Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago

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Why did Joseph Smith receive the gold plates on September 22, 1827?

Historian Don Bradley started mapping what happened in the weeks that followed and noticed something strange.

The first event aligned with the Feast of Trumpets.

The next with the Day of Atonement.

Then came the Feast of Tabernacles.

Three festivals. Three events. Three for three.

And as far as Bradley could determine, the pattern had been sitting there unnoticed for nearly 200 years.

Then the festivals ran out.

But Bradley kept counting.