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:Two errors have been made regarding this Rocky Mountains prophecy. ''The first is to reject it out of hand as a later invention of the Utah Mormons''. There is enough discussion of possible westward moves during the later Nauvoo period to think that Joseph Smith, in one of his prophetic moods, might well have said something of the sort. The second error, even more serious, is to seize upon these fragments as the basis for concluding that Joseph knew exactly what the future held in store for the Saints down to every last detail. Like the constitution-by-a-thread prophecy, the Rocky Mountains prophecy ''probably had a basis in an actual statement''. The two prophecies are alike, too, in the fact that they were extremely popular later on when they served the needs of the Saints for encouragement {{ia}}.<ref>Davis Bitton, "Joseph Smith in the Mormon Folk Memory," in ''Restoration Studies'', ed. Maurice L. Draper, vol. 1, (Independence, Missouri, 1980), 85.</ref> | :Two errors have been made regarding this Rocky Mountains prophecy. ''The first is to reject it out of hand as a later invention of the Utah Mormons''. There is enough discussion of possible westward moves during the later Nauvoo period to think that Joseph Smith, in one of his prophetic moods, might well have said something of the sort. The second error, even more serious, is to seize upon these fragments as the basis for concluding that Joseph knew exactly what the future held in store for the Saints down to every last detail. Like the constitution-by-a-thread prophecy, the Rocky Mountains prophecy ''probably had a basis in an actual statement''. The two prophecies are alike, too, in the fact that they were extremely popular later on when they served the needs of the Saints for encouragement {{ia}}.<ref>Davis Bitton, "Joseph Smith in the Mormon Folk Memory," in ''Restoration Studies'', ed. Maurice L. Draper, vol. 1, (Independence, Missouri, 1980), 85.</ref> | ||
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Jerald and Sandra Tanner claim that a prophecy from Joseph about the Saints' move to the Rocky Mountains was forged after the fact and inserted into the History of the Church. They provide the following sources for this claim:
This use of sources is dishonest and misleading.
None of these sources support the argument:
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