High-Ranking Leader Leaves Mormon Church: The Second Anointing | Ep. 1919

Mormon Stories Podcast

Dr. John Dehlin

Religion & Spirituality

4.6 • 5.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

As part of our mini-series on Mormonism's Second Anointing Ritual, we are re-releasing part of Hans and Birgitta's original interview discussing their participation in this exclusive ceremony. ⁠Hans H. Mattsson⁠ is a 3rd generation LDS church member from Sweden who served as a bishop and stake president in Sweden before serving in the LDS church 3rd Quorum of the Seventy from 2000-2005 in the Europe Central area under LDS Apostle L. Tom Perry. After discovering troubling information about the Church's history and truth claims, the Mattssons, along with many Swedish saints wanted answers, leading up to the Church's infamously poor attempt to keep them in the fold, now known as "the Swedish Rescue."

Truth Seeking with Hans & Birgitta Mattsson:

Part 1

Part 2

Remembering the Swedish Rescue:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Hans' book may be purchased here

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to another edition of Mormon Stories podcast. I'm your host
0:03.8	John Delinn. Today is July 18th, 2024 and we are about to release either the final or the penultimate episode in our epic second
0:16.2	anointing series on Mormon Stories podcast where we have been covering the
0:21.2	Mormon Church's most sacred, most secret, and most important ordinance that almost all Mormons don't know about, which is the second anointing.
0:30.0	This will be, I believe, the fourth of the fifth episode.
0:36.2	So far we had Brian Buchanan on
0:39.8	to talk about the history of the second anointing.
0:43.1	This is of course where a Mormon apostle basically
0:48.1	chooses a couple to go into the temple
0:52.0	and basically have what's called their calling an election
0:54.8	made sure which means that the apostle washes the feet of the husband and wife as I understand it and and then the wife takes the
1:07.0	husband into a secret special room in the temple, washes his feet and then gives the husband a blessing putting her hands on his head and the
1:16.2	purpose of this is to let the couple know that unless they murder someone they
1:21.6	will be exalted in heaven which means they will be exalted in heaven, which means they will have their own planets
1:26.1	and rule over those planets as gods. That's the Mormon plan of salvation. That's what the
1:30.3	second anointing is. It's been given to thousands or tens of
1:33.4	thousands of Mormons over the past 150 years. So we had Brian Buchanan talk
1:37.6	about that. We had Darren Klein come in and talk about finding out about his grandparents receiving of the second anointing
1:45.2	under the hands of Smith's Stubby Kimball. Then we re-aired for the first time on
1:50.3	YouTube Tom Phillips's accounting of his basically time in the church in the
1:57.8	UK serving ultimately as a state president twice and then receiving a second anointing
2:05.2	under the hands of Em Russell Ballard becoming friends of Jeffrey O'Holland and
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