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Sandbox Humanity (the way Elijah teaches it)

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When my son Aharon Mateho “ben ben” Yoseif was almost 3 years old – and already knew “sand-box” Hebrew, he and I decided it was time to begin his formal education in the world of the mystics.

 “Ben-ben” got just as excited about the meaning behind the Hebrew letters as he had “counting numbers” on Hebrew license plates from the time he rode in a pack on his Abba’s back all over Jerusalem and Israel.  By that, I don’t just mean reciting the numbers in Hebrew, but using a simple gematria I taught him to add them together until they make up one number! So close to my ears,  I finally had to ask him to count “silently” – unless he found a ”9.”   This is because he and I, were “secretly” on the lookout for the “666” who is an 18 who is a 9.  Maybe this is not a mental discipline for all pre-schoolers, but it helped my son, now 21, later master 10 orchestra instruments, Classical guitar, jazz piano and two years of microbiology and helped me fine-tune my spiritual senses to spot the real 666s, when they slither across my path).

 GOvernMEnt Loans spells G-O-M-E-L

 But some discriminations run deep and alas, no scholarship for my son. So like many of our post-Boomer generations today, he must be on the “government DoLe,” and dependant on “GOvernMEnt Loans” (at least until the  economy improves so these young men and women can FIND summer jobs).  Note that student loans are spelled “G-O-M-E-L,” represented by the “Gimel” and those dependent on them are spelled “D-L,” represented by the “Dalet.”  Gimel and Dalet are the third and fourth letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet and the prophet Elijah teaches that they have an inter-relationship.

 I have been engaged in five inipi over the past two weeks – sundancers are starting their annual four-day vision quests and have to be purified before we “inscribe” them in a seven foot diameter circle in remote mountain locations and “washed down” when they return to this world.  So I have been out of touch with the news … until today.

  ‘Triple A’ shuns Beth-El ‘Cookies’

  I see that  “Triple A,” my new pet name for “Arwillus Armittus Armillus” (who is channeling former Mass. Gov. Willard Mitt Romney) revealed more of his Satanic agenda to steal the Birthright of Joseph.    Open-mic moments have revealed that “Triple A” has shunned “Beth-El” (House of God) Cookies!  Beth-El is the border city between Ephraim and Benjamin.  All of the Birthright of Joseph (the head and crown in the partzuf at www.torah-voice.org) pivots on this Luz bone that together with Jerusalem, define the neck.  For those looking for such esoteric clues, it signals a clear attack against the Becorah (Birthright).  Also,  some rabbonim in Israel believe that the place Jacob had his experience with the ladder descending from Heaven indicates an End-Times roll for Beth-El THAT MAY DIRECTLY CONTRADICT THE MORMON BELIEF THAT A NEW JERUSALEM WILL DESCEND AT INDEPENDENCE, MO.  So I can understand the logic of ha-Satan’s attack on “our” Cookies, which are symbolic of the Birthright.

 And now it appears that AAA wants to take aim at my son’s student loan AND MY FOOD STAMPS!  (I live and minister in the poorest county in Colorado by intention and live and minister among the poorest by intention to help  them remember the Torah understanding of their Covenant, to suffer with them for the reconciliation  and to learn from my brothers and sisters and fellow elders!)   With help coming from nowhere, we share among ourselves.

 Together we can eat tuna fish salad.

 I was shocked this morning to hear a recording of the Right Wing Propagandist who poses as a news columnist, Shawn Hannerty who condescendingly and with no SHAME at all, relegated the poor to a pot of “beans and rice.”  To compound his sin, he promotes the idea that the resources stolen from the poor should go into the pockets of the already rich in the form of lower taxes.  I grew up in a small North Louisiana town on beans and rice and polk salad and turnip greens and corn bread (and before I knew any better) pond catfish.  In a family of seven, it was a treat once a week to have chicken or roast beef.   Some days the best meal we had was the school lunch program.   I believe I understand poverty, going to bed hungry and how it affects one’s mental processes.

