How Joseph Smith's 1st Revelation...Gives Our 18th President, Dallin H, Oaks | Don Bradley E0045

It blew our minds when we found out this connection President Oaks has to church history.

Don Bradley—a Latter-day Saint historian who once left the Church and became an atheist, then found his way back—joins us to talk about some mind-blowing connections between Martin Harris and President Dallin H. Oaks.

Don walks us through hidden pieces of Church history that show how God’s hand was moving in more people than just Joseph Smith. We talk about Martin Harris’s early revelations before the Church was even organized, the meaning behind the Feast of Tabernacles, and how those same patterns show up again with President Oaks.

It’s one of those conversations that makes you realize the Restoration isn’t just a story from the past.

It’s still unfolding today.

0:00 – The wild connection between Martin Harris and President Oaks
3:00 – How the Spirit was working before the First Vision
7:20 – Feast of Tabernacles and the first use of the Urim and Thummim
11:45 – How Martin Harris funded and fulfilled prophecy
16:00 – Martin’s vision of Christ
22:00 – Repentance, suffering, and forgiveness
31:00 – King Benjamin’s sermon and taking on the name of Christ
36:00 – Prophetic timing and the Feast of Tabernacles today
47:00 – From Martin Harris to President Oaks—a legacy of witnesses
52:00 – Our call to be witnesses of Christ too