Without Disclosing My True Identity
An Ensign to All Nations
LDS/Mormon critical histories point out the obvious about Brigham Young’s
agenda in Europe:
Brigham Young was convinced that emigration was the only solution for
Europe’s “overpopulation” and made this the theme of many of his sermons.
Soon the missionaries were publishing in Liverpool a little journal called the
Millennial Star, which frequently had the ring of a real-estate agency
propaganda pamphlet:“Living [in America] is about one-eighth of what it costs in this country.
...millions on millions of acres of land lie before them unoccupied, with
soil as rich as Eden, and a surface as smooth, clear and ready for the
plough as the park scenery of England. Instead of a lonely swamp or
dense forest filled with savages, wild beasts and serpents, large cities and
villages are springing up in their midst, with schools, colleges, and
temples...there being abundant room for more than a hundred millions of
inhabitants.” [Millennial Star, February 1, 1842.]^18The Millennial Star became the LDS Church’s most influential and longest-running
continual publication.^19 In 1970, it and the Improvement Era, the LDS Church’s American
flagship magazine, were discontinued and renamed the Ensign. In not so much as a single
publication or issue of the Star, the Era, or the Ensign would the Church of Jesus Christ of
Latter-day Saints ever publish the “fullness of the everlasting Gospel as delivered by the
Savior”—not once!^20 The Ensign publication bolsters the position of the Saints as a “peculiar
people,”^21 those with the “only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth,”^22
special above all other people in the world.
The magazine in modern times shares stories and pictures boasting of the happiness
its Saints are experiencing by being successful in having their own Church-owned “schools,
colleges, and temples,”^23 along with millions of dollars in real estate, business, and other
worldly interests.^24 Their proclaimed “success” has now culminated in a multi-billion dollar
megamall^25 only a stone’s throw away from its ostentatious Salt Lake City, Utah temple and
one of the grandest conference centers the world has ever known.^26
Pursuing the Desires of the “Great and Abominable” Church
Behold, there are save two churches only; the one is the church of the Lamb
of God, and the other is the church of the devil; wherefore, whoso belongeth
not to the church of the Lamb of God belongeth to that great church, which is
the mother of abominations. *** I beheld this great and abominable church;
and I saw the devil that he was the founder of it. ...Behold the gold, and the
silver, and the silks, and the scarlets, and the fine-twined linen, and the
precious clothing, and the harlots, are the desires of this great and
abominable church.^27