Are We Led By A True Prophet?

By

Elder Erving Lambert
of
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

Tara, my daughter. You asked me whether I think Russell M. Nelson is a prophet? 

The answer to this is going to be long. So I will write it first on my computer before uploading it to your Facebook Messenger.

Firstly, I think Joseph Smith was the only prophet in this Dispensation you can trust! Let me explain.

Starting with Brigham Young, the 2nd prophet of the Church in this dispensation of the fullness of times, the Church started to corrupt itself because of LIES AND FALSE DOCTRINE being taught.

Before getting into this, let me say that I am NOT trying to destroy you testimony of The Church. I myself know beyond a shadow of a doubt that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints is the restored Church and Gospel as mentioned in Daniel 2:28 & 45: "in the Latter Days ... shall the God of Heaven set up a kingdom;" and in Daniel 7:27: "and the kingdom ... shall be given to the people of The SAINTS;" and in Isaiah 28:12: "and this is THE REFRESHING: yet they would not hear;" and especially as found in Acts 3:18-21: "Repent ye therefore and be converted when the times of REFRESHING SHALL COME FROM THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, and he shall send Jesus Christ, which was before preached unto you," [IN THE BIBLE AND IN THE BOOK OF MORMON] "whom the heaven must receive" [ Jesus lived on this earth, died on this earth, and was resurrected and received back into heaven ] "until the times of RESTITUTION OF ALL THINGS ..." I bear testimony to you, my daughter, Tara, that Joseph Smith was called LIKE A TRUE PROPHET HAS ALWAYS BEEN CALLED - BY GOD HIMSELF - and that The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints started out right (under Joseph Smith) with all of the correct doctrines that the Lord wanted The Church and The Gospel to have in it. The Church started out (under Joseph Smith) with 100% of everything there; and The Church should have retained this 100% with the same doctrines that Joseph Smith established when he, under God, RESTORED & RESTITUTED THEM! 

But, when Joseph Smith was murdered, hell broke loose. Emma Smith, Joseph Smith's first wife, disliked the doctrine of polygamy that her husband had brought into The Church. She also wanted their son to be the next prophet. But the apostles did not like the idea. So Emma Smith left the Church and became the foundation, manner of speaking, of a new church, which at the time I guess, was called The Reorganized Church ... Meanwhile, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints was without a prophet and president. Joseph Smith himself had been called by seeing The First Vision and called directly by the two God. But the Gods now were not willing to show themselves. Several of the apostles wanted to be the new prophet and argued among themselves who should be the prophet. Now I have not studied much into this so I may not be super accurate on exactly Brigham Young was chosen, but if I am correct, Brigham Young was the senior apostle, so it was decided that Brigham Young would be the prophet. 

Brigham Young was a forceful (for lack of a better word) man, who probably wanted to convince the Saints that he was just as much a prophet as Joseph Smith had been. BUT HE WASN'T! He immediately started changing things and brought in 2 LIES (FALSE DOCTRINES), besides maybe changing the Word of Wisdom. In the so-called Word Of Wisdom (Section 89 of the Doctrine & Covenants) written by Joseph Smith, Verse 9 states: "hot drinks are not for the body or belly." Yet before long this "hot drinks" was changed to be coffee and tea. Yet no one has been able to tell me how "hot drinks" became coffee and tea. I believe, without substantiation, that it was Brigham Young, trying to appear to be a "TRUE" Prophet. Somewhere in Church history the Church got away from "hot drinks" into condemning coffee and tea (both of which medical science has proved is GOOD FOR YOU. And if it is simply the caffeine, then why not condemn Coke and Pepsi as well? Etc.)  

