Brigham Young once stated that Joseph’s consent was required for a person to be able to enter into the celestial kingdom of heaven, because Joseph was now reigning there, like God. He also said that Joseph “was a god to us” and that he himself was “an apostle of Joseph Smith,” saying that “every spirit that does not confess that God sent Joseph Smith and revealed the everlasting gospel to and through him, is of Anti-christ.”

From The Mormon Mirage, Third Edition, to be released April 2009, Zondervan.

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