Section 132 Falsely Prophesies Concerning Joseph’s Children with Other Women

Section 132 in the Utah LDS Doctrine and Covenants contains a false prophecy concerning the promise that Joseph will be the father of numerous children, “an hundred-fold.” It declares:

I will bless him [Joseph] and multiply him and give unto him an hundred-fold in this world, of fathers and mothers, brothers and sisters, houses and lands, wives and children.

(LDS DC 132:55; italics added)

The descendants of Joseph and Emma Hale Smith could not number over 2,000. (See “Smith’s descendant on family quest,” by Carrie A. Moore, Deseret News: October 5, 2007) But, where are the tens of thousands of offspring who would have likely been descended from the hundred-fold children of the many plural wives that the Utah LDS Church has charged to Joseph? To date, not a single child from an alleged polygamous union has been proven to be Joseph’s!

The preponderance of reliable evidence indicates that Joseph Smith had only one wife, and it is historically provable he fathered nine children with her. Yet Section 132 promised that Joseph would have a hundred extra wives and children! The fact that this did not come to pass is one more evidence that Section 132 is false.