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Thank you very much for the lead. I did and found a very detailed site explaining this prophecy, said to be an oral one. The very interesting thing to one not familiar with it before is that the conditions that were supposed to have been prophesied are so general and have sufficient accuracy that they do not differ appreciably from what hundreds of non-Mormons have predicted or said. In fact if a candidate pledges to do something about such conditions he does not differ noticeably from his competitors. I do not see the harm in any candidate having such beliefs. In a real sense when Pat Robertson ran he had such beliefs and also voiced them. And Pat Robertson, like his father before him, is a Baptist I believe. Incidentally, I had the honor of knowing Willis Robertson when growing up and into my early adult years. He was a fine man and one of the best Senators we’ve had, but his son at times does things and says things that I have as much or more difficulty in following as this business about this prophecy. What is the harm in believing that God might want you to straighten out the problems that we have and that in helping to salve them you are doing His work?

I don’t for example, believe everything in the writings of the Reverend Moon, or for that matter, Swedenborg, but they have some excellent points and, overall, there has been much benefit. I shudder to think, for example, what it would have been like in Washington if part of the Rev. Moon’s vision had not encompassed starting the Washington Times and we had only had the Washington Compost, as Ollie North calls it, all these years.