 After our most recent night inipi (purification lodge), the elders and grandmothers and sundancers returning from the Other World, congregated to eat tuna fish salad.  Some brought apples, some pickle relish, others cans of tuna, others onion, others mayo, others bread and others drinks. (I brought some cream horseradish and matzot left over from Passover).  Some could only bring bottles filled with water.  BUT EVERYONE BROUGHT SOMETHING.  But by having this community meal we violated the “law.”

 The Bread of Shame

 While we were munching on our tuna salad and sandwiches sometime around 11 p.m., we came to the realization that in our choice to suffer for the reconciliation between the families of Joseph, we were 66 percent unemployed and 90 percent underemployed and 100 percent dependant on Food Stamps for the meal we were eating!  “law” (lowercase is mine) forbids poor people to share their food with anyone if it is purchased with food stamps.

 This “law” violates THE LAW (Torah), which demands that when one is given a gift, (such as food stamps) that one is obligated to SHARE part or all of that gift with someone else who was not a party to it, else they accumulate the BREAD OF SHAME.  This LAW inbred in Native communities is also inbred in the soul of a Hebrew mystic and relates to the story told by the prophet Elijah of the meaning and order of the first five letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet, the inter-relationship between the Gomel (the Benefactor) and the Dahl (the Poor Man).  It also applies to the “fabric of Creation” and betrays how out of touch “law” is with “LAW.”

 The ‘work ethic’ that divides Ephraim and M’nashe

 Land ownership is a relatively new concept to Natives and most indigenous peoples (meaning non-settlers).  In our hearts we cannot “own” our Mother, from whom our elements come.  So we still think of our role as stewards to PROTECT her.    Neither does the “White Anglo-Saxon Protestant work ethic,” some would force on us, have much value and may not be altogether a healthy ethic.  The incidence of high blood pressure, heart disease, strokes and “high-end” drug addiction have all been linked to out-of-balance ambition and overachievement, working too long and even, Grandfather forbid, working on Shabbat.  This equates to pride and ego for which Ephraim is biblically infamous but which is a black road.  Without the spiritual balance offered by M’nashe, Eprhaim would be Hell-bent on using its technological genius to find some way to profit from all of the resources of our Earth Mother. Without that balance, there would be no concept of thinking through these Get Rich Quick technologies without thinking through the effects on Seven Generations.  These are black roads.

 The Bible is clear that the poor always will be here.  The question to ask is “Why?”

Remembering the G’yana Shagowa – the cost of doing business on Turtle Island

“Triple A”  would say the poor are good for nothing but to work to make the elite more elite, snubbing even our cookies!   This attitude will eventually prompt class wars that hopefully can remain ideological in bringing about reforms toward balance.  Both the sages of Torah and the long Whitehairs say the same thing, “Balance,” in all things.  That would include the disparity of wealth in this nation.  The elite should be reminded that in any other nation they may not “own” that wealth and should make the same “thanksgiving offering” percentage-wise as the “less elite.”

And all Americans should be reminded of something else.  Before the settlers arrived to these shores, the G’yana Shagowa (“Great Law”) existed.  That law, which was the model for the U.S. Constitution and its Two-House system, had as its preamble, “NO POOR, no orphans, no jails.”  That means provision was made for the poor, to take-in orphans and to employ criminals productively to bring about their reform before the Iroquois 6 Nation Confederacy looked to any kind of economic prosperity.  Indeed, the treatment of the poor and orphans and less fortunate was a barometer of its blessings!  You might say it should be the “cost of doing business” on Turtle Island and therefore ALL should know that America (Turtle Island) is not TOTALLY the land of the FREE.  Living on this land, entails caring for and ministering to “the least of these my brothers.”

A snake chasing its tail

 With the goal of helping to reform the “elite,”(because when the time comes, I probably will not be alive), I offer you Eliyahu’s explanation of “Why?” there are poor as told in the story of the first five letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet.

 “A snake chasing its tail,” the eldest grandmother remarked about the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant work ethic, provoking laughs and yawns as we departed for our lower-class houses, RVs, trailers and Tee-pees.  And so I began my ascent into my dreams after inipi with thoughts of an emerging class warfare, the less than $50 a week I receive in food stamps that keeps me alive and that image … of a snake chasing its tail.  This grandmother did not know that this was the very analogy that was taught to me by the Holy Spirit, when I first learned the Hebrew aleph-bet.

