S6E9 Prepare, Don’t Predict the Second Coming

Standard of Truth

Dr. Gerrit Dirkmaat

Religion & Spirituality

4.9 • 990 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 79 minutes

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In this episode we discuss a litners email where he asks about “the day and the hour” quote attributed to Joseph Smith and how some YouTube voices use it to fuel end times certainty. Gerrit breaks down why this kind of content deserves real skepticism: source quality matters, corroboration matters, and the Joseph Smith Papers exist for a reason. He explains how cherry picked, poorly sourced, or context free quotes can create anxiety, drive clicks, and worst of all, set people up for spiritual whiplash when predictions fail. We had a couple of spots open up on our Standard of Truth Tour to Missouri/Illinois. We meet in Kansas City on Sunday, June 21st, and fly home from St. Louis on Saturday, June 27th. https://standardoftruth.com/tours/tour-missouri-nauvoo-carthage-springfield-st-louis-june-21-27-2026/ Sign up for our free monthly email: ⁠ ⁠https://standardoftruthpodcast.substack.com⁠ If you have any questions or possible topics of discussion for upcoming podcasts, please email us at: ⁠⁠questions@standardoftruthpodcast.com

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Standard of Truth podcast. In this podcast, Dr. Garrett Dirk-Mott and Dr. Richard
0:08.2	Leduc explore the early history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and the life
0:14.3	and teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith. They examine the original historical sources and provide
0:20.4	context for events of the past.
0:23.1	They approach the history of the church with faith, expertise, and humor.
0:37.4	Hi, welcome to another episode of the Standard of Truth podcast.
0:40.7	I almost forgot what our podcast was because Richard went to Japan.
0:45.0	While in Japan, he opened up a shop and decided he wasn't going to come back.
0:51.7	No, he came back.
0:52.6	Richard, say hello, so everyone knows you're here. Hello, Garrett. Thanks for having me back. It's 141 p.m. tomorrow for me right now. I am struggling. So you have time traveled. Oh, dude. First of all, Japan is the greatest place ever. Does D.D.I. You end up coming back in this game. There's a couple of things. I don't want to go full travel moni on this, but I will say a couple of things.
1:15.6	Japan is great. The food is great. The people are great. The transportation is great.
1:20.9	You can't find a trash can anywhere ever. They don't exist. But other than that uh somehow it's still cleaner than it is here
1:31.1	well they they don't need the trash cans because they don't uh have riots in the street and use
1:37.3	the trash cans yes yes it's been a minute since that's occurred but so anyway it was a blast there's
1:42.9	a couple things that i'd like to point out.
1:46.3	One of the things that was kind of funny is the first day we went to the fish market.
1:51.4	And we went with, it was my wife and my son Parker.
1:56.4	And Parker asked the girl at one of the stands on a date.
2:03.9	And so on Saturday, they went on a date.
2:07.1	So Becky and I just left him at Tokyo shower.
2:10.1	Did she speak English?
2:12.8	Yeah, she spoke some English.
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