ABSTRACT
This chapter explores mutual identity of the three agents in their agonistic achievement of salvation. It explores elements of Joseph’s identity forged in relation to Jesus and embracing other figures not least the biblical Enoch, a ‘seer’, a visionary ‘raised up unto his people’ by the Lord, who would create city of Zion, have the ‘plan of salvation’ manifest through him, and be called a ‘wild man’ by his peers. Aspect of Joseph’s ‘upbraiding’ text concerns ‘wisdom’, that sense of balanced judgment transcending mere detail, a quality valuable when circumnavigating theological quagmires and ecclesial wreckage. The doctrine and covenants furnish many cases of revelations giving ‘wisdom’, cases that in other contexts might be easily seen as expressions of decision making. That Jesus dwelt in the heavens was a matter of faith, albeit not in any conventional Christian sense. For, by the time of Joseph’s death, the heavens were integral to a developing plan of salvation extending from the pre-mortal world.