 A “snake chasing its tail,” represents or is idiomatic of a “story.”  One thing that attracted me to the Hopi culture was the common theme of a snake chasing its tail on their pottery and even their ceremonial father drums.  I would later see it again on the Father Drum of Jimmy Tenrivers.  It makes you ask the question awaited by any “maggid” (story-teller at least in Native culture), “Why?”

 The song that does not end

 The “story” of the Hebrew aleph-bet is analogized to a snake chasing its tail, all the way from Aleph, the first letter, to Tav, the last, and circling again to Aleph, or thus, a snake chasing its tail.   Another snake chasing its tail is “The Song That Does Not End,” which “Ben-ben” learned from a Kid’s Channel puppet:  “This is the song that does not end.  Yes it goes on and on my friend.  Some people started singing it not knowing what it was.  And they’ll continue singing it forever just because.  This is the song that does not end …”  You get the idea.

 The teaching of Elijah

 The story begins, (Paraphrasing Eliyahu), “The Aleph is the Aluf who is the MASTER of Creation.  His Bet is his HOUSE OF ISRAEL who must be the Gimel (Gomel or BENEFACTOR) to the D(ah)l (or POOR) represented by the Dalet WHO LOOK TO HASHEM (Heh).”

 This lesson is deep. Beyond teaching my son the order and meaning of the first five letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet, it teaches Israel the very attribute Grandfather manifests toward Israel as told in (the mystical version at least) of the Passover Seder.  Any time Israel is oppressed, they cry in repentance to the Master of Creation (look to Grandfather) and He will be their Gomel.

 In a spiritual sense, it teaches spiritually rich Israel to share with the spiritually poor goyim (Gentiles) these deep understandings such as the fabric of creation being “sharing.”

 Why Creator Created

 Sandbox Humanity is therefore also School of the Mystics 101 and Philosophy of Creation 101 all combined.  At the end of this brief lesson, one should also be able to answer the question, “Why does Grandfather allow the rich to keep getting richer?”

 Grandfather (my personal choice to refer to Creator), all-knowing and Omnipotent had no need for His Creation.  His existence would have gone on quite fine without It.  So philosophically speaking WHY would he Create Creation?  Elijah says, “To share.”

 Sharing – The fabric of Creation

 “This means SHARING is the fabric of Creation.”  As a young boy I was shown that the stars in the sky shine whether my eyes see them or not and the same was true of the flowers that bloom in the field.  So I concluded that these things were not there solely for my pleasure.  The same is true of the winged and four-legged in the forest and the waters running in the streams, the grass and the ferns and the trees and from the springs all SHARE and not always for the eyes and ears or enjoyment of humans, but always to THEIR Creator.  Voice and rational language are unique to humanity and its concept of intelligence.  But Creator eternally enjoys an orchestra that causes the “trees in the field to clap their hands.”

 Only one part of Creation – the race of Adam – would not have this fabric innate or within.  Mankind would need prompting, urging, teaching, exampling, to become a SHARING creature.  Yet all of Creation emanates of this simple message of “sharing.”

 Wealth, status, position, ego die in inipi

 Even the Song of Moses which he sings to all of Israel before passing over the reign of leadership to Y’hoshuah, validates … and warns that the Heavens and the Earth (all of Creation) will bear witness against humanity if they fail to learn and SHARE.

 This is the harmony with “our Earth Mother” that appears to soak like osmosis into the skin of those who visit her spiritual womb (the inipi).  All the riches, the wealth, status, position, and EGO die in inipi. We (all winged, four-legged, even, grass, trees, rocks and insects with all colors of humanity) are all related.  Humankind is “Earth” brought to life, just like the rest of Creation.  We all come from our Earth mother.   We may not eat the insects, but the insects eat us or we eat animals who do eat insects.

