by Dan Wees | Dec 2, 2018 | Miscellaneous
The 10 January 1815 vision of Eleazer Sherman… “Here I sunk down in tears, and sorrow overwhelmed my sinking soul. While in this distress, I heard as it were a soft and pleasant voice saying to me, Behold the Lamb of God, that taketh away the sin of the world:...
by Dan Wees | Dec 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
As Joseph Smith, Jr. desperately thought of “filler material” for the Book of Mormon, his “go-to” chapters were peeled almost verbatim from the Old Testament books of Isaiah. This technique not only raised suspicious eyebrows upon publication (with a justifiable...
by Dan Wees | Dec 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
John Samuel Thompson, a teacher at the Palmyra Academy announced: “[Jesus appeared] in a glare of brightness, exceeding tenfold the brilliancy of the meridian [noonday] Sun. And that he came to me, saying: ‘I commission you to go and tell mankind that I am come; and...
by Dan Wees | Dec 1, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“It seemed as if my mind, though active in its very nature, had lost all its activity, and was struck motionless, as well as into nothing, before the awful and glorious majesty of the Great Jehovah… He also told me, that every denomination of professing christians had...
by Dan Wees | Nov 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“…I went into the woods one morning… a light appeared to shine from heaven… My mind seemed to rise in that light to the throne of God and the Lamb… The Lamb once slain appeared to my understanding, and while viewing him, I felt such love to him as I never felt...
by Dan Wees | Nov 30, 2018 | Miscellaneous
“While engaged in prayer a light appeared in the heavens, and descended until it rested upon the trees where he [Joseph Smith, Jr.] was. It appeared like fire. But to his great astonishment, did not burn the trees. An angel then appeared to him and conversed with him...
