Shulem wrote: ↑Fri Apr 23, 2021 6:17 pm
God commands two things at the hand of Joseph Smith:
- Make a solemn proclamation to all nations of the earth
- Let it be written in the spirit of meekness
We know that Smith failed to send out a proclamation by
swift messengers, yea, chosen messengers (124:26) to all the kings and leaders of the earth. We know that Smith failed to build the Nauvoo House and also the Missouri temple. We also know that kings and leaders of nations did not come to visit the cornerstone of Zion whereby gold and silver was not gifted to Smith’s cause. It might be said that the revelation of Section 124 or a portion therefrom serves as the very proclamation that Smith intended to send to the nations of the earth, via William Law (124:107). A copy of the revelation was buried in the cornerstone of the Nauvoo House with the Book of Mormon manuscript. It’s certainly a fair assumption to think the revelation is in keeping with a proclamation, but it’s also clear that the proclamation was not printed and delivered by
swift messengers, yea, chosen messengers to all the kings and leaders of foreign countries. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that the revelation of D&C 124 is the proclamation and in keeping with the spirit and message that would emanate from it. Is it
written in the spirit of meekness?
Let’s examine the revelation and see just how meek it really is:
D&C 124 wrote:
106 And in all his journeyings let him lift up his voice as with the sound of a trump, and warn the inhabitants of the earth to flee the wrath to come.
107 Let him assist my servant Joseph, and also let my servant William Law assist my servant Joseph, in making a solemn proclamation unto the kings of the earth, even as I have before said unto you.
The spirit of meekness doesn’t seem in harmony with sending
swift and
chosen messengers to raise a loud voice like the sound of trumpet and warn leaders of nations to flee from the wrath to come! Where is the meekness in that?
D&C 124 wrote:
119 And again, verily I say unto you, let no man pay stock to the quorum of the Nauvoo House unless he shall be a believer in the Book of Mormon, and the revelations I have given unto you, saith the Lord your God;
120 For that which is more or less than this cometh of evil, and shall be attended with cursings and not blessings, saith the Lord your God. Even so. Amen.
Now comes a spirit of threatening and cursing against those who fail to live up to the standards imposed. Earlier in the revelation, Smith called upon the kings of the earth to bring their gold and their silver to help build up the cornerstone of Zion which also includes the Nauvoo House:
11 “Awake, O kings of the earth! Come ye, O, come ye, with your gold and your silver, to the help of my people, to the house of the daughters of Zion.”
26 “And send ye swift messengers, yea, chosen messengers, and say unto them: Come ye, with all your gold, and your silver”
But now Smith forbids anyone to pay stock into the Nauvoo House unless they are a believer in the Book of Mormon and the revelations. So why expect kings and leaders of nations to come and plop gold and silver at his feet when they are not believers? This is a double standard. Other portions of the revelation hardly seem meek but are fitted with threats and curses against those who fail to subject themselves to the will of Joseph Smith. This is not the invitation made by someone who is meek. This is not
MEEKNESS! This is breathing out threats and terrible curses against those who refuse to bend the knee to one’s tyrannical orders.
D&C 124 wrote:7 Call ye, therefore, upon them with loud proclamation, and with your testimony, fearing them not, for they are as grass, and all their glory as the flower thereof which soon falleth, that they may be left also without excuse—
8 And that I may visit them in the day of visitation, when I shall unveil the face of my covering, to appoint the portion of the oppressor among hypocrites, where there is gnashing of teeth, if they reject my servants and my testimony which I have revealed unto them.
9 And again, I will visit and soften their hearts, many of them for your good, that ye may find grace in their eyes, that they may come to the light of truth, and the Gentiles to the exaltation or lifting up of Zion.
10 For the day of my visitation cometh speedily, in an hour when ye think not of; and where shall be the safety of my people, and refuge for those who shall be left of them?
Folks, the spirit of Joseph Smith’s proclamation is anything but the spirit of meekness. The world is better off because Nauvoo failed. There is no telling what Joseph Smith hoped to achieve in his political aspirations in pushing his agenda on the country and the rest of the world. In my view, the world was a safer place without Joseph Smith. It’s frightening to think what that man was really hoping to achieve.