A rip in the fabric of Creation

The first five letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet relate Grandfather’s example that the Gomel should share with the D(ah)l,” else humankind “rip” the fabric of Creation.

 And so the Good Master is a Gomel (Benefactor) to the Dahl (Poor) who look to Grandfather.  The Masorites placed “taggin” or tiny crowns on the top of seven letters of the Hebrew aleph-bet.  These include the Gimel, which has three such taggin and the Dalet, which has one.  The Gimel faces the Dalet and the Dalet is not looking toward the Gimel, but rather toward the Heh, which represents Hashem (Grandfather).  Therefore the obligation of the Benefactor toward the Poor who look to Grandfather.

 Spoiled and selfish progeny result from failure to Remedy the Bread of Shame

 Failure to remedy this shame is a sure formula for spoiled and selfish children who will eventually turn against the parents who doted on them and gave them everything they wanted without inbreeding in them the need to share.  Grandfather consequently has in place a system of tithes and offerings to help with this problem and at the same time assure that the needs of the poor – and the Levites who may not hold secular jobs – are met.

 There is also a more global application of this Remedy.  Israel – and only Israel – was given two gifts, which obligate them to be shared with the nations:  Torah and the Land of Israel.  Both are called “Moreshah” or “an heirloom.”  One does not part with heirlooms but there is still an obligation to share.  So how does Israel remedy the Bread of Shame associated with the Torah and Eretz Yisrael?

 Exile helps remedy Bread of Shame of Israel

 As prophesied by Noah, part of Israel would be exiled and dwell with Yaphet (through the family of Gomer), “in the tents of Shem.”  The exile of the Northern House of Israel, once renewed to their covenant, represent a part of Israel that has assimilated into the Nations, sharing their Torah.  A remnant of that body will make a physical return to Eretz Yisrael, including “all families of the Earth” in the remedy of the Bread of Shame.  It is like a loaf of bread with 13 slices and the slices marked Ephraim, M’nashe and Benjamin are shared with the Gentiles.  Judah, on the other hand, to remain true to its covenant, is forbidden to assimilate among the Nations.

 The wealthy as Jesus declared have a slim chance of making it into the World to Come. It is easier to pass a rope (Ara. Gamal) through the eye of a needle.  Here is a curious parallel between the Hebrew Gomel and the Aramaic Gamal, both referring to the wealthy or potential benefactors.

 Wealth of the rich belongs to the poor!

 The sages of Torah also did not cut the wealthy any slack when it comes to sharing.  They write that the wealth of the rich “actually belongs to the poor” obligating the wealthy to share.  The rich are only stewards of this wealth. IT DOES NOT BELONG TO THEM.

 If the wealthy elite would meet this obligation, there would be no poor, no need for student loans or any social programs.  But Triple A and his ilk trample upon this divine law and oppress the poor and needy.   The so-called “Christian” community is caught up with tithing to churches and various ministries – an aberration of Torah which commands that one’s tithe go first to the Levites – set aside for a spiritual work – and the poor.  Offerings, collected after this tithe is paid may be allowed for churches and non-Levitical spiritual works and ministries … BUT NEVER TITHES.

 Government programs necessary when spiritual laws are not obeyed

 Because these spiritual laws are not obeyed, the only hope for the less fortunate – and those set aside for spiritual work, such as these sundancers — is government programs.  “To steal from those who benefit from these programs and require them for the resources to live, to kill these programs and to destroy the hope of the poor is Satan’s agenda and reflects the snobbish, elite, uncaring, hard-heart  of Triple A.   And – I am sad to say – the Religious Right who is in bed with Triple A …  because of Obama hatred.

 So why does Grandfather allow the rich to keep getting richer?  In the World to Come, He will owe them NOTHING.