But more importantly, Brigham Young brought in a LIE (aka FALSE DOCTRINE) called The Adam-God Theory. In this, Brigham Young claimed that ADAM IS GOD THE FATHER HIMSELF: that Adam was the spriritual and physical father of Jesus Christ, and that Adam is the spiritual father of you and I and everyone else. Anyone who has any spiritual or criptural sense can quickly discern that this is a LIE AND FALSE DOCTRINE. The 12 Apostles at the time were dumbfounded in what to do? [Similar to the Republicans not wanting to disagree with U.S.A. President Donald Trump!] Some of the apostles immediately knew The Adam-God Doctrine was FALSE DOCTRINE, but they covered it up [as Trump followers have covered up 26,000 lies from Donald Trump!] and let the Prophet Brigham Young retain his title of "prophet" and let him get away with it. Other apostles at the time queried in their own minds, "Well, he's the prophet. He must know what he's talking about." But Brigham Young didn't know what he was talking about!!! The very 2nd prophet of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints immediately started teaching LIES AND FALSE DOCTRINES. President/Prophet Spencer W. Kimball might have been the only fellow prophet/president to chasten Brigham Young on it - but even he, Spencer W. Kimball, covered it up by NOT MENTIONING the name of BRIGHAM YOUNG AS THE LIAR who wrote it, and even using words like "alleged" as if it did not really happen - even though you can find it several times in the Journal of Discourses [ such as in https://jod.mrm.org/1/46 ]:  

President Kimball in his October 1976 Conference Talk, 'Our Own Liahona', simply whitewashed and minimized Brigham Young's two false teachings, even questioning whether it even happened at all by using the word "alleged": "Another matter. We hope that you who teach in the various organizations, whether on the campuses or in our chapels,  will always teach the orthodox truth. We warn you against the dissemination of doctrines which are NOT ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, and which are alleged to have been taught by some of the General Authorities of past generations. Such, for instance, is the Adam-God theory. We denounce that theory and hope that everyone will be cautioned against this and other kinds of FALSE DOCTRINE."

As you can read, Prophet Spencer W. Kimball CONTRADICTED President Brigham Young!!! But he only did so because Prophet Brigham Young was wrong! He deserved to be contradicted! A TRUE Prophet will not contradict other TRUE Prophets! But when a Prophet does not conform to the teachings of the Scriptures and/or what other TRUE Prophets have said or written, they MUST speak out against those FALLEN Prophets! THAT is part of their duty: to speak out against LIES and FALSE DOCTRINES!!! Yet none of the other prophets have (as far as I know) only Spencer W. Kimball and then briefly and very white-washed and covered up.

But it goes further than just contradicting other prophets. Any prophet who contradicts the teachings of either a TRUE PROPHET, or the Scriptures, is indirectly teaching A LIE AND A FALSE DOCTRINE. For example, Joseph Smith taught that the Holy Ghost is given through the laying on of hands. Many false teachers from other churches do not teach the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost as found in (ACTS 8:9-23). What if some Prophet agreed with these false teachers and taught that you get the Holy Ghost when you are baptized or even taught that the Holy Ghost is not necessary, whatever (Acts 19:1-6). No apostle or prophet is allowed to go against the revealed Plan of Salvation. Yet that is what Brigham Young, Gordon B. Hinckley, and Russell M. Nelson have done.

Getting back to the SIN (because FALSE DOCTRINE is a LIE and LYING IS A SIN) of Brigham Young teaching that Adam is our Father, not only did Spencer W. Kimball contradict that doctrine, but it is illogical. We are taught that God has worlds without number. Do you think God as Adam could go to a billion worlds to start each world with an Adam-Character? In Moses 1:34 it states: "And the first man of all men have I called Adam, WHICH IS MANY." Each world has an Adam, and that Adam is not the same Adam that we had on our world!!! NOR is it God The Father acting as Adam!!!

But as far as Brigham Young's LIE & FALSE DOCTRINE called the Adam-God Theory (Doctrine) is wrong and evil, it was NOT Brigham Young's worst act or doctrine taught. He also taught a very perverse and evil doctrine called BLOOD ATONEMENT. In Blood Atonement, (from what I understand about this FALSE DOCTRINE) Brigham Young taught that the Atonement of Jesus Christ does NOT atone for all possible sins. There are certain sins such as raping and murdering a baby in which the Atonement of Jesus Christ  does not cover or hide that sin. IF you stay with just the atonement of Jesus Christ, you will be judged and condemned. But, from my understanding again of Brigham Young's Blood Atonement, and again I could be wrong in my understanding of his doctrine, Brigham Young taught that when you have done something like rape and murder a baby, or something awful like that, you are not forgiven or atoned for by the blood of Jesus Christ, and therefore you have to do something that Jesus could not do for you. You must take matters into your own hands and do your own BLOOD ATONEMENT!!! For example, you rape and kill a baby and you feel so bad about your act, maybe you pray with a knife in your hand something like, "Heavenly Father, Please accept my own blood atonement for the blood of this baby I killed." And then you slit your own throat, bleed out, and die. It's a PERSONAL Blood Atonement, which although impressive that you had so much remorse about your act, the plain fact is: It does not RESTORE the life of the baby, or undo your act. Nor does Personal Blood Atonement satisfy God's Plan of Salvation for man:
"There is NO OTHER WAY NOR MEANS, whereby men can be saved, ONLY THROUGH THE BLOOD OF JESUS CHRIST." [ Helaman 5:9]
Personal Blood Atonement is FALSE DOCTRINE at its worst, and it was taught and preached by a so-called PROPHET of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. But it gets even worse than that!

