3:7; Colossians 2:18, 22; Titus 1:14.
(^28) D&C, 35:18; 38:32; 105:12; Romans 16:25; 1 Corinthians 2:7; 4:1; 13:2; Ephesians 3:3–4,
9–10; Colossians 1:26; 2:2.
(^29) SNS, 94–5, 114–15; Isaiah 1:11–13; Acts 7:48; 17:24; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 6:19; 2 Corinthians 6:16.
(^30) D&C, 38:13; Romans 11:7; 1 Thessalonians 5:6; BOM, Alma 12:9–11.
(^31) BOM, 1 Nephi 10:19; Alma 12:9–11; 26:22; D&C, 76:5.
(^32) Ezekiel 12:2; Matthew 13:13–15; 2 Timothy 3:7.
(^33) SNS, 94–6.
(^34) Refer to Appendix 1, “The LDS Priesthood Unveiled”: “It was not unusual for Joseph to use
pseudonyms to protect the identity of certain names. Up until more modern times, many references
in the D&C were coded names. Joseph was ‘Gazelam’ or ‘Enoch,’ and Oliver was ‘Olihah.’ If the LDS
people truly knew Joseph Smith’s heart, they would have realized that the mention of ‘Peter, James,
and John’ in their scriptures, referring to those ‘whom I have sent unto you, by whom I have ordained you
and confirmed you to be apostles, and especial witnesses of my name, and bear the keys of your ministry and of
the same things which I revealed unto them,’ was really a code name for ‘the Three Nephites.’ Joseph
knew it would be a lot easier for those of the biblical world to accept the story of the priesthood
coming from the recognized Bible characters of Peter, James, and John than it would be for them to
accept the obscure apostles, Timothy, Mathoni, and Mathonihah, named in the Book of Mormon.”
(^35) D&C, 93:30.
(^36) Ecclesiastes 3:1.
(^37) JST, Hebrews 11:40. “God having provided some better things for them through their sufferings,
for without sufferings they could not be made perfect. See also HR, 3:27; 13:12;
Before she died on December 5, 1887, Eliza R. Snow told her brother Lorenzo Snow that she
“was a firm believer in the principle of multiple probations...[Having] received it from Joseph the
Prophet.” (Eliza R. Snow, “Past and Present,” Woman’s Exponent 15 [1 Aug. 1886]: 37.)

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