2 Nephi 3:1-25

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Prophet of the Latter Days

It was decreed in the counsels of eternity, long before the foundations of the earth were laid, that he, Joseph Smith, should be the man, in the last dispensation of this world, to bring forth the word of God to the people, and receive the fullness of the keys and power of the Priesthood of the Son of God. The Lord had his eyes upon him, and upon his father, and upon his father’s father, and upon their progenitors clear back to Abraham, and from Abraham to the flood, from the flood to Enoch, and from Enoch to Adam. He has watched that family and that blood as it has circulated from its fountain to the birth of that man. He was fore-ordained in eternity to preside over this last dispensation.

Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 108

Joseph son of Lehi: Verses 1, 3, 22, 23, 25

Joseph of Egypt: Verses 4-7, 14-16, 22

Joseph Smith Jr. (also referred to as “a choice seer”): Verses 6-11, 13-15, 18

Joseph Smith Sr. Verse 15

The etymology of the name Joseph is usually given as “the Lord addeth.”…Though appropriate, such renderings have veiled a richer meaning associated with the name. In Genesis 30:24,…the Hebrew text reads Asaph, which means “he who gathers,” “he who causes to return.”…Thus the great prophet of the Restoration was given the name that…describes his divine calling.

Joseph Fielding McConkie and Robert L. Millet, Doctrinal Commentary, 1:209