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JOSEPH SMITH JR’S CIVIL WAR PREDICTION (Mormonism Exposed)

Posted on November 21, 2020July 31, 2022 by WLPublications

Mormon history: Joseph Smith Jr

Mormons have said and written much about Joseph Smith Jr. and his so-called prophecy of the Civil War. They believe it is absolute proof of Smith’s prophetic ability. The prediction is in Doctrine and Covenants, section 87. Consider verses 3 and 4:

For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations in order to defend themselves against other nations, and then war shall be poured out upon all nations. And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.

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MORMON FALSE PROPHECY #5: Three Predictions by Smith, His Father, and Brigham Young

Posted on February 12, 2017February 18, 2020 by WLPublications

Joseph Smith Jr. predicted that the Nauvoo House, a boarding house that Smith began building in 1844, would belong to the Smith family forever. This “prophecy” is found in Doctrine and Covenants 124:56-60. Smith was killed in 1844. The Mormons were then driven from Nauvoo, Illinois. The Smith family has not possessed the house since.

MORMON FALSE PROPHECY #4: Joseph Smith Jr. “Predicted” the Civil War

Posted on February 12, 2017February 18, 2020 by WLPublications

Mormons have made much of Joseph Smith’s so-called prophecy of the Civil War. To many, it is absolute proof of their leaders’ ability to see future. The prophecy is found in its entirety is in Doctrine and Covenants, section 87. For our purposes, verses 3 and 4 are quoted:

For behold, the Southern States [sic] shall be divided against the Northern States [sic], and the Southern States [sic] will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations. And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.

MORMON FALSE PROPHECY #3: The Government Would Soon Be Overthrown

Posted on February 12, 2017February 18, 2020 by WLPublications

Joseph Smith Jr. predicted the United States would be soon overthrown, unless it redressed “wrongs” done to his followers by the state of Missouri. For a little background, a group of Mormons settled in Missouri and said about everything possible to alienate the non-Mormon residents. The “Saints,” as the Latter-day Saints* saw themselves, told their “Gentile” neighbors that God had given the Mormons their land and those who lived there before the Mormons came would soon be expelled by God. That and other incendiary claims fueled constant animosity between Mormons and earlier settlers. It wasn’t long until residents of the “Show Me” state showed the “saints” a lesson and drove them out.

MORMON FALSE PROPHECY #2: The Kinderhook Plates

Posted on February 12, 2017February 18, 2020 by WLPublications

A superficial study of early Mormonism shows founder Joseph Smith Jr. was a fraud. The Kinderhook Plates incident is very embarrassing to Latter Day Saints.

In 1843 three men, Bridge Whitten, Robert Wiley, and Wilber Fugate, made six metal plates and acid-etched Chinese characters on them. They gave the plates an aged look by rusting them, then burying them with some with Indian bones. Wiley spread the word that he had dreamed three nights in a row about buried treasure and invited help finding it. Mormons were present at the unearthing of the plates, which were brought to Joseph Smith Jr. He wrote, “I have translated a portion of them and found they contained the history of the person with which [sic] they were found. He was a descendant of Ham, through the loins of Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and that he received his kingdom from the ruler of heaven and earth.”¹

MORMON FALSE PROPHECY #1: Men Live on the Moon and Sun

Posted on February 12, 2017February 18, 2020 by WLPublications

While the word “prophecy” is often identified with foretelling the future, Biblical prophets were simply inspired to speak for God. Roughly 25% of their messages revealed things to come. Isaiah was prophesying when he foretold of Babylon’s fall before the city rose to greatness. He was also exercising his prophetic gift when he reproved Jewish sins. God’s word declares that the genuineness of a prophet is to be determined by 100% accuracy. Deuteronomy 18:22 declares:

WAS JOSEPH SMITH JR. GOD’S PROPHET?

Posted on July 5, 2016February 18, 2020 by WLPublications

Mormon historian, Joseph Fielding Smith admitted the founder of the Latter Day Saints, “was either a prophet of God, divinely called…, or he was one of the biggest frauds this world has seen. There is no middle ground.”^[1] The Bible warns of false teachers, “Ye shall know them by their fruits” (Matt. 7:16).* Of false prophets Deuteronomy 18:22 adds, ”When a prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken, but the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously: thou shalt not be afraid of him” (Deut. 18:22). True prophets were always 100% right. How about Smith’s predictions?