If memory serves, there was quite a cafuffle in Mormonism in the late 1880s and into 1890 over Joseph Smith's statements. For some Mormons, at least, Joseph's death didn't definitively nullify the prophecy.
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"Do not despise the words of prophets, but test everything; hold fast to what is good; " 1 Thess. 5:21 (NRSV)
We all trust our own unorthodoxies.
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