The following are some YouTube clips that give some context to the fabulist false-prophetic culture that led to the crimes of Chad Daybell. If you’re not familiar with his story, it is covered in the Netflix documentary, Sins of Our Mother.
Warning: it is a very twisted rabbit hole that will mess with your head.
How it began
Eric Smith was a member of Chad Daybell’s inner circle, along with Julie Rowe and others.
Here, Eric recalls going “outside the box” before his excommunication for teaching the idea of multiple mortal probations:
How it developed:
The “church of the firstborn” is a core concept taught by Chad Daybell, Eric Smith, and Julie Rowe. The idea is that there is an elite church-within-the-church that supersedes the authority and powers of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It’s a gnostic apostate idea that they support with selective appeals to scripture.
After Chad and his “MMP past-lives wife” Lori Vallow manipulated Lori’s deranged brother Alex into going on a murder spree, Chad gave Alex an apostate patriarchal blessing invoking the “church of the firstborn” instead of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
Here Julie proclaims that Chad and Lori are innocent:
Here Julie recalls her excommunication:
Julie sees throughout the galaxy:
Julie sees the kids alive and well (after they have gone missing, shortly before they were found to have been murdered):
Turns out Julie can’t see through the galaxy after all:
How it ended:
The awful consequences: