Angel Moroni Visits Joseph Smith Each Year
Interestingly, Joseph Smith was not permitted to remove the golden plates in 1823 after his initial visits from the angel Moroni. Instead, the Lord intended to prepare him further.
Each year on September 22, Joseph Smith returned to the same place where he would receive instruction from the angel Moroni. In his own words, Joseph describes:
Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going to do, and how and in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.
What an amazing preparation, receiving instruction from an angel of the Lord. Such preparation was necessary for Joseph Smith to fulfill his divine calling as a prophet in the latter-days and to help restore the Church of Jesus Christ once again upon the earth.
Finally, in his annual visit with Moroni in 1827, Joseph Smith was permitted to receive the plates and begin translating.
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