Twenty-Six (1831)Currently, there are tens of thousands of LDS/Mormon missionaries worldwide.
They’re still salesmen, but instead of focusing their salesmanship on the Book of Mormon,
they sell the modern-day Law of Moses—the Church, Priesthood authority, the revisionist
history of Brigham Young, and many later-proclaimed “doctrines of salvation” that were
introduced years after Joseph was killed.
Today, in the greatest sales pitch ever used, the missionaries teach that a family can
be sealed together forever in one of the growing number of LDS Temples throughout the
world.^7 Ironically, it is not a requirement to read the Book of Mormon and abide by its
precepts,^8 but it is a strict religious requirement to follow rigid rules of carnal conduct
devised by men. These include attending church, supporting LDS/Mormon leaders, and
paying a “full tithe” in order to get the “recommend” necessary to go to the temple, where
church ordinances are performed and family sealings take place. In the modern-day
version of the “Law of Moses,” these “laws of carnal commandments” that LDS members
must follow are a strict lifestyle code, aspects by which not even Joseph Smith, Jr. or the
Christ himself abided.
Modern LDS/Mormon missionaries no longer sell the Book of Mormon for a profit;
but, more profitably, they sell their temples’ sealing power for 10% of a person’s gross
income.^9 Only a “full tithe payer” can enter a temple^10 and receive those rites associated
with the most innovative religious marketing concept ever introduced in the religious
history of this earth—the eternal family unit. Joseph Smith had nothing to do with the
fabrication of this concept,^11 nor does the idea of an “eternal family unit” exist anywhere
within the “everlasting Gospel...as delivered by the Savior,”^12 who instead said only, “for
whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother [in
other words, my family].”^13
Accepting His Role as Moses
“And it came to pass,”^14 that Joseph eventually stopped complaining about his
role as the modern-day Moses. He learned with increasing clarity, from his experiences
with the people, about the necessity of his part. He understood his role and the
consequences that would follow and that these experiences were a necessary part of
human development upon this earth. He threw himself into it with all of his “heart,
might, mind, and strength,”^15 and required the same dedication from others. In many of
his early “Patriarchal Blessings” and “revelations,” Joseph used similar terminology to
encourage and motivate his followers who wanted to perform some role associated with
his work, always hiding the real truth within its composition:
Now behold, a marvelous work is about to come forth among the children of
men. Therefore, O ye that embark in the service of God, see that ye serve him
with all your heart, might, mind and strength, that ye may stand blameless
before God at the last day. Therefore, if ye have desires to serve God ye are
called to the work; For behold the field is white already to harvest; and lo, he
that thrusteth in his sickle with his might, the same layeth up in store that he
perisheth not, but bringeth salvation to his soul; And faith, hope, charity, and
love with an eye single to the glory of God, quality him for the work.
Remember faith, virtue, knowledge, temperance, patience, brotherly