Why Back Data Prophecies Matter

In the vision and first Nephi there are specific events covering from Columbus arriving in America in 1492. Yet after those specific prophecies, we get nothing after Joseph Smith's lifetime. And so as we talked about, I'm not even saying the Book of Mormon should speak about how in the future people use the Internet to fact check its claims. All of that stuff comes after. It allows us to basically date when the Book oformon is written because we could see what's in there. We could see what’s not in there. That puts it at a very specific timeframe.