Nehor's teachings had at any rate the interest of novelty to the Nephites, yet some of them were older than the world, itself. They had been rejected in the Councils of Heaven before Lucifer, the Son of the Morning, fell. He preached, as do most impostors, that all priests should while away their time in pleasant surroundings, and should not be required to labor with their hands, but, instead, should be upheld and maintained in their office by public support.