Ephesians 5:6; “Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.
By the end of 1846, the Mormon Church was touting close to 34,000 members, making for an impressive display of growth for a new religion. Equally telling are records for the same time period revealing the 5,200+ endowments performed in their one and only, operating temple. All of those endowments were for the living, with no recorded endowments for the dead.
Almost 140 years later, their membership and endowment work had grown exponentially. By the end of 1985, membership sat just shy of six million, but there was a huge shift in how they utilized those temples.
