00:01Shabbat Shalom, brothers and sisters. Welcome back. I thank you again for joining me today.
00:06Today I want to do a book review, and this is close to home, being a former member of
00:13the Latter-day Saints and everything. Of course, you know, you got the Book of Mormon right
00:17here. Well, anyways, there's a book right here. I highly recommend for Mormons not
00:29Mormons or historians or whoever, but this book is called Joseph Smith, Rough Stone Rolling,
00:38and it's by Richard Lyman Bushman. And the book right here, I don't have the cover, I mean
00:48like the dust cover, where it has, you know, the face or anything on it or whatever. This
00:55came from a library. I got it real cheap and everything, but this book, oh boy, this book,
01:01I love history, and I love, you know, studying religion, of course. Besides, you know, I got
01:10my own religious beliefs, of course, but this book is like, ooh, roughly 740 pages.
01:20And it's got some photos in it, of course. I'll show you a photo here of what they call
01:32the Prophet Joseph Smith. And there's other photos in here, of course, but it's rich. This
01:40this is rich in history. This, this, this stuff comes from archives, historical records, and
01:49everything from Utah, the Latter-day Saints. And he did a real good job. And let me explain
01:57something about this book here. Okay, Mr. Bushman, I seen him on a lecture on YouTube. He's on
02:05YouTube. He did a lecture about this book. And, uh, he said, uh, his point of view, he's a Latter
02:12-day
02:12Saint. He's a Latter-day Saint, but he didn't want to be biased towards his faith. But then again,
02:18he don't want to go against it. You know, what he's trying to do here is, uh, what do you
02:24call a
02:26psychoanalyzing him? You know, what was in his mind? Was he a real prophet? Was he bipolar? Was he OCD?
02:33I mean, was he, was he a fraud? But, uh, he does a good thing here. And like I said,
02:40and, uh,
02:41when I saw his, his lecture, he, he, he got, he, uh, got it off of, uh, a guy named,
02:48a man named Eric
02:50Erickson, who did, did the same thing with Martin Luther, the reformer. He wanted to get inside his
02:57mind and also add history. He don't want to be, you know, but like with, uh, Mr. Bushman, he'd,
03:03like I said, he don't want to be, he didn't want to be biased. He didn't want, you know,
03:07he just wanted to do an open, open thing. And it opened my mind because like I said,
03:14you know, me and a former member got out of the church and everything.
03:20It blew my mind, um, reading this stuff. I mean, and, uh, and this book come out, uh, published,
03:29I think it was 2012. Hold on for a minute. I think, I think, I think copyright is 2012.
03:352012. No, oh, 2005. I'm sorry. I, I, I'm reading another book right now and I think I got my,
03:44uh,
03:44wires crossed right there, but yes, 2005 and, and, uh, right here at the back here, uh, I think
03:54there, I thought there was, uh, a note to the author back there and note to the type. I thought
04:03they,
04:03uh, I thought they did, uh, maybe it's on the sleeves. Like I said, this came from a library.
04:12Uh, see, this came from a library. I got, I got offline and, uh, didn't come with, uh, you know,
04:21the sleeve with the cover. If it, if it was a face and on the back, it would have, uh,
04:26it'd have,
04:27you know, his credentials and, you know, it'd have like, uh, reviews from, you know, whatever,
04:33whatever newspaper. But anyways, this, this book, uh, you know, when I, like I said, when I was a
04:41Mormon, I didn't know, I didn't know a lot about this stuff. I heard a couple of things here and
04:47there. And after I got out, I heard a couple other things here and there, but I didn't want to
04:52revisit
04:53it. But of course, you know, uh, certain things come up sisters. Yeah. Former Mormon sisters and
05:01everything. Wanted to talk about it and said, Hey, you got to do a video about this. So I read
05:06the
05:07book, checked it out, did some research. I got another book, uh, uh, Fonnie Brody, Fonnie Brody.
05:17Uh, I'm going to check that book out. And, uh, there's another one I'm going to check out and I'm
05:22going to do the same thing here, but no, you'd be interested about this, this, this book. It's,
05:31uh, full of weird polygamy, uh, all kinds of weird stuff. I mean, you have to get in the mindset,
05:42uh, back in, what was it? The 18th century, you gotta get back there where, you know, we just
05:50became a nation and a craving of scriptures and whatever scriptures and truth, spiritual truth.
06:00Yeah. But you know, they say a lot of people like that churches ain't doing it. The Protestants
06:06ain't doing it. We got to branch out. And that's why now we got the Mormons. We got seventh day
06:11Adventists, Christian Science, uh, Jehovah Witnesses, uh, few others out there. They all
06:18just sprung up because of the religious freedom. But anyways, uh, I got the Doctrine and Covenants.
