This trinity of kingdoms comprised a very different resurrection scene from the one he had described in the Book of Mormon, where the “lake of fire and brimstone” figured prominently in the sermons of the Indian prophets. Joseph had taken a long step toward Universalism, for even the “liars, sorcerers, adulterers, and whoremongers” were guaranteed telestial glory, and only a handful of unregenerates called the Sons of Perdition were to be eternally damned.
