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Oct 18, 2026
Matt RoperGUEST
And they were able to repute some of the arguments against the Book of Mormon based on these new discoveries.
Matt RoperGUEST
Now, over the 19th century, as things kind of developed, you know, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, they're moved to Utah, and they moved west, and the church is expanding into other places like Mexico and Canada and other places.
Matt RoperGUEST
Parley P. Pratt goes on a mission to South America for a little while.
Matt RoperGUEST
It's really hard, but they're learning things, and they're learning more.
Jenny ReederGUEST
And I spent a lot of time tracking down everything.
Jenny ReederGUEST
I went out to Independence, Missouri, to look at artifacts and, and documents in the Community of Christ archive.
Jenny ReederGUEST
I had a lot of people helping me and reading through it and giving me different sources, and that's how it came about.
Casey GriffithsHOST
Wow.
Jenny ReederGUEST
I would give anything to have her journal," but it, it doesn't exist.
Jenny ReederGUEST
And sometimes I wonder, what if she did have a journal, and then she destroyed it or burned it because she didn't want that record? But w- I did, I mined through every single letter she wrote, everything she said in Relief Society.
Jenny ReederGUEST
The Community of Christ archive had a lot more letters that I hadn't seen in the Church History Library, so it was cool.
Jenny ReederGUEST
I also read as many books as I could find about her.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
the houses of Habsburg Lorraine, whose titles are Dukes of Lorraine and Kings of Jerusalem, Planterd, Luxembourg, Montpezat, Montesquieu, among many others, including the Freeman family and hundreds of others.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
Be wise as serpents revealed for the first time, as far as I know, how all the heads, presidents of the LDS and RLDS have been descendants of the Merovingian dynasty, and they and the Masons have both used the Merovingian symbol, the B, the house of David, In my research of high-level Satanists, it became clear the bloodline that was key in their minds was the House of David.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
Not Jesus Christ's lineage, I discovered that the House of David had set up a kingdom in southern France.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
I discovered this while rummaging through history books on the Middle Ages.
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DJ PetrovskyHOST
The Be Wise as Serpents book makes the connections of the Mormon leadership, but it doesn't appear that many have read or understood the significance.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
Maybe this here will help.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
The top Mormon leadership, LDS and RLDS, all are related in descendants of the Merovingians, but for sake of discussion, let us take Brigham Young.
DJ PetrovskyHOST
Brigham Young's first name was Brigham.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
Dennis was born in Los Angeles and Cheryl was born in Yakima, Washington.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
They were both members of the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as RLDS, an offshoot of Mormonism.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
The couple married in 1970 in Independence, Missouri, where the church is based.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
Dennis was a computer programmer for a bank and Cheryl taught preschool and Sunday school.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
They were described by a friend in an old newspaper article as sweet, family-oriented people.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
In the 1980s, Dennis Avery moved his family from Missouri to Kirtland, Ohio, looking for a better life.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
Their three girls went to Madison local schools as Dennis and Cheryl got swept up in Jeffrey Lundgren's teachings at the Kirtland Temple, where he was a lay minister in the RLDS Church.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
By 1987, Lundgren's teachings became more radical and the church kicked him out.
John G. TurnerGUEST
Mm-hmm.
John DehlinHOST
And again, we'll talk about it later, but it seems like the Smith family had the impression that there should be blood lineage as the successor, and obviously, the Community of Christ, the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, that's what they end up going with.
John DehlinHOST
So w- what, did, do we know if Joseph gave anyone the impression, especially in the Smith family, that his successor should be a blood relative? And let's just address it at the, at, while we're talking about it, what's the legitimacy to some type of prayer or blessing that Joseph Smith may or may not have given Joseph Smith III, his son, or others, suggesting that a blood child would be the successor?
John G. TurnerGUEST
Yeah.
Richie SteadmanHOST
And, you know, just this whole thing, so things like that.
Richie SteadmanHOST
But the things that we would encounter, um, one, uh, there are a lot of Community of Christ members in one of the areas that I served in, and so the whole approach is, "We believe we have a book where, you know, Christ visited the Americas." [laughs] And then people would come back from their back room, and they're like, "Yeah, here's my triple combination of the, you know," or, "Here's my Book of Mormon.
Richie SteadmanHOST
I got one," and they've got it embossed.
Richie SteadmanHOST
In some cases they've even purchased it from Deseret Book because it was a great leather binding or something like that.
Richie SteadmanHOST
Like, people being murdered in the name of a cult in a barn, and it ran very much adjacent to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Richie SteadmanHOST
I don't believe that the, uh, the guy who killed people was, uh, still a member, or active, or had been, but it, like, it was just close enough.
Richie SteadmanHOST
Maybe it was Community of Christ, or maybe he had left, and then he did it.
Richie SteadmanHOST
It's one of these, uh, situations where he thought he was a prophet, and then told-
Ron LuffSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
No matter how many times I fantasize that I could, you can't rewrite the past.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
Ron grew up in the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, known as RLDS, an offshoot of Mormonism.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
He became swept up in Lundgren's teachings with more than a dozen other followers from Missouri, who followed him to the Kirtland Temple in Ohio, where Lundgren was a lay minister.
Sarah GoldenbergCORRESPONDENT
By 1987, he had been kicked out of the church as his teachings became more radical and violent.
Valerie HamakerHOST
Do you feel, Greg, that perhaps the 12 entertaining or the tw- I guess the Q15 entertaining such a thing would be challenging because what it would be essentially inviting is individuals walking away from their positions of power?
Greg PrinceGUEST
I think there's only one way that this could happen, and that would be that a sitting president who was in full control of his own faculties and was viewed as such by the church membership would get up in a st- general conference and say whether or not he wanted to preface it with, "Thus saith the Lord," but say, "From this point on, this will be the order of succession in this church, and I will take the lead and step down." That's what happened in what's the Community of Christ, used to be the reorganized LDS church, that since the death of Joseph Smith, it had gone father to son, but service till life.
Greg PrinceGUEST
And W. Wallace Smith in one of their world conferences, uh, said, "At our next conference," which for them is two years, "I will step down, and my son will be my successor." And then W.
Greg PrinceGUEST
Wallace became a beloved elder statesman in that church and didn't get in the way when his son Wallace was running things Uh, I think that's the way you'd have to do it.
Sharon FaldutoNARRATOR
Visitation between 12 and 2 and service at 2 p.m. Roger Landon Reed, age 90, of Cedar Rapids, passed away on September 25th at the Dennis and Donna Oldorf Hospice House of Mercy in Hiawatha.
Sharon FaldutoNARRATOR
A visitation will be held from 10 to 11 a.m. Saturday, October 17th at Community of Christ, located at 1500 Blairs Ferry Road, Hiawatha, with a memorial service beginning at 11 a.m. Military honors will follow and a luncheon will be served following the services.
Sharon FaldutoNARRATOR
Vicki Lynn Beckler, born Vicki Lynn Scheinman, surrounded by her loved ones.
Sharon FaldutoNARRATOR
Vicki, age 60, of Tiffin, went to be with the Lord on October 7th.
Patrick BishopGUEST
Um, and so two interesting things happened.
Patrick BishopGUEST
He starts to try and sell them amongst people of the RLDS faith in the Midwest, and he says in his, uh, journal, "Not selling well.
Patrick BishopGUEST
Our people don't like them."
Greg MatsenHOST
Hm.
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Greg MatsenHOST
Mm-hmm
Patrick BishopGUEST
... to Frederick Madison Smith.
Patrick BishopGUEST
He's a president of the RLDS church.
Greg MatsenHOST
Mm-hmm.
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