Does D&C 113:5-6 refer to Joseph Smith or Some other servant
Posted: December 31st, 2010, 8:02 am
"Behold, thus saith the Lord, it is a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the Kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."Doc-Cov 113: 5-6.
This is Joseph Smith.
"...........it is a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."
Are we amiss in saying that the prophet here mentioned is Joseph Smith, to whom the priesthood came, who received the keys of the kingdom, and who raised the ensign for the gathering of the Lord's people in our dispensation? And is he not also the "servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph, on whom there is laid much power"? (D&C 113:4-6.) Those whose ears are attuned to the whisperings of the Infinite will know the meaning of these things."
(Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982], 339.)
Joseph Fielding Smith said:
“The Lord has given us the four standard works, the bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine &Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, which is at the foundation of our faith. Each member of the Church should be so well versed, that he, or she, would be able to discern whether or not any doctrine taught conforms to the revealed word of the Lord. Moreover, the members of the Church are entitled, if they are fully keeping the commandments and covenants the Lord has given us, to have the spirit of discernment. The lay members of the Church are under obligation to accept the teachings of the authorities, unless they can discover in them some conflict, with the revelations and commandments the Lord has given. There are times when the leading brethren have expressed their own opinion on various subjects. This they have a perfect right to do.
The Lord has restored His gospel and His His priesthood, and it is the duty of every member of the Church to know the truth, for each is entitled to the guidance of the holy Ghost if they are faithful...There are many things the Lord would reveal to His people, if they are prepared to receive them. The saints are not in all cases faithful and true, therefore these blessings are withheld and we wait for them".
(Joseph Feilding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions. Course of Study for Melchizedek Priesthood Quorums, pages 190/1)
"...........it is a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."
Are we amiss in saying that the prophet here mentioned is Joseph Smith, to whom the priesthood came, who received the keys of the kingdom, and who raised the ensign for the gathering of the Lord's people in our dispensation? And is he not also the "servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph, on whom there is laid much power"? (D&C 113:4-6.) Those whose ears are attuned to the whisperings of the Infinite will know the meaning of these things."
(Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982], 339.)
In addressing the above statement we have to ask if Joseph Smith fits this profile? It is my opinion Joseph dose not fit this profile because Joseph Smith was not a descendant of Jesse. He could not have been because He would not have received the Book of Mormon.
Bruce R. McConkie states in the above paragraph: “ Are we amiss in saying that the prophet here mentioned is Joseph Smith”[?] “to whom the priesthood came”. Joseph did receive the priesthood.
Yes “who received the keys of the kingdom” But this was the ecclesiastical kingdom, not the national or political kingdom. (Although Joseph did try to set up the political Kingdom).
Yes “who raise the ensign for the gathering of the Lord's people in this dispensation”
Yes he is a “servant in the hands of Christ [and] in whom is laid much power”. But He is not the “servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim. No this is not so, why? Because in order for Joseph Smith and consequently his father Joseph Smith (senior) to inherit the birthright in Israel, and in order for the Book of Mormon to be in the hand of Ephraim, Joseph Smiths lineage had to be “Pure” and “Direct” from Joseph son of Jacob, as revealed in Doc & Cov 86: 8-11
8Therefore, thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers—
9For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God—
10Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began.
11Therefore, blessed are ye if ye continue in my goodness, a blight unto the Gentiles, and through this priesthood, a saviour unto my people Israel. The Lord hath said it. Amen.
and testified of by Joseph who was carried into Egypt 2 Nephi 3:6. 7, 15
6For Joseph truly testified, saying: A seer shall the Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit of my loins.
7Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the Lord unto me: A choice seer will I braise up out of the fruit of thy loins; and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins. And unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren, which shall be of great worth unto them, even to the bringing of them to the knowledge of the covenants which I have made with thy fathers.
15And his name shall be called after me; and it shall be after the name of his father. And he shall be like unto me; for the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation.
“Lineage is a matter of blood ascendancy. It was therefore on the strength of these wonderful revelation that in this dispensation it was made known to Joseph Smith that the right to hold the keys of this patriarchal office belonged to his father, Joseph smith, Sr. This authority was conferred upon Joseph Smith, father of the prophet, by right of his being “the oldest man of the blood of Joseph, or of the seed of Abraham”.