06:25Well, this is my, why I was doing missionaries, uh, what we call a triple here. Now here in section,
06:32section 32 of Doctrine and Covenants, let me read this revelation given through Joseph Smith,
06:38the prophet at Nauvoo, Illinois, recorded, uh, July 12th, 1843, relating to the new and everlasting,
06:47uh, covenant, including the eternity of the marriage covenant as also plurality of marriage,
06:57of wives. I mean, uh, H, H, C, 5, C, uh, 501 through 507. Although the revelation was recorded in
07:081843,
07:09it is evident from the history, historical records that the doctrines and principles involved in this
07:17revelation had been known by the prophet since 1831. Now, if we talk about that 1831,
07:27that's when Joseph's first, uh, plural wife, uh, housemaid, a 14 or 15, 16 year old girl,
07:35Fanny, Fanny Auger, was in there and he kept hitting on her all the time until she succumbed to it.
07:43He,
07:45you know, he said, you know, I'm a prophet of God and I'm going to give you my seed and
07:49stuff like that.
07:50And, but then later on he had this little, little, little ink is what I'd call it. It was all
07:58the
07:58women where he's, you know, start chasing them around and saying, you know, if, uh, if you don't
08:05marry me, the angel of the Lord's going to strike me down with a flaming sword. He's right there. You
08:20a lot of women went through it. And Emma, Emma, his first wife, she didn't like it a lot. She,
08:26uh,
08:27rumors is if you read this book, like I said, this book, rough, uh, rough stone rolling. If you read,
08:34if you read this book talks about things where she might've, uh, Emma might've, you know,
08:41knocked the crap out of a couple of the girls, you know, and Joseph's running away and doing this
08:48and that. But, uh, you know, that's, you know, that's the plural, plural thing, marriage, but
08:54that's, you know, not the main theme, but that just sticks out in my mind in the book. But there's
08:59other books, you know, about how he, he was nobody. And then he rose up and he started building cities
09:06and towns and whatever churches. He's building everything. And he's, everybody's working like
09:14in a, what I'd say, a socialistic, uh, communal thing where, you know, share the wealth, you know,
09:21uh, stuff like that, bring everybody in. And you know, what happened was like in Missouri,
09:26when it came to Missouri, Mormons started flooding the state, which politically speaking, what happened
09:34was the people there was like, uh, uh, no, no, we've got a political block here and we can't have
09:41that. Plus they, you know, they didn't know about, I don't think they knew about polygamy until later
09:47when Joseph went to Nauvoo in Illinois. And once he got everybody there, he could do, he started doing,
09:55you know, being an emperor, like, you know, kind of like I'm King and everything. And he started
10:00getting his power. Once he took everybody, he took everybody and put them right here,
10:07you know, secluded them from family, friends, anybody, everybody out West at the time,
10:13the wild West, he was able to really dig in. But, but anyways, anyways, like I said, this book right
10:22here by, uh, Richard, uh, Lehman Bush, check this book out. I got this, uh, actually, you know what,
10:33my daughter got me this book. I don't know where she got it, but I asked, I was like, yeah,
10:37she asked,
10:38what do you want, dad? It's like, if you want to give me something, give me this book. I was
10:43like,
10:43but give me a used book, cheap one. You know, I mean, she got this and I read it and
10:50I outlined
10:50stuff. I, uh, highlighted stuff. I did whatever. And boy, wish I could, wish I could read this thing
11:00to you, but, uh, there's another book. Like I said, uh, funny, funny Brody, or I'm going to check
11:08that out too and see what's going on there. But anyways, like I said, I was a former member of
11:14the
11:14church and, uh, I gave up on it. Uh, you know, I think the Holy spirit told me, Holy spirit
11:25said,
11:26this ain't the right thing. You know, I don't, I don't know, but anyways, uh, that's all I want to
11:32say about that book. Get it. If you're interested, if you're an ex Mormon, a Mormon. And, uh, I also,
11:40I'm trying to think of, uh, the two girls, there's two girls on, on, on YouTube, but that, uh,
11:46what were their names? Alyssa Grinfield and, uh, Lindsay Hanson Parker, Lindsay Hanson Parker,
11:57Lindsay with a Y after the L, uh, Alyssa, uh, if I can, I'll, I'll put it in the description
12:05box for
12:06you to check it out. But yeah, check this, check that book out and everything. And, uh, let me know
12:12what you think about it. Uh, it's just, you know, bringing things, you know, reading that book. I was
12:18like, Whoa, uh, I didn't know a lot about this stuff. And, uh, especially at the end, I don't want
12:26to, you know, no spoiler alerts, but, but at the end, he's really honest about the, the shootout, the,
12:34what you'd call the martyr of Joseph and Hiram Smith. It's very interesting because a lot of
12:41people said they were just completely innocent victims and they were defenseless is what I'd say.
12:49But well, just read that late and let me know if you've read this book, if you've read this book,
12:54let me know. And if you're interested and then you read it, let me know. But anyways, that's all I
13:00have
13:00to say right now. Thank you very much for joining me. And, uh, as always, peace out and shalom.
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