S4 E3 Why Joseph Smith: Prophecies and History of Joseph Smith and Family with Andrew Skinner (JSH 1:1-26)
The Scriptures Are Real
Kerry Muhlestein
4.8 • 540 Ratings
🗓️ 12 January 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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In this episode Andrew Skinner and Kerry explore the beginning of the Restoration. They first delve into the prophecies about Joseph Smith and the restoration in general. They also look at the large societal, historical, and cultural movements that created the environment for the Restoration. They look at the specific history of the Smith family, and how that lead to Joseph's experience in the Sacred Grove. They talk about the experiences that Joseph Smith Sr. and Lucy Mack Smith had that were part of Joseph Smith's predicament and why he went to pray in the Grove. They also explore the amazing and profound elements of the First Vision.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the Scriptures or Real podcast. |
| 0:12.1 | This is the podcast where we talk about elements of the scriptures that help them become more real to us because we believe that helps us draw more power out of them and we need all the help we can get. |
| 0:20.8 | I'm your host, Kerry Mealstein, and I'm so happy to have with me again my dear friend |
| 0:25.3 | and returning guest, almost a co-host, and very, very popular, and we love him. |
| 0:32.0 | This is Dr. Andrew Skinner. |
| 0:33.2 | Thanks for being with us, Andy. |
| 0:34.5 | Oh, thank you so much. |
| 0:36.0 | It's a pleasure, honestly, and a privilege to talk to you about the scriptures. |
| 0:41.8 | It's my joy as well. |
| 0:43.1 | And this is our first time that we've done so many together, but it's our first time here in our new studio. |
| 0:47.9 | And I should mention that actually we had donors that helped us create this studio, |
| 0:53.5 | both so that we could do this, but also so that other |
| 0:56.2 | people that have content they'd like to get out there and they just don't have recording |
| 0:59.8 | facilities so that they can use it. |
| 1:02.3 | So if you're someone in our audience that would like to record and use this studio, please |
| 1:08.5 | email us at the scriptures are real at gmail.com, |
| 1:11.0 | and we can work on hooking you up with this studio. Wonderful. It's terrific. Yeah, it is. It's their kind donors. We're happy to, we hope we can help a lot of people put good content out there. Well, bless them, honestly. Yeah. Yeah, we want to flood the earth with good stuff. Absolutely. |
| 1:31.5 | For our audience, Dr. Skinner's been on often enough. |
| 1:42.0 | Maybe we won't introduce him very much just to say a fine scholar and a gentleman and a good friend and former head of everything. |
| 1:47.5 | And so, but maybe we'll just get started. |
| 1:50.7 | We're doing the first vision today and kind of the background of the first vision. |
| 1:52.7 | So where would you like to go? |
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