Thirty-Nine (1844)who desired something more than the “everlasting gospel” in Joseph’s time, and who
reject its fullness in the latter days. Again, these same ones are also those who were once
Jews living at Jerusalem and who rejected their own Christ. In this way, they have proven
to themselves and to others that they cannot be trusted with the very power that they
claim to possess—“the rights of the priesthood [that] are inseparably connected to the
powers of heaven, and that the powers of heaven cannot be controlled nor handled only
upon the principles of righteousness.”^56
The resurrected Joseph knows each of these men and women. He places no blame on
them for rejecting him or the “everlasting gospel.”^57 The LDS/Mormon experiment was set up
so that they would stumble and learn.^58 It was set up for all of the inhabitants of the earth so
that we might observe the inability of those people to “work righteousness” who are given
so many clues and chances. From this, we could all come to realize that, without a Christ
overseeing all of our actions, we are not perfectly happy, and that we indeed need him.^59
One of the Final and Biggest Stumbling Blocks for the LDS People
In January of 1844, Joseph introduced another stumbling block for the Saints—the
stumbling block of “sealing,” which came to be associated with marriages, families, baptisms
for the dead, and other ordinances, as previously discussed. He allowed that stumbling block
to be created based on way his scribes took notes of his sermons and altering his meaning
through their interpolations. Clues of how far the members of the Church had fallen from the
truth are found in two of Joseph’s final, important sermons, as they ended up being recorded.
First, in the meeting on Sunday, January 21, 1844, Joseph asked,
What shall I talk about to-day [sic]? I know what Brother Cahoon wants me
to speak about. He wants me to speak about the coming of Elijah in the last
days. I can see it in his eye. I will speak upon that subject then.^60(For God hath taken away his plainness from them, and delivered unto them many
things which they cannot understand, because they desired it. And because they
desired it God hath done it that they may stumble.)^61Joseph did not speak about what he wanted to speak about; he spoke about what
Reynolds Cahoon desired. Again, Joseph delivered unto the people many things that they
could not understand, all of which contradicted what he had previously taught the people,
but which they could not see, neither did they understand. Joseph quoted the last verse of
the Old Testament, as it was mistranslated:
I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day
of the Lord; And he shall turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the
hearts of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.^62Joseph then mortared what has become the greatest single stumbling block of the
LDS people—the sealing blessings of the temple. The LDS/Mormons are eager and willing
to give 10% or more of their income to have spouses and children sealed to themselves; it is
a cash cow for the LDS Church of incalculable value and perpetual income. The false
promises of the “sealing” create an irrevocable delusion in the minds of Latter-day Saints.