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When the Council of Fifty Led the Church

By Rod Klingler, Thursday, 06 Mar 2025.

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After the Prophet Joseph Smith was killed, there was no president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints for more than three years! Who was in charge? This is an excerpt from the Extremists Liberty Bootcamp. Take the whole course – for FREE – here: https://treeoflibertysociety.com/courses/liberty-bootcamp/lessons/natural-law/.

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We look at a timeline where we have the martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram in June of 1844 and then we have in 1847 where Brigham Young has sustained the second president of the church.
Isn’t that interesting?
They have that many years where you’ve got basically three years where there is no president of the church.
We learn in the Joseph Smith papers that for three and a half years it was actually under the authority of the Council of 50, the kingdom of God, that the day-to-day operations of the saints moving from Illinois to Utah was under the direction of this Council of Fifty under the Kingdom of God because there was no church president.
So the Council was the governing body on the trek west.
It was the Kingdom of God organization that brought the saints across the plains not the authority of the church and it was the priesthood authority and operation.
It was the political body of the Kingdom of God that organized tens and fifties and brought the saints across the plains.
Some really interesting things that are brought out in the minutes now
that we have them.

Rod Klingler

Rod Klingler has been with Tree of Liberty Society since 2024. Prior to that, he founded and ran Defending Idaho. His reporting on COVID has been vindicated time and time again since then. He has edited books for people like Ben McClintock and D. Christian Markham. He currently serves as web dev, editor, and content creator, among other things.

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