Back in the early 1970s several people were murdered in their home. After a search the police found out that one Charles Manson had ordered those killings. Charles Manson himself had killed no one. He simply put the idea in the heads of his followers, and his followers committed the Sharon Tate Murders. Charles Manson, as well as his followers were convicted and spend many years in prison. [Donald Trump has allowed over 250,000 Americans to die from Covid 19. I believe Donald Trump is the worst murderer in American history! Yet no one will try Donald Trump on these murders, let alone even acuse him of being a murderer, as I do.] People in power get away with crap like that. And oftentimes aren't even accused. IF you look up the Wikipedia on Ervil LeBaron, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ervil_LeBaron, you might be able to see a connection between this murderer and the LDS Prophet Brigham Young.

Here is what it says there: 

"Ervil Morrell LeBaron (February 22, 1925 – August 15, 1981) was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group who ordered the killings of many of his opponents, using the religious doctrine of BLOOD ATONEMENT to justify the murders."

And who did Ervil Lebaron learn "BLOOD ATONMENT" from? Why or course, from  Brigham Young!!! The world wouldn't even have a Personal Blood Atonement if it had not been started and spread by that FALLEN PROPHET, Brigham Young.  Just like Charles Manson was tried and convicted for putting the thought of murder into his followers minds, Brigham Young should be post•hu•mous•ly convicted of murder! Of course the government does not try someone who is already dead. But The Church continues to laud Brigham Young as a PROPHET. Brigham Young's huge color painting-portrait hangs on the wall of the Salt Lake Temple. I have stared at it and shook my head. It's wrong! It doesn't make the Church false, but the leaders of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints are NOT what they are supposed to be!
The Church should be 100% TRUE AND UNCORRUPTED. But it is NOT 100% true. It has corruption in it. It has lies. It has FALSE DOCTRINE in it. The Lord states that He is no respecter of persons, but even that is a LIE! The Lord DOES respect His prophets. The Lord DOES let His Prophets get away with teaching an occasional LIE & FALSE DOCTRINE. Which goes against Doctrine & Covenants is:80-84: "There is not any person belonging to The Church who is exempt ... And inasmuch as a President of the High Priesthood shall transgress ... none shall be exempted from the justice and the laws of God." In this connection, another so-called prophet of The Church, Wilford Woodruff,  taught: "The Lord will never permit me, or any other man, who stands as President of this Church, TO LEAD YOU ASTRAY. It is not in the programme. IT IS NOT IN THE MIND OF GOD. If I were to attempt that, THE LORD WOULD REMOVE ME OUT OF MY PLACE" (AS PROPHET, inserted by me here) "AND SO HE WILL ANY OTHER MAN" (or Prophet/President, again inserted by me here) "who attempts to lead the children of men astray ..."

BUT THAT IS MIS-INFORMATION from the so-called Prophet Wilford Woodruff. He knew and worked with Brigham Young. He knew about Brigham Young's two FALSE DOCTRINES, The Adam God Doctrine, and Blood Atonement. He knew, surely he must have known these were FALSE DOCTRINES, that Brigham Young in teaching them led the Saints astray; yet The Lord did NOT "REMOVE ... Brigham Young ... out of his place." The Lord allowed Brigham Young to remain Prophet & President for 30 or 40 years! The Lord did not KILL off Brigham Young, nor excommunicate him, nor "REMOVE" him in any way - but allowed Brigham Young to remain in good standing in the Church. Millions of Church Members honor and respect this LIAR AND MURDERER named Brigham Young!!! Yet Wilford Woodruff had the gall and the arrogance to proclaim, "The Lord will never permit me, or any other man, who stands as President of this Church, TO LEAD YOU ASTRAY. It is not in the programme. IT IS NOT IN THE MIND OF GOD." I don't know how you see this, but I think these less-than-true Prophets DON'T REALLY KNOW THE MIND OF GOD! They want you and I to believe they do, but the evidence shows that they do NOT!