 Maggid ben Yoseif

666 Connection to Mitt Romney: The Satanic origin and purpose of the Book of Mormon and LDS Doctrine and Covenants

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Note:  The concern below has been sent to major LDS media and officials with the Mormon church and has invited their reply.  The campaign of Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, also has been invited to reply
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NOTE:  Please take this revelation to your pastor or spiritual leader for validation and confirmation … and more wide dissemination.
© 2012,  Maggid ben Yoseif Jerusalem Torah Voice in Exile

Sun dancers here in Colorado and much of the Native American community are constantly targets of Mormon missionaries.
In 2008, we got fed up.  Jimmy Tenrivers and I organized a delegation to go to Salt Lake City and complain.  We scheduled a meeting with the Council of 12 and then president (the “Prophet”) Gordon Hinckley.  As we were waiting in the lobby of the building with the obscene golden spires to meet with the Council of 12 and the “Prophet,” we later learned that Hinckley had suffered a stroke and died.  Instead we met with LDS historian, Marlin Jensen one of the members of the Council of 50.
I had been challenged some years earlier first by a member of the LDS and later, because of my understanding of Hebrew and the history of ancient Israel and migrations of the exiles, by Cherokee, Apache and Hopi elders to read the Book of Mormon and learn as much as I could about the doctrine and covenants it inspired.  This is because in 2001 I was commissioned by the Rebbe Shani Dor of the Revived Sanhedrin, with the approval of four other Sanhedrin rabbis to leave Jerusalem to “locate the House of Joseph” among my Native American relatives and elsewhere and mobilize a remnant of them to return to their ancestral Birthright as the biblical alternative to a Palestinian state in the Birthright region. 
This occasioned the critical review of the Book of Mormon and Joseph Smith (which you can see in five short articles at www.torah-voice.org/BoMDCT.htm).  To these elders’ knowledge, a knowledgeable critique of this book had never been written examining it from a Native American perspective.
One question for the LDS historian
The LDS Church and its spiritual weirdness (I’m sorry I don’t know what else to call some of your beliefs) had deeply taken root in some Native tribes, including the Cherokee band of my gggg and ggg grandfathers before the Removal and for whom I am past ambassador at large.  As a spiritual elder at one of the sun dancers’ inipi (purification lodge), I volunteered to go with Tenrivers and help represent the Apache and Cherokee.  We had one question for the LDS historian:
“If the Lamanites about which the book speaks and who you believe are the ancestors of Native Americans were never removed from Covenant, as evidenced by their progenitor, the alleged prophet Lehi, (LAY-HEE) then is not Jesus irrelevant to us?”
The question was asked to expose the core of Mormon theology as warmed over Christianity, cognizant of neither our obligations to our everlasting covenant in the Torah nor our preserved status as part of Israel.
My personal research, as one of the 13 Native American professionals tapped for the Equahiyi-Wasi society, (the Abraham-Moses project formally researching since 2000, the Native links to ancient Israel, Abraham and Moses) has shown that a family of Joseph never removed from Covenant (Israelite East M’nashe) did pick up its Mongolian DNA during a centuries-long trek.  Once freed from Assyrian conscription they can be traced journeying through Pakistan, the Wakhan Corridor of Afghanistan, Tibet, Mongolia, northern China and Manchuria enroute to the Siberian Straits where the Inuit (Eskimo) assisted their passage into Alaska and Canada.  Depending on when the tribe passed through Mongolia, the Israelite East M’nashe DNA could be much more widespread.

Navajo weave rugs like Hebrew priests

The research through various legends, linguistic clues and unique ceremonies and an emerging obscure Hebrew priesthood traces six nations of these 38 Athap(b)ascan Language Group nations (minimally) further south to the Four Corners:  The five nations of Apachu and the Navajo.  The Navajo today are the only people in the world who employ the unique geometric waft and weft twisted weave of the ancient Hebrew priests.  The weave on the Choshun (Breastplate holding precious stones representing the 12 tribes) described in ancient Hebrew writings is identical to the Navajo weave …  on their rugs, according to Rabbi Chaim Richman of the Revived Sanhedrin.  (See “Israelite East M’nashe Traced To Four Corners” in March 2011 Ancient American magazine, which is now available without cost at www.torah-voice.org/AAcovermarch2011.htm ).

