I've been thinking about this quote from Joseph Smith and I'm curious what everyone else's thoughts are on it, in relation to our current situation today.
"There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party. The United States will spend her strength and means warring in foreign lands until other nations will say, “Let’s divide up the lands of the United States,” then the people of the U.S. will unite and swear by the blood of their fore-fathers, that the land shall not be divided. Then the country will go to war, and they will fight until one half of the U.S. army will give up, and the rest will continue to struggle. They will keep on until they are very ragged and discouraged, and almost ready to give up—when the boys from the mountains will rush forth in time to save the American Army from defeat and ruin. And they will say, “Brethren, we are glad you have come; give us men, henceforth, who can talk with God.” Then you will have friends, but you will save the country when its liberty hangs by a hair, as it were." - Joseph Smith jr.
You have used this one befor, what is the referince?
ReplyDeleteSpell check M. Galt, spell check.... we have talked about this before...
ReplyDeleteWednesay June 19, 1844 8 days before he was martyred. It comes from the journal of Mosiah Lyman Hancock who recorded a number of things Joseph Smith expounded about the route the Saints should take to Utah.
ReplyDeleteThere are many references made to this prophecy by Brigham Young and others but I like what Ezra T. Benson said about it:
1961
Ezra Taft Benson, Conference Report, October 1961, p. 70
In connection with the attack on the United States, the Lord told the Prophet Joseph Smith there would be an attempt to overthrow the country by destroying the Constitution. Joseph Smith predicted that the time would come when the Constitution would hang, as it were, by a thread, and at that time "this people will step forth and save it from the threatened destruction." (Journal History, Brigham Young's Speech, July 4, 1854.)
It is my conviction that the elders of Israel, widely spread over the nation will at that crucial time successfully rally the righteous of our country and provide the necessary balance of strength to save the institutions of constitutional government.
I also really like this reference to Joseph Smith's prophecy:
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Judge Joseph E. Nelson, BYU Speeches, April 24, 1963, p. 3:
Our government is an organization which was to, and since has, enacted, judged and enforced law through and by legislative, judicial and executive departments. It is encumbent on the American people to steadfastly maintain the historic balance of power by the three branches of government if our political system is to be preserved. If this is not done then the thread by which it has been predicted the Constitution will hang will be clipped and our form of government will disappear. WE, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, MUST NOT BECOME SO INTERNATIONALLY MINDED AS TO SELL OUR BIRTHRIGHT FOR A SPURIOUS PROMISE OF WORLD PEACE. The most nationally-minded people are our enemies. We must remain faithful to our pledge, regardless of charges of chauvinism, to preserve America "with our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor."
Htank You Grate White Dowwner
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