7/14/2017 - Section 50:1-20
July 14, 2017 Section 50:1-20 False Spirits, Satan’s Tactics, Hypocrites Exist, Power of Faithfulness and Endurance, The historical background on this is quite interesting. P 107: “ During all dispensations when the gospel has been on earth, Satan has devised ways to counterfeit revelation. The Prophet Joseph Smith observed: ‘Soon after the Gospel was established in Kirtland and during the absence of the authorities of the Church, many false spirits were introduced, many strange visions were seen, and wild, enthusiastic notions were entertained: men ran out of doors under the influence of this spirit, and some of them got upon the stumps of trees and shouted, and all kinds of extravagances were entered into by them; one man pursued a ball that he said he saw flying in the air, until he came to a precipice, when he jumped into the top of a tree, which saved his life and many ridiculous things were entered into, calculated to bring disgrace upon the Church of God, to cause the S...