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My lineage in the house of Israel is through the tribe of Ephraim

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Son of Rachel, Jacob’s second wife (Gen. 30: 22-24; Gen. 37: 3). An extensive account of his life is given in Gen. 37 - 50. The story is especially instructive in showing the discipline of misfortune and also that the Lord rewards his obedient children according to their faithfulness.

The story of Joseph is also an illustration of the way in which God works in history, preserving his people. Joseph’s valor in resisting the allurements of Potiphar’s wife is an unequaled example of faith, chastity, and personal purity. His protection was his faith, as illustrated by his words: “How then can I do this great wickedness, and sin against God” (Gen. 39: 9). In the N.T. Joseph is mentioned only once (Heb. 11: 21-22), as an example of faith.

Joseph obtained the birthright in Israel because he was worthy and because it was his natural right. When Reuben, the actual firstborn, lost the privilege by transgression (1 Chr. 5: 1-2), Joseph, as the firstborn son of Jacob’s second wife, was next in line for the blessing. Joseph was a visionary man, a dreamer and interpreter of dreams, “a man in whom the Spirit of God is” (Gen. 41: 38).

Special blessings and prophecies on the head of Joseph and his posterity are found in Gen. 48: 1-22; Gen. 49: 1, 22-26; and Deut. 33: 13-17. When Joseph died in Egypt at age 110, he was embalmed; but, in keeping with his own previous request, he was kept from burial until Moses and the children of Israel took his bones to Canaan, to be buried near his father and other ancestors (Gen. 50: 22-26; Ex. 13: 19; Josh. 24: 32).

Latter-day revelation confirms many of the biblical details about Joseph and adds other important facts (see 2 Ne. 3: 4-22; 2 Ne. 4: 2; Alma 10: 3; Alma 46: 23-27; JST Gen. 50). It is through latter-day revelation that the larger mission of the family of Joseph in the last days is illustrated.

The tribes of Ephraim and Manasseh, Joseph’s children, were among the ten tribes of the Northern Kingdom of Israel, and thus among the “lost tribes.” Also, one portion of Joseph’s descendants came to America about 600 B.C. and established two great peoples.

The record of their doings is called the Book of Mormon. It has also been primarily Joseph’s descendants whom the Lord has called upon first in these last days to carry the gospel to the nations of the earth, in compliance with the covenant God made with Abraham.

Resty, the Book of Mormon is a fabrication. Smith claimed it was an historical record of Israelites come to the Americas. This assertion is proved to be a lie. The native Americans are not related to Israelites, they are descended from Asians.

The Book of Mormon claims regarding civilizations on this continent have been proven false. There is zero archaelogical evidence to support the fabrications in the Book of Mormon regarding Israelites come to the Americas and the DNA proof excludes ALL genetic lines of Native Americans from being descended from Israelites.

The Book of Mormon is fraudulent, a fabrication, and thus a deception concerning a visitation by Jesus to the Americas in approximately 33AD. Joseph Smith was a fraud and set out to deceive people in many ways. He has been shown to be a liar regarding his liasons with numerous females, some of whom were teenaged girls in polyandrous relationship with Smith (married to other men at the time Smith was bedding them).

The Book of Abraham is a total fabrication right from the mind of a liar who set out to deceive those around him, as proven with hieroglyphic studies showing Smith had zero comprehension of hieroglyphics and there is no such language called reformed Egyptian.

You are living under deception in following Mormonism as if it were from God. Read 2Peter 2:1 & 3 and Romans 10:2. You have a zeal for the Lord, but this false prophet, Joseph Smith, has fed to you and your fellow Mormonism adherents a feast of fabrications which do not testify of Jesus Christ. The story in the book of mormon is a lie, a fabrication. Jesus is not to be found clothed in lies. Smith used the desire of fellow Americans to follow the Lord in order to gather power and influence about himself. His lies and deceit are still gathering/misleading folks to the central demonic deceits. I implore you to leave these fabrications and be renewed in your mind through the truth in The Bible.