Trusting God vs Priestcraft
Proverbs 29:11; “A fool uttereth all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards.”
Oops. This was a prophecy of Joseph Smith’s from March 1839 while he sat in a jail in Liberty, Missouri. Five years later in June 1844 he was shot and killed while sitting in another jail in Nauvoo, Illinois.
If this priesthood power was supposed to protect Smith it sure didn’t do a very good job of it seeing as how he was shot and killed at the age of 38.
Joseph Smith liked to rely upon many little charms and trinkets as protection for physical safety or to invoke powers from beneath. The Jupiter Talisman that was found in his pocket when he died is a classic example of that. The other false power he liked to use in prophecies was the “power of the priesthood”. These things are nothing more than different forms of witchcraft.
Sadly, the Mormon people rely on this so-called God ordained power, but there is no such thing as priesthood power for the Christian.