Trevor wrote:
Why is Snow not mentioned? There could be many different reasons, but I doubt that him being an evil druid lord is one of them. It is not my job to explain his absence, but your job to explain how it is that your explanation has any merit. There is absolutely no evidence, at all, that Snow or the British converts were druids. I am the descendant of British converts. I have read their family histories. I see no reference to anything Satanic, evil, magical, pagan, or the like. Nothing. There is nothing in my family lore that would suggest anything of the kind.
Your thesis about the druidic infiltration of Mormonism is the silliest kind of conspiracy theorizing and it has no basis in fact whatsoever. I challenge you to provide any substantive evidence of its truth. The best evidence, in fact, of magical practice among the Mormons comes from the time of the youth of Joseph Smith through the Nauvoo Period.
1. True saints make it or they fall hard all the way out. There is no middle ground with those made partakers of Christ's power.
a. Snow's absence therefore heralds him a Son of Perdition.
b. When then, did he fall? When he betrayed the secrets of Joseph Smith that laid the foundation of his murder. He became guilty of innocent blood and fell hard. Judas did not kill Christ only betrayed him. Lorenzo was in on all the secrets because his sister was.
2. What would Satan do with a highly placed insider?
a. Turn things upside down deftly and unnoticed with the aid of confederates a plenty from the ranks of the misbegotten bastard lines of England. (perhaps your line was not of that ilk)
b. Supplant Christ with doctrine that makes man the focus of the gospel. Exaltation unto Godhood really does that well. This would defeat the real gospel causing an apostasy, a falling away.
As man is God once was
As God is man may become
Lorenzo Snow
2 Thessalonians 2:3
3. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition
4. Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; (SEE THE COUPLET ABOVE)
so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.After THE TEMPLE of God was finished, the Salt Lake Temple, Who was it that took up his residence in that grand house, entertaining family and freinds, showing himself the owner as if he were God??????????
The first president of the Salt Lake Temple was ........
LORENZO SNOWTo complete the falling away and apostasy as it was in the days of the Nephite apostasy from Zion, for money they gave that which was sacred to those whom it had been forbidden.
The legacy of Lorenzo Snow is that all the doors open to full tithe payers. No discrimination as to who is truly born of God. That is lost and forgotten and the Mormons have moved on!
I grew up in the East Millcreek Stake where I know personally that many were into Satanism. My own parents whose both lines are British Isles, one a bastard line, practised witchcraft upon me and my two brothers and sister openly until I was seven years old. I have one memory that if true is fully as montrous as Elder Glen Pace believed and concluded to be real. His investigation and his conclusion and he made recommendations that were rebuffed and ignored.
O gee, who was it that pooh poohed Elder Pace. HINCKLEY the guy who was the East Millcreek Stake President when I was younger than seven.
It was prophecied that Satan, the Dragon would cast a flood out of his mouth to carry away the gospel in Revelation 12:15. When things get dicey you might just see the earth open its mouth and swallow up a good chunk of Druids.
The only evidence that there had been no villany would be a Zion fully clothed upon with the righteousness commanded from the beginning of the Restoration. Where is that evidence if there were no enemies within?
The prophecies of Isaiah say that they will flip things upside-down.
All manner of evil that Christ foretold in 3 Nephi 16 is not accomplished without some serious mysterious windings of very, very vile fellows.