Because there is truth to our Israelite heritage, which the Book of Mormon perverts, and because the Bible makes clear that Israelite East M’nashe was exiled 17-23 years ahead of the exile of the remainder of the Northern Tribes who lived west of the Jordan River, we needed to impress the LDS historian that to this day, we remain covenanted with Grandfather.   We were not asked this at the meeting, but I was prepared to submit and prove that the Native American population comprises the “n’zirei Yisrael” (preserved of Israel) of Isaiah 49. Both Jacob and Moses refer to a family of Joseph “exiled from his brothers,” with the term “n’zir,” usually translated “exiles” or “separated ones.”  Since “M’nashe” resided on the eastern side of the Jordan, opposite the sibboleth-speaking “Mannasah,” on the western side, this verse usually refers to Israelite East M’nashe.
But amid the exile of Israelite East M’nashe, the most separated are the Athap(b)ascan nations residing in the Four Corners:  The Apache and Navajo.
Ceremonies, medicines remain ‘holy’
Our ceremonies, the sundance, which shows evidence of orchestration by a Hebrew priest, the Dance of Welcome (later changed to the Ghost Dance), given to us in 1890 by Big Brother Jesus (similar to a Hebrew hora but we dance it in a spiral), our stomps and other ceremonies are of the Sacred Spirit as are our medicines, sage, sweetgrass, cedar and tobacco.  Since these remain “holy”, they should not be used in common ways In short, we did not require being “missionized.”  The LDS historian made no argument and helped secure $3,000 for the Apache sun dance that year.

The link to Israelite East M’nashe since established beyond doubt, indicates the Native American population may be the ONLY family of Joseph never removed from Covenant.   This means things we understand from Big Brother Jesus who appeared to our elders in 1890, would correct the LDS doctrine — and Christian and other Messianic doctrines — but they are too prideful and arrogant to accept correction from “sons of the forest.”

Joseph Smith was/is a 666

With this preamble, so my motives are clear, I want to take off of my shoulders and place on the shoulders of the spiritual leaders of your nation, tribe, synagogue, church or ministry some very alarming information I discovered during my research and spiritual quest to understand and debunk the Book of Mormon and its doctrine and covenants.

I should need to go no further than to state that the Hebrew gematria of Joseph (156) Smith (510) = 666

Smith said he received his revelation from “an angel of light”, which Smith, then a teenager, called “Moroni.”  I believe the reNewed Testament states that Satan comes in this manner, as an “angel of light.”
The five part series at www.torah-voice.org/BoMDCT.htm  contains other insights that should be alarming.A foreign policy out of Hell

But the most alarming concern to me is the belief by LDS that this land, (the US, which Natives know as “Turtle Island”) is the inheritance of the House of Joseph and a new Jerusalem will be built in Independence, Mo.  This means a Mormon president whose spiritual beliefs have been influenced by a 666 who may have himself been a channel for Satan, may place a lower importance on the Birthright of Joseph in the land of Israel than has already been placed on it by previous administrations, assuming this is possible!!
This should be a very great concern because of the ongoing curses involved with tampering with a Birthright, the curse lingering from the Bush presidencies for the desecration of the grave of Geronimo, (an Israelite prophet), and Grandfather’s purpose for returning the House of Joseph to their ancestral inheritance to reunite with the House of Judah.  And despite contacts from at least two dozen Cherokee and others from other Native American tribes, the former FOX commentator Glenn Beck, who is also LDS, in his several weeks of discussing the pre-1967 lines made no mention that these lines usurp the Birthright of Joseph.  HAD HE DONE SO, I WOULD NOT BE WRITING THIS NOW.
A full explanation of this is available at the website mentioned above.
Satan could be using anti-Obama sentiment

It concerns me that especially the Evangelical Christian Right seems so intent to defeat President Obama in a re-election bid that it might be blinded to “sell its soul” by supporting a Mormon — any Mormon who does not understand, respect and honor the biblical Birthright of Joseph — in the White House.

