In June 1844 Joseph Smith was safe across the Mississippi in Iowa, with horses ordered for the trip west. He went back, told his brother “we shall be butchered,” and rode to Carthage saying “I am going like a lamb to the slaughter.” A con man runs. Joseph walked toward death with Hyrum, a witness of the plates, and never recanted the Book of Mormon.
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In 2008 a Stanford paper said the Book of Mormon’s style pointed to Sidney Rigdon and Solomon Spalding. But its method could only pick from the names it was given, and Joseph Smith wasn’t one of them. When reviewers let the computer answer “someone else,” 93% of the chapters outside Isaiah went there. Part 3 of 10.
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Critics call the Kirtland Safety Society proof Joseph Smith was a con man. The records tell a different story: no bank got an Ohio charter that year, the Panic of 1837 broke banks nationwide, an enemy drained the reserves and sued, Joseph resigned and warned people off the notes, paid the judgment, and lost heavily. Here’s what really happened, mistakes included.
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In 1823 an angel told a 17-year-old farm boy that his name “should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues.” It was in print by 1842. Here’s the paper trail, the Church’s own numbers on the good half, the long record of the evil half, and why every critic who keeps talking about Joseph Smith is part of the fulfillment.
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Deuteronomy 18:22 asks one question: did it come to pass? This 2026 edition tests Joseph Smith’s prophecies by the Bible’s standard and by the date of the earliest record: the D&C 87 Civil War revelation printed in 1851, the Twelve at Far West, Stephen A. Douglas, the Rocky Mountains, and the Book of Mormon going to the nations.
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