The last admonition of Joseph the Prophet to the Nauvoo Legion, before leaving for the Carthage Jail...: ...This I will promise you, that when I come again to lead you forth, for I will go to prepare a place for you, so that where I am you shall be with me."
IoW, either Joseph Smith comes again -- a "Second Coming" -- after he has gone to "prepare a place for you" -- or, he's a delusional false prophet who had this Messianic complex.
After all, if we already have Jesus Christ to accomplish both of these things, why do we need Joseph Smith again?
2 My Father’s house has many rooms; if that were not so, would I have told you that I am going there to prepare a place for you? 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. (Jesus, John 14:2-3)
From the article citing Heber C. Kimball, one of the top three Lds Church hierarchists in the mid-to-latter 19th century:
"Then the Prophet Joseph and others will make their appearance and those who have remained faithful will be selected to return to Jackson County, Missouri and take part in the upbuilding of that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem."
There ya have it. Yet another "prophecy" about the Second Coming of Joseph Smith...and that he will return to Jackson Co., Missouri. (Be sure to buy up all that real estate there, ya here? You, too, could be THE FIRST to see the Second Coming of Joseph Smith!)
Frog snot.
sounds messy.
The answer is NO.
ah yes Heber C. Kimball a Morm on leader who had 45 wives all at the same time and declared getting another wife was like buying another cow...that traditional Mormon marriage thingy...
oh and who sold his 14 year old daughter to Joey Smith as a sex slave in return for favors from Joey..
like salvation etc for Hiram and his favorite wife, Helen’s Mom...
Stand up Joe!
The only One coming back is Jesus Christ. Smith will be judged by Jesus. This is false doctrine at it’s worst.
“those who have remained faithful will be selected to return to Jackson County, Missouri and take part in the upbuilding of that beautiful city, the New Jerusalem”
If being a Mormon means spending eternity stuck outside Kansas City, count me out.
Jon Krakauer, in his book Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, said this was a verse of focus by the Mormon murderers (Lafferty brothers)
Joseph Smith was killed in Carthage, Illinois.
Not in Missouri.
See:
http://www.historicnauvoo.net/2010/01/carthage-jail-and-visitors-center/
There are other versions of what happened. The one on that page is the Mormon version.
For another view, read: “No man knows my history”.
ISBN 679-73054-0
All religions are cults. Christianity is not a religion. That’s the difference.
Uh...
I don't think so...
Where have I heard something like this before???
John 14:3 perhaps???
It's hard to find anything in the Doctrines and Covenants with which to agree but I'll make an exception here. I would equate Joseph Smith's "truth" and the product of his bowels.