Anyone who would vote strictly out of a spirit of “beating Obama,” which is the mantra the GOP has adopted — WHO NEGLECTS THEIR RESPONSIBILITY TO PRAY FOR OUR PRESIDENT AND HIS LEADERSHIP — is guilty of the same spirit of rebellion that motivated young Smith!  Also, the resentment of the GOP against the president really needs to be reflected to the GOP in spiritual terms.  Look in the mirror.  The LORD God chooses a nation’s leaders not based on what the people of the nation “want”  or think they want, but rather, according to the spiritual principle of m’dah k’neged m’dah (what you sow is what you reap).  To correct Mick Jagger, “You can’t always get what you want, but with the LORD, you ALWAYS get what HE THINKS you need.”

A divination rooted in rebellion to oppose Return of Joes

When Smith’s divination was published in 1830, its flowery KJV language and inclusion of prophesies of Isaiah may have seemed innocent enough but deceived many, even the “very elect” of Ephraim, as the reNewed Testament predicted.   But my investigation also found that four years prior he was arrested and convicted for fraud for using the same divining stone by which he later “translated” alleged golden plates, never seen by witnesses except in “visions” … “for fear of death”, to “divine” the location of buried treasure.   Of course the major question today and which I ask in my review is “Where are the plates today?  Show me the plates!” which by all clues if they ever existed may have been writings of the six nations of the Haudenausaunee (Iroquois) customarily written on gold, silver and brass plates and hidden from the Turtle men (Spaniards) who would melt these plates for their precious metals.

Since Smith never made any overture with the plates toward his neighbors, the Haudenausaunee, the initial assumption of Native elders is that a rebellious teenager — rebelling at religion in general — stole the plates and used them for his own purposes and a religion of his own making … out of “the spirit of rebellion,” which the Bible calls “the sin of witchcraft.”   I would add that those purposes are materializing today as the religion for Satan (divination) that in the Last Days would garner opposition to the Return of the House of Joseph as the biblical alternative and solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.  Until now, things have gone according to plan.

Bogus books, fraud destroy credibility ignite false doctrine

Further, within his “Pearl of Great Price” are the Book of Moses, which adds to the words of Moses, a strict prohibition in the Torah; and his Book of Abraham.  Smith claimed to “translate” the latter from an Egyptian papyri that had been part of a traveling mummy show.  It depicted a man with a raised dagger and another man lying on a slab of stone below him.   Smith translated it as the story of Abraham offering up Isaac as told in Egypt with much spiritual weirdness.   But later when the Rosetta stone was discovered and it became possible to decipher Egyptian glyphs, the papyri turned out to be a page from a funerary text in the Egyptian Book of the Dead called, “The Book of Breathings.”  This and Smith’s earlier arrests for fraud destroy any credibility Smith may have purported to have.

Those two books, the Book of Moses and the Book of Abraham, are the source of all manner of strange doctrine, which regrettably has never been re-examined much less withdrawn from LDS beliefs by the LDS leadership.

Question by ‘angel of light’ distracts from Torah answer
Finally, gullible readers (I don’t mean to be demeaning except to emphasize that without a foundation in Torah before reading the Book of Mormon it would be easy to be drawn to this divination) are drawn into and actually mesmerized by the book revealed by the “Angel of Light” (Moroni).  Toward the end, this Moroni challenges the reader to pray about whether the book is true or not and receive a witness to this effect “in their hearts.”  This betrays the logic of the Torah which sets a standard for whether a prophet is true or not by whether his words line up with and do not contradict the Torah. Anyone unfamiliar with this very strict admonition is vulnerable to the heart tingles so easily counterfeited by dark forces.
Silence of LDS leadership allows Esau to usurp Birthright
Smith’s divination of the BoM and his doctrine and covenants fail even the Torah expected of New Testament believers.   His doctrine and covenants further usurp the legitimate Hebrew priesthood of Native Americans (Zadokites) who in the Four Corners region have the extra Y chromosome in their DNA (the Kohein haplotype) from 20 to 24 times more often than any population sample in the world, including totally Jewish population samples.  Most tragically for the LDS, they claim to be Firstborn Ephraim without embracing the Birthright of the Firstborn and instead — through the silence of the LDS leaders about the Birthright — allow it to be usurped by the people Obadiah called “The House of Esau.”

You will want to read the brief reviews.

Maggid ben Yoseif

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