So what's with this weird obsession that
Mormons have with Joseph Smith? Is he a
Saint? Like they worship him? Yeah, is he the guy who
married Pocahontas? Yes. Haha no, he's not.
Right after Joseph Smith saw God the Father and
Jesus Christ which is recorded in a
video we made previously that you can
find this playlist right here, he was
given the plates, the golden plates by
Moroni. Who's Moroni? Meet him. You may see
this all over the place in the church
this guy with a horn on top of temples
this is Moroni. Moroni was actually a
prophet in the Book of Mormon.
Interesting fact. Yes. He then visited Joseph
to tell about his huge ordination become
a prophet. And he led him to the plates on
the Hill Cumorah and they're covered up
with a huge big rock and he pushed him
off and then inside was -- I'm imagining Joseph just like
PHUM! So basically the plates were a history
of Moroni's people and Moroni came to
him as a resurrected being to show him
where this treasure was. Moroni's
people were actually the ancestors
of the Native Americans. So then Joseph
Smith took those plates, those golden
plates and he translated them into
English as we know and that's how we got
the Book of Mormon so Joseph Smith didn't
just translate it like he was like okay
what does this mean? Okay, I'm
gonna write this in English yeah yeah it
was by the gift and power of God yes
Joseph Smith was not a learned man you
didn't go to university and study
languages. Third-grade education. He was a
prophet of God endowed with great power
to bring about an amazing record. So
after the Book of Mormon was translated
lots of people didn't think it was real
because they were like oh he made it up
he's a liar. So he got
persecuted like crazy, he got ran out of
town he was tarred and feathered
multiple times he was shot at, his
family was persecuted like sleeping on
the floor of his friends houses and all
of this terrible things. Many of the
people that followed him were killed as
well like it wasn't just him being
attacked it was a massive community that
I was following the Lord Jesus Christ
they were being killed. Yeah. People don't know
that about. In fact in missouri, Governor
Lilburn Boggs issued executive order
number 44 which was the order saying
that you could legally kill a Mormon or
drive them from the state so the
property was being taken, they're just
being murdered,
there are even children and families
gathered in a barn and a bunch of men
came up and shot and killed everyone in
it. It's known as the Haun's Mill
Massacre. Now you can disagree with the
religion but if you you know murdering
people just because they're in that
religion is wrong. Let's put ourselves in
his shoes right now. If you were Joseph
Smith and people were killing everyone
who was following you, killing you
know trying to kill you and your family,
wouldn't you feel a little bit tempted
to say, "Okay none of it was true, sorry, I
take that all back" Yeah. Only tempted to
say that if it wasn't true yeah but
in my opinion if it worked obviously had
to be true if he was stick to his guns
so much about it and to never ever deny
what I saw or deny what he heard or deny
what he knew. I guess what I'm trying to
get into is just that just shows the
character of Joseph Smith, you know. Yes.
Cuz sometimes I feel like I want to deny
things that I know to be true just
because of constant persecution, think of
Joseph Smith this man had to be
extremely diligent you know extremely
hopeful in the Lord's commands like this
man was a man of boldness and firmness
and he knew what he had to do and set
that. Praise to the man because of
that you know. I think that because
the reason that he was so diligent and
persevered through all of the
persecution is because God called him as
a prophet he didn't just say like I
translated the Book of Mormon so I'm
gonna be the next prophet of this church
he was like called of God which means
that God gave him that mantle God gave
him the power God strengthened him through
the whole thing yeah so sad ending is
Joseph Smith was put into jail and was
killed by a mob they stormed the jail
and shot him killed his brother and
killed him and he was murdered he was
martyred he died for his religion just
like many the prophets of old and the
Messiah Jesus Christ. So that just shows
that he really believed in what was
going on he sealed his um testimony with
his blood he proved that he knew that it
was right. The beauty of knowing about
Joseph Smith is that we know that God
has prophets on earth today that he spoke
to people in the ancient days and he
speaks in the modern days that's why
it's so significant it's not just
because he started our religion it's
because it's a testimony that God lives
and Christ speaks to us. We
testify because of the Savior but
because of Joseph Smith we are here
today. You know them by their fruits so
if you really want to know if Joseph
Smith was a prophet asked Jesus Christ
or ask God,
the one who called him and then also
look at the fruits look what's around
you know. Joseph Smith was awesome.
Now I know there's going to be some
people who have some questions about
Joseph Smith so feel free to comment
below, you know, give us your thoughts and
we're going to make a response video to
a lot of the questions you guys are
asking because it's important to clarify
something about the prophet and could
just get some information out there also
in your comments be civil the ethic hold
on to the next slanderous things.
Ask like awesome questions out of
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