Gordon B Hinckley, another FALLEN PROPHET if he was ever a real prophet in the first place, taught that Polygamy is not scripturally validated. This claim would be bad enough in itself, since Joseph Smith, Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, and several other "Prophets" believe it IS SCRIPTURALLY VALIDATED and thus IS A TRUE DOCTRINE OF THE CHURCH, but it is just as troubling that Gordon B. Hinckley's statement is quite hypocritical!  If you watch the Larry King interview, just before teaching this FALSE DOCTRINE, Gordon B. Hinckley stated that The Church excommunicates members for teaching false doctrine! And right after he says this then he himself immediately teaches a FALSE DOCTRINE and gets away with doing it!
It shows there is definitely a respect of persons in The Church!!! Watch and listen to Gordon B. Hinckley teach his FALSE DOCTRINE AND BE THE HYPOCRITE THAT HE PROVED HERE THAT HE WAS by watching this important Larry King interview: ( see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAsNMWwRXvs ) 

A couple of weeks ago I wrote a rebuttal to a minor example of a FALSE DOCTRINE taught recently (December of 2020) from Russell M. Nelson. In this retort, it also briefly explains why Gordon B. Hinckley's words are FALSE. Re-read it:

"Since President Russell M. Nelson claims The Book of Mormon contains everything about the Gospel, then why does The Book of Mormon NOT teach about Eternal marriage, as found in Doctrine & Covenents 131:1-4 and Doctrine & Covenants Section 132 --- and why does The Book of Mormon only have 1 scripture on the validity of Polygamy??? - 2nd Nephi 14: 1 which requotes Isaiah 4:1: "And in that day, 7 WOMEN shall take hold of 1 MAN, saying, LET US BE CALLED BY THY NAME." Now later in The Book of Mormon, 3rd Nephi 23:1-3, the Lord makes it clear "that ye ought to search these things. Yea, a COMMANDMENT I give unto you that ye SEARCH THESE THINGS DILIGENTLY: FOR GREAT ARE THE WORDS OF ISAIAH." (And that includes Isaiah 4:1 and 2nd Nephi 14:1 re-iterating it!) concerning POLYGAMY!!! Brigham Young, the 2nd President of The Church, even said and wrote this powerful TRUTH which either Gordon B. Hinckley was ignorantly unaware of or simply refused to accept it (again demonstrating prophets rejecting other prophets words and wisdom): 
"If you wish to obtain the blessings which Abraham obtained, YOU WILL BE POLYGAMISTS at least in your faith, OR you will come short of enjoying the salvation and the glory which Abraham has obtained. This is as true - as that God lives! The man that resists Polygamy in his heart" (such as the FALLEN-Prophet Gordon B. Hinckley) "will come short of dwelling in the presence of The Father and The Son, in Celestial Glory. THE ONLY MEN WHO BECOME GODS, EVEN THE SONS OF GOD, ARE THOSE WHO ENTER INTO POLYGAMY." ( http://jod.mrm.org/11/266 ) In other words, YOU CANNOT INHERIT what-we-call, 'Eternal Life', unless you are a Polygamist!
Yet The Book of Mormon itself mis-leads people, including the FALLEN PROPHETGordon B. Hinckley, who during  an interview with Larry King, (see https:// www. youtube.com/watch?v=jAsNMWwRXvs - start at 10:02 to 10:27 ) stated that we excommunicate people for teaching false doctrine and then he, himself, Gordon B. Hinckley hypocritacally states that he "doesn't believe Polygamy is scripturally validated." Gordon B. Hinckley, as so-called Prophet of the Church, more of less called the Prophets Joseph Smith and Brigham Young, who between them had something like 100 plural polygamous wives, liars and adulterers!!! Because if Gordon B. Hinckley was correct that Polygamy was not valid, that would make it a false doctrine that both Joseph Smith and Brigham Young professed and lived. And if it was a false doctrine THAT falseness would make them liars. Furthermore, if Polygamy was a false doctrine it would also make Joseph Smith and Brigham Young ADULTERERS!!! And they should have both been excommunicated from the Church!!! But on the other hand if Gordon B. Hinckley was wrong about Polygamy being a false doctrine, then Gordon B. Hinckley should have been excommunicated for teaching false doctrine! Gordon B. Hinckley adhered to Jacob 2:23-27 which makes it seem that Polygamy is false: "For there shall not any man among you have save it be one wife;" BUT, this probably was Jacob speaking to HIS OWN PEOPLE: NOT SPEAKING FOR THE WHOLE WORLD OR FOR EVERY MOMENT IN TIME DURING THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD. Furthermore, the Lord never wrote: 'Great are the words of Jacob,' but He did write, "Great are the words of Isaiah ... And