Doctrine of Salvation vol 3 p162
This patriarchal office is still with us to this day being invested in the descendants of Hyrum Smith, Joseph Smith srn's eldest son.
President Brigham Young also said:
“You have heard Joseph say the people did not know him; he had his eyes on blood relationship. His decent from Joseph that was sold into Egypt was direct – and the blood was pure in him. This is why the Lord choose him; and we are pure when this blood strain from Ephraim comes down pure and he had the sole right and lawful power, as he was the legal heir to the blood that has been on earth and has come down through a pure lineage”.
(Doctrine of Salvation vol 3 p248)
“Pure” means free from any adulterant; unmixed “Direct” means in an unbroken line of decent lineal, no admixture of any other tribal bloodline or Gentile blood, pure Ephraimitic.
“This ought to bury forever the false notion that Joseph Smith descended from a mixed blood lineage, some scholars teach this opinion as though it were truth. How could the Book of Mormon (Stick of Joseph) be in the hand of Ephraim if Joseph Smith was of mixed lineage?"
Some may say that it says in the introduction to the book of Mormon that it would come forth in due time by way of a Gentile?! No – not “a” Gentile but, “the” Gentile, - by way of the Gentile.
Joseph Smith was of British (English) decent and at the time in which the book of Mormon came forth the English were considered to be a Gentile nation, and so the book of Mormon did come by way of “the” Gentile,, but was to be in the “hand” (singular) of Ephraim.
(William Walker In the Isles of the Sea.)
Therefore to say that Joseph Smith fits the description of Doc & Cov 113: 5-6 is a misnomer
he does not fulfil this prophecy. No because he is not as the Lord declares a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the Kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."....to be continued
This is Joseph Smith.
"...........it is a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."
Are we amiss in saying that the prophet here mentioned is Joseph Smith, to whom the priesthood came, who received the keys of the kingdom, and who raised the ensign for the gathering of the Lord's people in our dispensation? And is he not also the "servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph, on whom there is laid much power"? (D&C 113:4-6.) Those whose ears are attuned to the whisperings of the Infinite will know the meaning of these things."
(Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982], 339.)
Joseph Fielding Smith said:
“The Lord has given us the four standard works, the bible, Book of Mormon, Doctrine &Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, which is at the foundation of our faith. Each member of the Church should be so well versed, that he, or she, would be able to discern whether or not any doctrine taught conforms to the revealed word of the Lord. Moreover, the members of the Church are entitled, if they are fully keeping the commandments and covenants the Lord has given us, to have the spirit of discernment. The lay members of the Church are under obligation to accept the teachings of the authorities, unless they can discover in them some conflict, with the revelations and commandments the Lord has given. There are times when the leading brethren have expressed their own opinion on various subjects. This they have a perfect right to do.
The Lord has restored His gospel and His His priesthood, and it is the duty of every member of the Church to know the truth, for each is entitled to the guidance of the holy Ghost if they are faithful...There are many things the Lord would reveal to His people, if they are prepared to receive them. The saints are not in all cases faithful and true, therefore these blessings are withheld and we wait for them".
(Joseph Feilding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions. Course of Study for Melchizedek Priesthood Quorums, pages 190/1)
"...........it is a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."
Are we amiss in saying that the prophet here mentioned is Joseph Smith, to whom the priesthood came, who received the keys of the kingdom, and who raised the ensign for the gathering of the Lord's people in our dispensation? And is he not also the "servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim, or of the house of Joseph, on whom there is laid much power"? (D&C 113:4-6.) Those whose ears are attuned to the whisperings of the Infinite will know the meaning of these things."
(Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah: The Second Coming of the Son of Man [Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1982], 339.)
In addressing the above statement we have to ask if Joseph Smith fits this profile? It is my opinion Joseph dose not fit this profile because Joseph Smith was not a descendant of Jesse. He could not have been because He would not have received the Book of Mormon.
Bruce R. McConkie states in the above paragraph: “ Are we amiss in saying that the prophet here mentioned is Joseph Smith”[?] “to whom the priesthood came”. Joseph did receive the priesthood.
