088 The First Violence Against Latter-day Saints

Church History Matters

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🗓️ 5 November 2024

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In the late summer of 1831, select groups of Church members began settling on the far western frontier of the United States in Jackson County, Missouri. Earlier that year the prophet Joseph Smith had received a revelation identifying the area as “the land of promise” and “the place for the city of Zion,” and shortly afterward the gathering to Zion had begun. Tensions between Church members and the non-Latter-day Saint locals in Jackson County existed almost immediately. By the spring of 1832 Missouri locals began verbally threatening the saints and occasionally vandalizing their homes to intimidate them and get them to leave. By the summer of 1833 the hatred and fear of the locals erupted into full-blown violence against Church members culminating in their forcible expulsion from Jackson County. On this episode of Church History Matters, we take a close look at the various factors that led to this violent eviction of the Saints from Jackson County, the response of the Missouri governor to this illegal action in his state, and the revelations received by Joseph Smith responding to this severe treatment.

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0:00.0	In the late summer of 1831, select groups of church members began settling on the far-western frontier of the United States in Jackson County, Missouri.
0:15.0	Earlier that year, the prophet Joseph Smith had received a revelation identifying the area as the land of promise and the place for the city of Zion.
0:24.6	And shortly afterward, the gathering to Zion had begun.
0:28.6	Tensions between church members and the non-Latter-day St. Locals in Jackson County existed almost immediately.
0:35.6	By the spring of 1832, Missouri locals began verbally threatening
0:39.9	the saints and occasionally vandalizing their homes to intimidate them and get them to leave.
0:46.1	By the summer of 1833, the hatred of the locals erupted into full-blown violence against
0:51.9	church members, culminating in their forcible expulsion
0:55.1	from Jackson County. Today on Church History Matters, we take a close look at the various
1:00.8	factors that led to this violent eviction of the saints from Jackson County, the response of the
1:05.4	Missouri governor to this illegal action in his state, and the revelations received by Joseph
1:10.1	Smith responding to this severe treatment.
1:12.6	I'm Scott Woodward and my co-host is Casey Griffiths and today Casey and I dive into our second episode in this series on peace and violence in Latter-day Saint history.
1:22.6	Now let's get into it.
1:27.5	Hi Casey.
1:28.8	Hey, Scott.
1:29.6	How are we doing?
1:30.6	Great, man.
1:31.5	Here we are, episode two of peace and violence in Latter-day Saint history.
1:37.4	Yeah, and I should mention, we're basing this series off the Gospel Topics essay,
1:42.5	Peace and Violence Among 19th Century Latter-day Saints.
1:45.5	It's a good read. It's not super long, and it's definitely worth your time. And also,
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