ALL THINGS" (including Polygamy) "that he" (Isaiah) "spake have been and SHALL BE , even according to the words which he spake." [again 3rd Nephi 23:1-3] [Not only did Isaiah's prophecy [Isaiah 4:1] come true in Joseph Smith's and Brigham Young's day, but the United States these days has now legalized Polygamy!!! So whether it is scripturally validated or not, members of The Church, because The Church does not go against the law of the land, can now marry multiple wives (and even multiple husbands I suppose if some women want to) and The Church can not excommunicate them for it because to do so would be to go against the law of the United States and a major lawsuit if the person wanted it, which the new law states: https://postamate.com/2020/05/united-states-finally-legalizes-polygamy/ ]
Additionally, don't you think Joseph Smith KNEW what was contained in Jacob 2:23-27??? Of course he did!!! YET, he went against that - probably because it only referred to Jacob's people: NOT to Joseph Smith's people!!! ... I could go on and on about these fallen prophets in the Latter-Day Church who don't know what they're talking about. 
No true prophet will contradict what other true prophets have written and said. Furthermore, no true prophet will hide or cover-up any of the true doctrines of Jesus Christ, as Gordon B. Hinckley did and as Russell M. Nelson does. It is true Russell M. Nelson is 'PRESIDENT' of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, but in my view he is a "FALLEN" Prophet who does not col•lab•o•rate ALL of the teachings of Joseph Smith nor ALL of the teachings of The Book of Mormon. He like, Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, and Gordon B. Hinckley, is a hypocrite who should be excommunicated, or at least, released from his Office of President. I have written a lengthy paper on these 4 hypocrites that can be found under my website: http://ScriptureCrossReferiences.com (but I still have a lot of revisions to do on this paper.) Nonetheless, the basic ideas of how these 4 Presidents of The Church, Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Gordon B. Hinckley, and Russell M. Nelson, have taught LIES (FALSE DOCTRINES) is there, and the only people who might refute these things are TRUMP FOLLOWERS who overlook lie after lie after lie ... SO if you are a Trump follower, don't read about the lies of the Prophets because you'll only claim it's, "Fake News" ... 
And remember that there are many in the Church who believe, because the prophets and apostles do NOT want you searching and questioning their lies and false doctrines (98% true and maybe 2% false) but want you believing whatever comes out of their mouths - even when they are lies and false!!! Yet logically even Jesus admitted (John 18:23): "If I" (Jesus) "have spoken evil - BEAR WITNESS OF THAT EVIL." If that be true for Jesus, why not true for the evil lies and false doctrines perpetuated by Brigham Young, Wilford Woodruff, Gordon B. Hinckley, and Russell M. Nelson???

(IF you had read the entire "Small book" that I sent you over a year ago to you, you might understand why I say this. This is found as the last entry on m y website, http://ScriptureCrossReferences.com )
 No TRUE prophet will contradict another TRUE PROPHET! 
As Paul said in 1st Corinthains 1:10 - "Now I beseech you, brethren, by the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ, that ye ALL SPEAK THE SAME THING, and that there be NO DIVISIONS among you; but that you be PERFECTLY JOINED TOGETHER IN THE SAME MIND and in the same judgment." Now, not only is that true for all members of the Church, whether the Church in the time of Jesus or with the Restored Church in our day, but it especially holds true for apostles and prophets! In the Bible it states one of the ways you can tell if a prophet is a true prophet of God: When a TRUE PROPHET prophesies - it comes true! Yet John Taylor, another President-Prophet of Our Church, prophesied some really far-fetched prophesies such as California and Texas would be underwater, and that a killing disease would cover the land and no one would be on the streets, and other things. (Covid-19 has that potential but so far, John Taylor's odd prophesies have not come true.) And Ezra Taft Benson, another Prophet, stated, "If you knew what I knew, you would get your food supply!" He made it sound like if you don't have your food supply in a year or so from when he spoke this, you might be starving! Yet his prophecy (if we can call it that) was something like 30 years ago, and yet we have not had need for an emergency food supply (as yet!)

