[Elsie]

  15 After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go,

 having looked around me, and finding myself alone,

 I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God.

 

I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was ^aseized upon by some power

which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me

as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick ^bdarkness gathered around me,

and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

 

http://lds.org/scriptures/pgp/js-h/1.15?lang=eng#15

[Elsie]

...it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

You were; JS; you were.

Just not at that appointed time.

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But the prophet, who being corrupted with pride, shall speak in my name things that I did not command him to say, or in the name of strange gods, shall be slain.

(Deuteronomy 18:20)

[SENTINEL]

I have often wondered if Smith made the whole thing up or was visited by demons in that grove.

2 Corinthians 11:14
And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.