I can just imagine that Satan, still smarting from righteous Job's ability to handle what Satan threw at him thousands of years earlier, chose a more unrighteous glass-looker, treasure-hunting, money-seeker, wife-thiefing, Joseph Smith, Jr. as a future target down the road.
(You remember that convo Satan had with God in Job 1, right?)
Well, you may not be aware of that convo Satan had with God just before the Book of Mormon was penned. For the first time ever, 'tis revealed in public:
Lucif: "Hey, Most High, I've got a new target."
Most High: "You keep striking out. Who now?"
Lucif: "Well, his name is Joseph Smith, Jr."
Most High: "You're picking the easiest of targets, aren't you?"
Lucif: "You bet. (If you were a gambling God, that is)."
Most High: "Well, like Job, I've got one restriction."
Lucif: "And that is?"
Most High: "There's got to be some Truth in Advertising in the up-front 'revelations' you're going to impress upon him."
Lucif: "Truth in advertising?"
Most High: "Well, you will hear about that term more as a new era unfolds."
Lucif: "Truth in advertising....Hmmm..."
Lucif (to Junior demonic implementer): "Well, how did you comply with the 'truth in advertising' standard set by you know who?"
J-DRI (Jr. Demonic 'revelation' implementer): "See, it's all right there."
Lucif: "Where?"
J-DRI (Jr. Demonic 'revelation' implementer): "Right there...Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 9:9, Jacob's teachings about the infinite atonement...so we slipped it in there..."And our spirits must have become like unto him, and we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our first parents, who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness."
Lucif: "So, you had to put it all in plain sight for them to see? Isn't that too obvious? Look at that! You came right out and told them I transform into an 'angel of light!'"
J-DRI (Jr. Demonic 'revelation' implementer): "Well, not only that, just to make sure we didn't unnecessarily raise the ire of ykw, I put it in their other early 'revelation,' too. See, here Smith was speaking of himself in the 1833 Book of Commandments, "Covenants and Commandments of the Lord" section II, when he wrote: "...God ministered unto him by an holy angel whose countenance was as lightning, and who garments were pure and white above all other whiteness, and gave unto him commandments which inspired him, and gave him power from on high, by the means which were before prepared, to translate the book of Mormon..." (verse 2, p. 78)
Lucif: "Wow! You've placed it all in plain sight!"
J-DRI (Jr. Demonic 'revelator' implementer): "The perfect place to imbed a little truth is smack dab in the center, with falsehood all around it!"
Well, satan lied to Eve “you can become a god”, he lied to Joe.
It’s amazing how mormons will claim the “two personages” (angels?) are God and Jesus.
It’s inferred, but the First Vision accounts are so contradictory and JS never explicitly says they are God and Jesus in any of the various First Vision accounts I can find.
I find it curious how such experiences can have such conflicting recollections surrounding them. Wait, if you have so many versions I guess it’s easy to get them all mixed up.