Russell M. Nelson, if I am not mistaken, claimed that "Perfection does not come in this life; it comes in the next life." 

Yet in Doctrine & Covenants 107:43, it states: "SETH WAS A PERFECT MAN." To me, that means Seth perfected himself IN THIS LIFE! The same is written about Job and Noah, as being PERFECT. The Bible is full of scriptures exhorting us to "BE PERFECT." The Book of Mormon states: "I know that The Lord giveth us no commandments ... save He shall prepare a way for them that they may ACCOMPLISH THE THING WHICH HE COMMANDETH THEM." [1st Nephi 3:7] Now according to Russell M. Nelson that "way" is only in the next life, which I presume to mean the Millenium. Never in the scriptures does it say anywhere that you cannot perfect yourself IN THIS LIFE; never does it say that Perfection comes only in the next life. I believe Russell M. Nelson, just like Gordon B. Hinckley, Wilford Woodruff, and Brigham Young, inserts his own opinions.  He teaches his own opinion which is FALSE and CONTRARY to what other Prophets, TRUE PROPHETS, have taught and contrary to what the scriptures have taught on the subject. 
Alma, whom I consider a TRUE PROPHET, stated things like "For behold THIS LIFE is the time for men to prepare to meet God, ... THIS LIFE IS THE DAY FOR MEN TO PERFORM THEIR LABORS." [Alma 34:32] " DO NOT PROCRASTINATE THE DAY OF YOUR REPENTANCE." [Alma 13:27] "Therefore, I beseech of you that
you DO NOT PROCRASTINATE THE DAY OF YOUR REPENTANCE until the end; FOR AFTER THIS DAY OF LIFE, which is given us to prepare for eternity ..." [Alma 34:33]

A TRUE PROPHET DOES NOT TEACH PROCRASTINATION AS RUSSELL M. NELSON TEACHES!!!! A true prophet teaches you to hurry, because you mostly only have this life to do it. Don't wait; do it now!
Nor does a TRUE PROPHET teach something CONTRARY to what another TRUE PROPHET or the Scriptures teaches. Concerning Brother Nelson saying Perfection is Not In This Life, while Joseph Smith wrote that "SETH WAS A PERFECT MAN," who was right? If Russell M. Nelson is right, that means Joseph Smith either wrote something he didn't know what he was talking about, or he LIED about it. Or perhaps Joseph Smith had another definition of "PERFECT MAN." I personally choose to believe that Joseph Smith was a great and TRUE PROPHET who knew what he was talking about, while Russell M. Nelson is a lesser prophet if one at all, and does not know what he's talking about. 
Is he a TRUE Prophet of The Lord. In my opinion: NO. HE IS NOT!!! For example, if Polygamy is as important to The Plan of Salvation as Brigham Young wrote that it was, with Polygamy now legal in the United States, https://postamate.com/2020/05/united-states-finally-legalizes-polygamy/  then why doesn't Russell M. Nelson bring back polygynous marriages in The Church? It's either because he is a coward, or he does not believe in Polygamy!!! There is the thought that many people in the world are monogamists and monogamy-minded. This includes many Church members perhaps and many would-be Church investigators. IF Polygamy were reinstated in The Church, there would be a certain amount of monogmay-minded members of The Church, like Emma Smith and Oliver Cowdery, who would leave The Church because they think The Church is wrong and even corrupted. Same thing with investigators. There would be a certain amount of investigators who would use The Church's new Polygamy as a "road-block" to accepting The Church and being baptised. So perhaps these two reasons are why The Church does not embrace Polygamy again now that it is legal in the USA. But if so, that would come under the heading of The Church and The Prophet being COWARDLY. IF Polygamy is indeed so important to the fulness of the Gospel as Brigham Young stated: XXXXXXXXXXX
Two additional witnesses to this is how he was elected. Dallin H. Oaks or someone said, when President Nelson was being made the Prophet and President, that their way of choosing the prophet/president eliminates contentions, with several of the brethren all wanting to be the Prophet/President. But if you really give this some thought, someone OUTLIVING other people does not mean it is The Lord's will! One apostle might have lived a life of eating saturated fats and other bad things and die of a heart attack, or cancer. Did it mean it was The Lord's will? NO! He was just too stupid to have a good diet and exercise and whatever else it takes to live to be 120 years of age. Furthermore, if you compare that choosing of a prophet with how other prophets in history were chosen, it is not the same. The Lord states several times that, "For I am The Lord, I CHANGE NOT." [one scripture example is Malachi 3:6, but there are others.] Yet can you find me an example in the scriptures of a prophet being chosen simply because he outlives other holy men? I bet you cannot find one. Joseph Smith was chosen because God The Father and God The Firstborn Son, APPEARED TO HIM PERSONALLY AND CALLED HIM TO BE THEIR PROPHET. I seriously doubt Russell M. Nelson had The Lord appear to him personally and say, "Brother Nelson you are my new prophet." If it did happen, then why not tell us about it? Joseph Smith told us. You might say, "Well, Russell M. Nelson is too humble to boast ..." Give me a break! In the first place that would be insinuating that Joseph Smith wasn't humble in "boasting" about it, but realistic 

