“But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.” 1 Timothy 4:7
The LDS Church claims that in 1847 Brigham Young declared, ‘This is the place’, meaning the Church had found its new forever home in the western end of the Rockies known as the ‘Wasatch Front’.
From the onset of their arrival, the truth about their polygamous ways were preached from the pulpit. Along with the false prophecy of the ‘New and Everlasting Covenant’, came other false prophecies.
Today we’re looking at the anniversary of Brigham’s infamous explanation, and his addition to Joe Smith’s false prophecy of planets, stars, and the moon’s inhabitants.
We pray that Christians will use the info provided as a means for truth, not condemnation, or as a way to belittle members of the Church.
For more info about Smith’s and Young’s false prophecies, see links for our articles at end.
TodayinMormonHistory.com “150 years ago today – Jul 24, 1870 — [Brigham Young] It has been observed here this morning that we are called fanatics. Bless me! That is nothing. Who has not been called a fanatic who has discovered anything new in philosophy or science? We have all read of Galileo the astronomer who, contrary to the system of astronomy that had been received for ages before his day, taught that the sun, and not the earth, was the centre of our planetary system? For this the learned astronomer was called “fanatic,” and subjected to persecution and imprisonment of the most rigorous character. So it has been with others who have discovered and explained new truths in science and philosophy which have been in opposition to long-established theories; and the opposition they have encountered has endured until the truth of their discoveries has been demonstrated by time. The term “fanatic” is not applied to professors of religion only…I will tell you who the real fanatics are: they are they who adopt false principles and ideas as facts…
…Who can tell us of the inhabitants of this little planet that shines of an evening, called the moon? When we view its face we may see what is termed “‘the man in the moon,’” and what some philosophers declare are the shadows of mountains. But these sayings are very vague, and amount to nothing; and when you inquire about the inhabitants of that sphere you find that the most learned are as ignorant in regard to them as the most ignorant of their fellows. So it is with regard to the inhabitants of the sun. Do you think it is inhabited? I rather think it is. Do you think there is any life there? No question of it; it was not made in vain. It was made to give light to those who dwell upon it, and to other planets; and so will this earth when it is celestialized. Every planet in its first rude, organic state receives not the glory of God upon it, but is opaque; but when celestialized, every planet that God brings into existence is a body of light, but not till then. …
Journal of Discourses. Liverpool, England, 1853-86. 13:267-274, quoted in The Complete Discourses of Brigham Young, Ed. Richard S. Van Wagoner, Smith-Pettit Foundation, Salt Lake City (2009), http://bit.ly/BY-discourses”
False Prophecies of Joseph Smith, Quakers on the Moon
False Prophecy of Joseph Smith and Family
With Love in Christ;
Michelle
This is the kind of teaching/prophecy which makes me shake my head at people who are supposed to be intelligent and yet accept the LDS as from God.
I’ve often wondered what members of my family thought at the time when they heard this. Thankfully, Jesus reminds me yet again of Ephesians 6:12.