Question #4: The Prophet Joseph Smith will be Exalted after his task is complete...

[Hemidakota]

We do know, the Prophet Joseph Smith will be exalted after his mission is complete. Being exalted, he will be glorified with those beloved companions that were sealed to him. What about Emma?

[tubaloth]

Most likley yes.

[lds9999]

Of course only the Lord knows, but in my opinion, Emma will be with Joseph. In my view, I'm not sure Joseph could have accomplished his life's mission without the love, care, support and strength of his dear wife. I hope no Latter-day Saint ever condemns this remarkable woman.

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It starts with a quote from Lucy Mack Smith: "I have never seen a woman in my life who would endure every species of fatigue and hardship from month to month, and from year to year, with that unflinching courage, zeal and patience which she has ever done. For I know that which she has had to endure. She has been tossed upon the ocean of uncertainty, she has breasted the storms of persecution and buffeted the rage of men and devils, which would have borne down almost any other woman."

[skalenfehl]

I hope no Latter-day Saint ever condemns this remarkable woman.

It has been mentioned in Elder's Quorum and I'm not sure if this is taken from a discourse or a General Authority or where it originated, but we should be careful not to judge Emma for we will have to answer to Joseph for it.

[Hemidakota]

So consensus is that Joseph 'calling is made sure', which entitles Emma with the same.

[rameumptom]

No, Emma's earned her own wings. Will she have to suffer in spirit prison hell for a time over things she needs to repent of? Possibly. But so will most of us, if I understand D&C 132 correctly, in that those who receive their calling and election made sure and then sin will be buffeted for a season before being exalted. I consider it the last purification we will go through prior to final judgment.

[tiancum]

Yes Emma had her calling and election made sure also, along with Joseph

[Elgama]

I more than agree that Emma earned her own exaltation a zillion times over.

-Charley

[Hemidakota]

Let me throw some 'coal' into the fire:

Now Latter-day Saints, I want to say this to you, when a man lifts his heel against the counsel that we give him, I know that man will apostatize, just as sure as he is a living being, unless he repents and refrains from such conduct. Brother George A. Smith has been reading a little out of the revelation concerning celestial marriage, and I want to say to my sisters that if you lift you heels against this revelation, and say that you would obliterate it, and put it out of existence if you had the power to nullify and destroy it, I say that if you imbibe that spirit and feeling, you will go to hell, just as sure as you are living women. Emma took that revelation, supposing she had all there was; but Joseph had wisdom enough to take care of it, and he had handed the revelation to Bishop Whitney, and he wrote it all off. After Joseph had been to Bishop Whitney's he went home, and Emma began teasing for the revelation. Said she-"Joseph, you promised me that revelation, and if you are a man of your word you will give it to me." Joseph took it from his pocket and said-"Take it." She went to the fire-place and put it in, and put the candle under it and burnt it, and she thought that was the end of it, and she will be damned as sure as she is a living woman. Joseph used to say that he would have her hereafter, if he had to go to hell for her, and he will have to go to hell for her as sure as he ever gets her (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 26 vols., 17:, p.160)

[Hemidakota]

But so will most of us, if I understand D&C 132 correctly, in that those who receive their calling and election made sure and then sin will be buffeted for a season before being exalted. I consider it the last purification we will go through prior to final judgment.

It is unlikely, for those that are called to the CFB will be purified in and through Christ; for they 'fear & tremble' in any transgression [see 2 Nephi 4:15-30] and will only perform those things that pleases GOD.

132: 29 Abraham received all things, whatsoever he received, by revelation and commandment, by my word, saith the Lord, and hath entered into his exaltation and sitteth upon his throne.

[WillowTheWhisp]

Could you please explain what CFB is.

[Hemidakota]

CFB = Church of the First Born

[WillowTheWhisp]

Thank you. I wasn't familiar with that.

[lds9999]

Let me throw some 'coal' into the fire:

I hope everybody interested in this will read this wonderful article printed in the Ensign in 1992.

My favorite quote is "...finding this testimony reminded me how precious each soul is in the sight of our Savior, whose compassion and power to save is beyond all comprehension."

Regardless of what has been said about Emma, I hope we never underestimate the saving power of the Savior's Atonement.

[jadams_4040]

We do know, the Prophet Joseph Smith will be exalted after his mission is complete. Being exalted, he will be glorified with those beloved companions that were sealed to him. What about Emma?

By all we know, yes he should be, but the only two that know fer sure is God and Joseph. :)

[Hemidakota]

Wow...that was a lot better article than Barbara Smith.

What was interesting in the article was this portion:

Emma lived almost thirty-five years after the martyrdom of her Prophet-husband. She died 30 April 1879 in her seventy-fifth year. In her last years she was greatly loved, and in the last hours of her life she was attended by her family: Louis Bidamon, Julia, Joseph III, 26 and Alexander. According to Alexander, Emma seemed to sink away, but then she raised up and stretched out her hand, calling, “Joseph! Joseph!” Falling back on Alexander’s arm, she clasped her hands on her bosom, and her spirit was gone. Both Alexander and Joseph thought she was calling for her son Joseph, but later, Alexander learned more about the incident. Sister Elizabeth Revel, Emma’s nurse, explained that a few days earlier Emma had told her that Joseph came to her in a vision and said, “Emma, come with me, it is time for you to come with me.” “As Emma related it, she said, ‘I put on my bonnet and my shawl and went with him; I did not think that it was anything unusual. I went with him into a mansion, and he showed me through the different apartments of that beautiful mansion.’ And one room was the nursery. In that nursery was a babe in the cradle. She said, ‘I knew my babe, my Don Carlos that was taken from me.’ She sprang forward, caught the child up in her arms, and wept with joy over the child. When Emma recovered herself sufficient she turned to Joseph and said, ‘Joseph, where are the rest of my children.’ He said to her, ‘Emma, be patient and you shall have all of your children.’ Then she saw standing by his side a personage of light, even the Lord Jesus Christ.” [27. Alexander Hale Smith, sermon given 1 July 1903, Bottlineau, North Dakota.]

I hope there will be peace in her soul.