Two other examples of why we really do not have a TRUE PROPHET leading us. We always have a President, that is true. Russell M. Nelson is the President of The Church. We cannot deny that. And he is mostly a good man that teaches mostly truths. He makes a great president, but that does not mean he makes a great "Prophet."

When he came into his office, he was interviewed by the press, and they asked him a question which dumbfounded him! Here he was the so-called "Prophet" yet he did not know even how to answer their question. Dallin H. Oaks had to take over for the so-called "Prophet" and answer the question. To me that's NOT MUCH OF A PROPHET. You may disagree with me, but I believe a prophet should be the most inspired man on earth: able to walk and talk with God; able to receive instant inspiration and revelation through the Holy Ghost." About the TRUE PROPHET, Nephi, in [3rd Nephi 7: 18 and 17] it states: "Angels did minister unto him DAILY ... And Nephi did minister with power and with great authority." Yet President Nelson couldn't even answer a question!
When Spencer W. Kimball was fooled and deceived by Mark Hoffman, there were some people who said, "If he was really a prophet, why was he deceived by Mark Hoffman?"

Are prophet's inspired? Sometimes they are; sometimes they aren't. [Just like me!] Yet I would think a TRUE PROPHET would always be inspired and in-tune with The Lord [unlike me]. But as hard as it is for the average active Church member to accept, Mark Hoffman, PROVED, that apostles and prophets do not always have a clue as to what's going on! The plain fact is perhaps, at least with these not-so-great prophets, these "minor" prophets, like Gordon B. Hinckley and Russell M. Nelson, they are just men like ourselves, sometimes inspired and sometimes not. They don't have "Angels ministering to them DAILY" as they should ... and because of that they are sometimes deceived ... 
Mark Hoffman was a Church Member. When he was about 14, he decided The Church was not true, and that it's leaders were stuffy old men pretending to be things they were not. Mark Hoffman did not let anyone know that he no longer believed in The Church. He went on a mission for The Church and even married in the temple. All of it a fraud. But then, to add to his fraud, he learned he was a master at forgeries and proceeded to dupe the United States government as well as The Church. President and so-called "Prophet" Spencer W. Kimball was deceived by Mark Hoffman. So was N. Eldon Tanner and Marian G. Romney of the 1st Presidency. So was Boyd K. Packer and Gordon B. Hinckley. 

