Commenting on Joseph Smith’s “prophecy in the name of the Lord God . . . <that the? Son of Man will not come in the heavns till I am 85. Years old 48 years hence or about 1890” (April 6, 1843), non-LDS scholar Richard Donald Ouellette noted that:
As the 1843 statement indicates, Smith wasn’t sure how to
interpret his inspiration on this matter; perhaps as a result, it never became
an LDS tenet that Christ would come in 1890-1891. (Richard Donald Ouellette, “The
Mormon Temple Lot Case: Space, Memory, and Identity in a Divided New Religion”
[PhD Dissertation; The University of Texas at Austin, May, 2012], 491)
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