Now now dont be too hard on him...
There is this “prophecy” after all...
Joey kinda got this one right...
Or was he committing suicide ???
“For although a man may have many revelations, and have power to do many mighty works, yet if he boasts in his own strength, and sets at naught the counsels of God, and follows after the dictates of his own will and carnal desires, he must fall and incur the vengeance of a just God upon him..” (Joseph Smith, 1828, D&C 3.4)
And then in 1844, he did and God did...
“Come on! ye prosecutors! ye false swearers! All hell, boil over! Ye burning mountains, roll down your lava! for I will come out on top at last. I have more to boast of than ever any man had. I am the only man that has ever been able to keep a whole church together since the days of Adam. A large majority of the whole have stood by me. Neither Paul, John, Peter, nor Jesus ever did it. I boast that no man ever did such a work as I. The followers of Jesus ran away from Him; but the Latter-day Saints never ran away from me yet...When they can get rid of me, the devil will also go.” (Joseph Smith, Sunday, May 26, 1844, History of the Church, Vol. 6, p. 408, 409)
One month later God struck Joey Smith dead at the Carthage Jail for “boasting in his own strength” that he was greater than Jesus.
Good point.
I stand corrected.
;-)