gdemetz wrote:The simple fact is that his quote from God was only to separate. ...
Nope. God is also quoted as promising to pay back the LDS for the way he was being persecuted. God said this to him:
.... told me to "separate myself from among the Latter Day Saints, for as they sought to do unto me, should it be done unto them."
And what (according to God) the LDS "sought to do unto" him sounds pretty serious:
I had been striving with them for a long time to show them the errors into which they were drifting, and for my labors I received only persecutions. In June, 1838, at Far West, Mo., a secret organization was formed, Doctor Avard being put in as the leader of the band; a certain oath was to be administered to all the brethern to bind them to support the heads of the church in everything they should teach. All who refused to take this oath were considered dissenters from the church, and certain things were to be done concerning these dissenters, by Dr. Avard's secret band. I make no farther statements now; but suffice it to say that my persecutions, for trying to show them their errors, became of such a nature that I had to leave the Latter Day Saints;