Ping
I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed upon the Saints in the state of Missouri and punish the crimes committed by her officers that in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left. -- History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 394 -- May 1843If Congress will not hear our petition [to form Nauvoo into a federal district] and grant us protection, they will be broken up as a government, and God shall damn them, and there shall be nothing left of themnot even a grease spot. -- Quest for Refuge, Marvin S. Hill, p. 137
For what it is worth, here are a couple of Smith's prophesies concerning the future of the U.S. that I like even more than his White Horse one. When he got on a roll with his peep stone, Joseph was not afraid to go for broke ... with somewhat humorous results.
So Bishop Romney attacked the Palin family,
and Sen Thompson before,
and Mr. Cain and the Speaker after,
... just to PUT America on a string.
... so that the egomaniac Willard Romney
could pretend to “rescue” America from what
he did, himself, by surrogates and evil.
"I don't know that we teach that."
To the headline: yes