🔥 Section 132 — The Stone the Church Keeps Tripping Over
🔥 Section 132 — The Stone the Church Keeps Tripping Over
🪨 Every generation of Saints stumbles over this same stone.
It’s the one that keeps bruising tender hearts, confusing honest seekers, and twisting what should have been the sweetest covenant on earth into one of the most painful.
That stone is Doctrine & Covenants 132.
📜 Joseph’s True Revelation vs. Brigham’s Version
Let’s start with what Joseph Smith actually taught.
In 1835, the Doctrine & Covenants carried Section 101, declaring clearly:
“We believe that one man should have one wife, and one woman but one husband, except in case of death.”
That was canon law in Joseph’s day.
No talk of “plural wives,” no hidden commandments.
Then on July 12, 1843, Joseph dictated a revelation about sealing power—the Holy Spirit of Promise, eternal marriage, Abraham’s covenant, and the order of God’s house.
William Clayton wrote it down.
But after Joseph’s death, Brigham Young, William Clayton, and a small circle took control of those papers.
When the Saints finally re-canonized the revelation in 1876, two big things had changed:
The 1835 monogamy statement was deleted.
A new Section 132 appeared—stuffed with polygamy justifications, threats against Emma, and verses praising David and Solomon.
It doesn’t even sound like Joseph anymore.
One speaks with the tone of a prophet calling people to purity.
The other sounds like empire builders excusing their appetites.
💔 “Uncomfortable”? Try “Cruel.”
The 2025 Come Follow Me manual says plural marriage was “uncomfortable” for early Saints.
“Uncomfortable” ??
Tell that to Emma, on her knees pleading with God while her husband was accused of betrayal.
Tell that to Zina, Eliza, and young Helen Mar Kimball, pressured into “marriages” they didn’t want.
That isn’t uncomfortable. That’s heartbreak.
The Book of Mormon is unmistakable:
“There shall not any man among you have save it be one wife; and concubines he shall have none.
For I, the Lord God, delight in the chastity of women.”
— Jacob 2:27-28
And the Nemenhah Records add:
“Women were not made to be divided among men like chattel.
The Creator placed in them the sacred stewardship of the home,
and it is not given that any man should usurp it.” ✔ VERIFIED
So why are we still defending a “revelation” that spits in the face of both?
🕵️ Historical Smoke & Mirrors
The Utah version of Section 132 was altered, edited, and weaponized long after Joseph’s death.
His journals were changed. His sermons rewritten.
And yet we’re still told to swallow it whole.
Friends—truth doesn’t fear sunlight.
If the Church truly believes Joseph’s 1843 revelation matches today’s 132, then release the original William Clayton journal and let the words speak for themselves.
Because every true record—
the Book of Mormon, the Nemenhah, the Books of Remembrance—
all agree: the everlasting covenant is about sealing to Christ, not about collecting wives.
✝️ The Abraham Excuse
Some try to justify it: “Well, God tested Abraham—sometimes He asks hard things.”
Yes, He did.
But Abraham didn’t kill Isaac.
God provided a ram and condemned human sacrifice.
Plural marriage, on the other hand, did sacrifice thousands of women’s hearts and families.
That isn’t a test of faith. That’s the fruit of man’s lust disguised as law.
⚖️ The Fruit Test
Jesus gave us a simple test:
“By their fruits ye shall know them.” — Matthew 7:20
The fruit of Section 132?
First wives coerced into consent.
Teenagers married off as “sacrifices.”
Families torn apart.
Women told their salvation depended on sharing their husband.
That’s not celestial.
That’s Babylon wearing temple robes.
The Nemenhah Records warn the same:
“Behold, the shepherds shall teach them that their obedience is mighty to save…
but from what are they saved? … Behold, the effects of sin are that they do cause us to turn our faces from the Peacemaker.” — Mohrhohnahyah 8:30-34
Obedience to men’s decrees doesn’t save.
Only the Peacemaker does.
🕊️ The Corrected Section 132 (What It Likely Said)
If we ever saw Joseph’s clean copy, it would harmonize perfectly with the rest of scripture.
It would teach:
Only covenants sealed by the Holy Spirit of Promise endure beyond death.
Marriage sealed by God’s word and Spirit continues in eternity.
Eternal lives mean knowing God and Christ—not multiplying wives.
The covenant promise to Abraham is fulfilled through Christ, not through concubines.
Priesthood keys are given to bind and loose in righteousness, not to exploit.
Sin after covenant brings consequence, but lust is never sanctified.
And the threats to Emma? Gone.
The justifications for David and Solomon? Gone.
The loopholes and coercion? Gone.
What remains is the gospel Joseph actually preached—pure, ordered, sealed by the Spirit, centered in Christ.
🌾 “Trust but Verify”
President Reagan said it best: Trust but verify.
God’s truth can handle scrutiny.
When a doctrine is true, you’ll find multiple witnesses:
Bible → Book of Mormon → Joseph’s authentic teachings → the Nemenhah.
When those witnesses disagree, it’s time to re-check the source.
Section 132, as printed today, doesn’t pass that test.
❤️ The Real New and Everlasting Covenant
The Savior’s way is stunningly simple:
Repent.
Be baptized.
Receive the Holy Ghost.
Come unto Me.
(2 Nephi 31–32; 3 Nephi 11)
No plural wives required.
No theological gymnastics.
Just His voice and His love.
The new and everlasting covenant is to be sealed to Christ—and through Him, to the one eternal companion He ordains. Everything else is human static.
🌿 Hope and Healing
The Lord has corrected false traditions before—
Adam-God, blood atonement, priesthood bans.
He will correct this one too.
Truth is rising from the dust.
Documents are surfacing.
Hearts are waking up.
And the Spirit is whispering again:
“Follow the Savior, not the Section.
Follow the Voice, not the Robe.”
🔚 My Witness
I’ve studied this for decades.
I’ve wrestled, prayed, fasted, and searched every true record I could find.
And the answer keeps returning the same, quiet, certain way:
Plural marriage is not of Christ.
The new and everlasting covenant is Christ.
He delights in the chastity, love, and equality of His children.
He calls men and women to walk together—side by side, not stacked in hierarchies of worth.
When we finally lay aside the stone of Section 132,
we’ll find underneath it the firm foundation that never cracked:
Jesus Christ, the Rock of Israel.
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