The Church History Library of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints just dropped a revelatory bomb on the Mormon history community and we’re gunna talk about it. John Taylor (prophet 1880-1887) wrote a revelation saying that the new and everlasting covenant is actually “everlasting” and cannot be revoked or abrogated. However, the prophet after Taylor, Wilford Woodruff, wrote the First Manifesto bringing the church into compliance with the law of the land. However, plural marriages continued to be performed. The Reed Smoot hearings turned the eyes of the nation to the kingdom of god in Deseret and every clandestine plural marriage put a lie to the Manifesto. Church leaders are excommunicated and it leads to the formation of the Fundamentalist Latter-day Saints. The church has suppressed this revelation in its vaults for nearly a century while openly denying that it even existed. After that we chat about more secrets hiding in plain sight with the movie National Treasure. We wrap with happy news about diabetes therapy and a gaggle of listener mail.

 

Show Notes: 

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/assets/3aec2ea6-fdeb-4866-9529-47e27f9cd3b9/0/0?lang=eng

https://catalog.churchofjesuschrist.org/record/71550f40-40e2-4f22-a513-d9efed66649a/0?view=browse

https://mormonr.org/qnas/vFgD6f/john_taylors_1886_revelation?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22720170685&gbraid=0AAAAAoS5E7acFZisa2VHLpSqmjwjxuxAo&gclid=Cj0KCQjw953DBhCyARIsANhIZoZY8hL6lOziHIlmcVnNbCHkiECSLz8brsdbJy0ni61rrba3Qcklb8oaAkVpEALw_wcB

https://www.dialoguejournal.com/articles/lds-church-authority-and-new-plural-marriages-1890-1904/

https://mormonr.org/qnas/vFgD6f/john_taylors_1886_revelation/research#re-fbkJxk-qnXgKg

https://bhroberts.org/records/fbkJxk-bB2xDk/byu_religious_studies_center_publication_on_john_taylor_discusses_the_1886_revelation

https://bhroberts.org/files/bHthmd/scan-bB2xDk-bHthmd.pdf?r=bB2xDk&t=eyJhbGciOiJkaXIiLCJlbmMiOiJBMjU2R0NNIn0..Ljnea7CqFcI514tv.MWAtt1USKQyIBx5hJeD1he-VlQl6HV5eDevc9XGHctIBqDnl3hQ6UY9uGlOYy3cJoJ6SG7H9UgXWNRtSHGg4AWQTt76BTFyruwynbZPv-ta9Sqwc1MiNTMA4D5bJ0wDKNLqn1I1ZW96aQh9fE3XonduR9AeovvqRkhlf80-xZsjjnHaGWGILhfe6hlbWunSLVvMxtMKbcmJywR4aR8z_2aD9_NRxC1-fb0e3If80Vy9otGsidu2NjHcmecljQwblGIFvHsSDUoBKqB8NH7VohmRAoJxTnqjoy8vYxcyw0j7Q8HcUBPyzQmLSU_lvRxvRly2pxjTCo6Ng-OlNVohEmFSQAWXo80Qi7R54xy1xIvW2_lP0pXMRw9VRIizzbfUcmspMcRwqC0aBtSI9_QhVFAiom1w.DIL9f7HVhjoKTWkeFO1Sqw

https://mormonpolygamydocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/1886-Revelation-article.pdf

https://www.fairlatterdaysaints.org/answers/John_Taylor%27s_statements_regarding_polygamy

https://rsc.byu.edu/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor#_note-40

https://timesandseasons.org/index.php/2025/06/john-taylor-and-the-1886-revelation/

https://www.josephsmithpapers.org/person/john-taylor

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-message-first-term

https://josephsmithfoundation.org/john-taylors-last-days-vision-1877/

https://www.fromthedesk.org/john-taylor-revelations/#_ftn1

https://rsc.byu.edu/champion-liberty-john-taylor/john-revelator-written-revelations-john-taylor#_noteref-14

https://web.archive.org/web/20080309131303/http://gainesjunction.tamu.edu/issues/vol3num1/ishin/ishin.pdf

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5JYcVJKnfmg

https://rsc.byu.edu/prophets-apostles-last-dispensation/john-whittaker-taylor

https://historicalgeneralconferences.weebly.com/john-w-taylor.html

https://tokensandsigns.org/betrayed-for-loyalty-john-w-taylor-and-polygamy/

https://mormondiscussionpodcast.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/09/John-W.-Taylor-Trial.pdf

https://sunstone.org/john-w-woolley-as-a-highly-trusted-mormon-from-september-1886-to-december-1913/

https://mormonfundamentalism.com/history/lorin-c-woolley-and-his-council-of-seven-friends/

https://mormonpolygamydocuments.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/MF0273.pdf

https://mormonfundamentalism.com/1886-revelation-importance/

https://www.fromthedesk.org/joseph-white-musser-mormon-fundamentalist/

https://prophetsseersandrevelators.wordpress.com/2022/09/01/third-manifesto/

https://www.intermountainhistories.org/items/show/704

https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/first-annual-message-first-term

 

MOGP: National Treasure: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368891/?ref_=tt_rvi_i_7 

Where it’s streaming: https://www.justwatch.com/us/movie/national-treasure 

Information about Charles Carroll: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Carroll_of_Carrollton# 

Explore the Knights Templar:  https://www.centreofexcellence.com/the-knights-templar/# 

 

Happy News: A new diabetes treatment could free people from insulin injections: https://www.sciencenews.org/article/type-1-diabetes-cell-therapy-insulin 

 

Other appearances: Chris Shelton interviewed us in the beginning of a series on Mormonism. Here’s the most recent episode on https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsofor4IgR8&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g&index=65&t=3640s

And here is our discussion about Mormon succession https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDxjD7ucajI&list=PLGrPM1Pg2h72ADIuv8eYmzrJ-ppLOlw_g&index=56

 

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