Mark Hoffman made them all look bad! None of them had a clue that Mark Hoffman was a fraud and master con-artist! That a million dollars worth of forgeries (some 400 purchased by The Church!!!) were all fakes. Yet Wilford Woodruff 80 years eariler had said, "It is not in the Programme. ... It is not in THE MIND OF THE LORD" to allow such things to happen.
Well: IT WAS IN THE PROGRAMME! IT HAPPENED! IT WAS IN THE MIND OF THE LORD TO LET IT HAPPEN. IT'S CHURCH HISTORY THAT THE CHURCH DOES NOT WANT YOU TO KNOW ABOUT! Just like The Church does not want you to know about the FALSE DOCTRINES of Brigham Young. The Church has had manuals  teaching  Brigham Young - but do they teach his LIES? NO! Manuals on Gordon B. Hinckley. But do they teach his lie? Again, NO! They cover such things up! Over 400 incidents. Over 400 LIES, FALSE DOCTRINES, sexual sins and murders, and I'm only writing about a few of those here. Which is why I state that  The Church is 98% TRUE, but 2% EVIL. 
Jesus said, "BEAR WITNESS OF THE EVIL!" Don't you have a right to know that The Church and It's Prophets --- ARE NOT PERFECT ... and sometimes preach EVIL. Don't you have a right to know that even Apostles and Prophets are sometimes DECEIVED, and occasionally PROPHETS AND APOSTLES DECEIVE US ...
I am not trying to destroy your testimony in bringing these things to your attention. Rather, I am attempting to help you see that you should not trust an apostle or a prophet, nor his words, simply because of his title and office of Prophet, Seer, and Revelator. "PROVE ALL THINGS," Paul, one of the smartest of the TRUE APOSTLES wrote. [1st Thessalonians 5:21]
I proclaim that you need to know the scriptures and the truths of The Gospel and The Church so well that you can easily discern truth from error - even when an apostle or a prophet tries to teach you something that is false.
And because these LIES & FALSE DOCTRINES keep on coming (it would be different if they had ended with Brigham Young) as shown through Gordon B. Hinckley and Russell M. Nelson, it is important to not just think that because he is an apostle or a prophet that he knows what he's talking about. For sometimes they really do not know. They try to teach you that the Scriptures are secondary to the living prophet and apostles. Believe that and you will continue to ocassionally be led astray. They try to teach you in the temple to "Not Speak Ill" of your leaders. Some man wrote that part of the Endowment because he knew there is a lot of things that could cause a person to speak evil about. The Church and the leaders who try to cover up and hide the bad things about it are subversive people who (for Americans) deny our right to freedom of speech and freedom of religion. If we indeed have freedom of speech we should be allowed to get up and say even, "I believe The Church is false." Hopefully no one will do that, but if they wanted to, it should be their choice to do so. Yet last year in Lehi I got up and quoted Spencer W. Kimball's remarks, ""Another matter. We hope that you who teach in the various organizations, whether on the campuses or in our chapels,  will always teach the orthodox truth. We warn you against the dissemination of doctrines which are NOT ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES, and which are alleged to have been taught by some of the General Authorities of past generations. Such, for instance, is the Adam-God theory. We denounce that theory and hope that everyone will be cautioned against this and other kinds of FALSE DOCTRINE." I proceeded to try to convince the congregation that THE SCRIPTURES are more important than a living prophet's words, etc., and the Bishop turned off the public microphone and said he would dismiss the Sacremental Congregation if I proceeded to keep talking. I told him I wasn't preaching false doctrine. He agreed. He said, however, he just wanted me to bear testimony. His idea of "testimony" and my idea of "testimony" are two different things. For him, "testimony" is saying nothing negative about The Church or its leaders. For me, I adhere to the words of Jesus [John 18:23]: "If I have spoken evil: BEAR WITNESS OF THE EVIL; but if good, then bear witness of the good." For me, bearing testimony is bearing witness of both!!! 
 
 I bear testimony that an apostle's words, or a prophet's words, are only valid if they are "ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURES" as President Kimball stated. None of our modern prophets and apostles have the right to go against a TRUE PROPHET of the past. Do not take the attitude that it is wrong to follow dead prophets; for it is those so-called dead prophets that give the living prophets validity and life. 
AS President Hinckley answered, when asked by an interviewer why he does not preach much new doctrine, his words echo the truths of Joseph Smith and the four Standard Works:
"Most of what needs to be said, has already been said." 
And this I leave with you, in the name of Jesus Christ. Amen
Erving Lambert
scripturecrossreferences@gmail.com
385-214-4393
12/25/2020