I am Ryan McKnight.

I'm Kara Santa Maria.

I am Christopher Smith.

Hi, I'm Andrew Torres.

This is Naked Mormonism.

The Serial Mormon History podcast.

Inevitable is a dreaded word rarely is inevitable associated with something that's good for everybody

i mean even stating that like victory was inevitable implies that defeat was inevitable for

half of the players inevitable doesn't care what we think or what we say or do

to mitigate its power. It just is. We can fight inevitable and some of humans' greatest

achievements have been accomplished in the face of seemingly inevitable defeat, but that seemingly is a powerful

modifying word when we talk about inevitable. The Navu expositor had been destroyed. The fosters,

the higbys, the laws, and Joseph H. Jackson were the primary enemies of the prophet. Battle lines

had been drawn. The tribes had balconized, and conflict was

inevitable. The mad tyrant's reign would inevitably come to an end one way or another. We know

the inevitability of the situation, but absolutely nothing was set in stone on June 17, 1844.

Joseph Smith was again under arrest, and he was headed to the Navajo Municipal Court with 17 of his co-conspirators on charges of riot.

The list of options that Joe had to escape the legal charges was growing rather short. The anti-Mormon

political party in nearby Carthage, Illinois, were

gathering strength and reinforcements from Missouri. And many of those reinforcements from

Missouri were still smarting from the Missouri Mormon War and the attempted assassination of

former Governor Lilburn W. Boggs. Everybody in the state wanted Joseph Smith to be

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