That's what happens when you can have women at a whim...Smith even nabbed 11-12 wives of already-married women! He began collecting them like a hobby in serious earnest in those last few years of his life...1842...1843...the remaining months of his life in 1844...Why only a "god" could have this kind of power...hence it wasn't til he almost died that he took off preaching his multiple god theory @ the King Follett funeral...
And ya gotta realize that the verses highlighting Mormons becoming gods -- D&C 132:20-21... was written in a broader context for two OTHER purposes...both dealing with "polypartnering":
(a) Convince Joseph's first wife Emma that it 'twas God's idea -- not Joseph's -- that Joseph pick up this multiple-wife "sideline activity"...D&C 132:34-35 is just a sort of preamble to what the real targeted purpose ... Joseph wrote D&C 132 initially just for his first wife!!!
We see this quite plainly in D&C 132:52-53: And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, receive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God. 53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things;
Ah...see where the "polygamy" justification fits in nicely with the Mormon doctrine of "Then they shall be gods?" See, Joseph says, "He'...ll be made ruler over many things" -- and obviously big-shot divine rulers need a lot of wives!!!
Oh, and purpose (b) tied to polypartnering? Why, that's covered in the next D&C verse -- D&C 132:54: And I command mine handmaid, Emma Smith, to abide and cleave unto my servant Joseph, and to none else. But if she will not abide this commandment she shall be destroyed, saith the Lord; for I am the Lord thy God, and will destroy her if she abide not in my law.
Do all you Lds & non-Lds lurkers get this picture now? Can you imagine what strife was going on in the Smith household at the time? Emma finally had some "bounceback" during one of those Smith arguments. She came up with a "what's-good-for-the-gander-is-good-for-the-goose" argument! She threatened to find her an extra husband or two or three.
Why just imagine that. Emma Smith pondering bedding down with other hubbies. If for no other reason than spite.
Well, a "prophet" can't have his wife sleep around e'en though he's adding another bedroom every month for a new wife! (That's what averaged the last two years of his life).
So, there ya have it. The origins of Mormons-R-goods was rooted in (a) polygamy; and (b) anti-Emma polygamy; and Smith took a funeral sermon of all places, to further expound upon future godhood.
THE BOOK OF JACOB
THE BROTHER OF NEPHICHAPTER 224 Behold, David and Solomon truly had many wives and concubines, which thing was abominable before me, saith the Lord.
25 Wherefore, thus saith the Lord, I have led this people forth out of the land of Jerusalem, by the power of mine arm, that I might raise up unto me a righteous branch from the fruit of the loins of Joseph.
26 Wherefore, I the Lord God will not suffer that this people shall do like unto them of old.
27 Wherefore, my brethren, hear me, and hearken to the word of the Lord: For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none;
28 For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women. And whoredoms are an abomination before me; thus saith the Lord of Hosts.
29 Wherefore, this people shall keep my commandments, saith the Lord of Hosts, or cursed be the land for their sakes.
30 For if I will, saith the Lord of Hosts, raise up seed unto me, I will command my people; otherwise they shall hearken unto these things.
31 For behold, I, the Lord, have seen the sorrow, and heard the mourning of the daughters of my people in the land of Jerusalem, yea, and in all the lands of my people, because of the wickedness and abominations of their husbands.
32 And I will not suffer, saith the Lord of Hosts, that the cries of the fair daughters of this people, which I have led out of the land of Jerusalem, shall come up unto me against the men of my people, saith the Lord of Hosts.
Or even HERE:
1 Timothy 3:2-3
2. Now the overseer must be above reproach, the husband of but one wife, temperate, self-controlled, respectable, hospitable, able to teach,
3. not given to drunkenness, not violent but gentle, not quarrelsome, not a lover of money.1 Timothy 3:12
A deacon must be the husband of but one wife and must manage his children and his household well.Titus 1:6
An elder must be blameless, the husband of but one wife, a man whose children believe and are not open to the charge of being wild and disobedient.
THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTSSECTION 13251–57, Emma Smith is counseled (commanded) to be faithful and true; 58–66, Laws governing the plurality of wives are set forth.51 Verily, I say unto you: A commandment I give unto mine handmaid, Emma Smith, your wife, whom I have given unto you, that she stay herself and partake not of that which I commanded you to offer unto her; for I did it, saith the Lord, to aprove you all, as I did Abraham, and that I might require an offering at your hand, by covenant and sacrifice.52 And let mine handmaid, Emma Smith, areceive all those that have been given unto my servant Joseph, and who are virtuous and pure before me; and those who are not pure, and have said they were pure, shall be destroyed, saith the Lord God.53 For I am the Lord thy God, and ye shall obey my voice; and I give unto my servant Joseph that he shall be made ruler over many things; for he hath been afaithful over a few things, and from henceforth I will strengthen him.55 But if she will not abide this commandment, then shall my servant Joseph do all things for her, even as he hath said; and I will bless him and multiply him and give unto him an ahundredfold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children, and crowns of beternal lives in the eternal worlds.