[greyfoxx39]

An interesting look at "Celestial Marriage" can be found in this article:

Joseph Smith Part Three-The Mysteries of Godliness-Celestial Marriage and Second Anointing

Note that this also describes the little-known-"second anointing".

Celestial marriage was applied to and equated with plural marriage until the late nineteenth century.68 Although in March 1836 and again in May 1842 Smith declared the endowment complete and the fullness of the priesthood restored, by late August 1842 he prayed that "the Lord Almighty...will continue to preserve me...until I have fully accomplished my mission in this life, and so firmly established the dispensation of the fullness of the priesthood in the last days, that all the powers of earth and hell can never prevail against it."

Fascinating article.

[Tennessee Nana]

by late August 1842 he prayed that “the Lord Almighty...will continue to preserve me...until I have fully accomplished my mission in this life, and so firmly established the dispensation of the fullness of the priesthood in the last days, that all the powers of earth and hell can never prevail against it.”
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So was Joey Sith claiming that although Hell could not prevail against the Church that Jesus had founded, it was “the powers of earth” that did ???

Blasphemy ...

[wendy1946]

Call me a simple redneck or whatever, but I’m willing to take Jesus’ word on something like this...