Yes “who received the keys of the kingdom” But this was the ecclesiastical kingdom, not the national or political kingdom. (Although Joseph did try to set up the political Kingdom).
Yes “who raise the ensign for the gathering of the Lord's people in this dispensation”
Yes he is a “servant in the hands of Christ [and] in whom is laid much power”. But He is not the “servant in the hands of Christ, who is partly a descendant of Jesse as well as of Ephraim. No this is not so, why? Because in order for Joseph Smith and consequently his father Joseph Smith (senior) to inherit the birthright in Israel, and in order for the Book of Mormon to be in the hand of Ephraim, Joseph Smiths lineage had to be “Pure” and “Direct” from Joseph son of Jacob, as revealed in Doc & Cov 86: 8-11
8Therefore, thus saith the Lord unto you, with whom the priesthood hath continued through the lineage of your fathers—
9For ye are lawful heirs, according to the flesh, and have been hid from the world with Christ in God—
10Therefore your life and the priesthood have remained, and must needs remain through you and your lineage until the restoration of all things spoken by the mouths of all the holy prophets since the world began.
11Therefore, blessed are ye if ye continue in my goodness, a blight unto the Gentiles, and through this priesthood, a saviour unto my people Israel. The Lord hath said it. Amen.
and testified of by Joseph who was carried into Egypt 2 Nephi 3:6. 7, 15
6For Joseph truly testified, saying: A seer shall the Lord my God raise up, who shall be a choice seer unto the fruit of my loins.
7Yea, Joseph truly said: Thus saith the Lord unto me: A choice seer will I braise up out of the fruit of thy loins; and he shall be esteemed highly among the fruit of thy loins. And unto him will I give commandment that he shall do a work for the fruit of thy loins, his brethren, which shall be of great worth unto them, even to the bringing of them to the knowledge of the covenants which I have made with thy fathers.
15And his name shall be called after me; and it shall be after the name of his father. And he shall be like unto me; for the thing, which the Lord shall bring forth by his hand, by the power of the Lord shall bring my people unto salvation.
“Lineage is a matter of blood ascendancy. It was therefore on the strength of these wonderful revelation that in this dispensation it was made known to Joseph Smith that the right to hold the keys of this patriarchal office belonged to his father, Joseph smith, Sr. This authority was conferred upon Joseph Smith, father of the prophet, by right of his being “the oldest man of the blood of Joseph, or of the seed of Abraham”.
Doctrine of Salvation vol 3 p162
This patriarchal office is still with us to this day being invested in the descendants of Hyrum Smith, Joseph Smith srn's eldest son.
President Brigham Young also said:
“You have heard Joseph say the people did not know him; he had his eyes on blood relationship. His decent from Joseph that was sold into Egypt was direct – and the blood was pure in him. This is why the Lord choose him; and we are pure when this blood strain from Ephraim comes down pure and he had the sole right and lawful power, as he was the legal heir to the blood that has been on earth and has come down through a pure lineage”.
(Doctrine of Salvation vol 3 p248)
“Pure” means free from any adulterant; unmixed “Direct” means in an unbroken line of decent lineal, no admixture of any other tribal bloodline or Gentile blood, pure Ephraimitic.
“This ought to bury forever the false notion that Joseph Smith descended from a mixed blood lineage, some scholars teach this opinion as though it were truth. How could the Book of Mormon (Stick of Joseph) be in the hand of Ephraim if Joseph Smith was of mixed lineage?"
Some may say that it says in the introduction to the book of Mormon that it would come forth in due time by way of a Gentile?! No – not “a” Gentile but, “the” Gentile, - by way of the Gentile.
Joseph Smith was of British (English) decent and at the time in which the book of Mormon came forth the English were considered to be a Gentile nation, and so the book of Mormon did come by way of “the” Gentile,, but was to be in the “hand” (singular) of Ephraim.
(William Walker In the Isles of the Sea.)
Therefore to say that Joseph Smith fits the description of Doc & Cov 113: 5-6 is a misnomer
he does not fulfil this prophecy. No because he is not as the Lord declares a descendant of Jesse, as well as of Joseph, unto whom rightly belongs the priesthood, and the keys of the Kingdom, for an ensign, and for the gathering of my people in the last days."....to be continued