My blog post for Come Follow Me: D&C 85-87
Excerpt:
Joseph Smith’s Prophecy on War (D&C 87) is a big thorn in the side of those critics of the Mormon Prophet. Some claim that ‘everyone knew that the North and South were going to war, so it wasn’t that big of a prophecy.’ However, the evidence is against that statement. Elder Orson Hyde supplemented that prophecy in 1858, claiming the destructions and wars were about to come upon the U.S.
When he made these claims, many eastern newspapers quoted him, mocking him. There was no way the States were going to war, according to the papers. In 1862, Elder Hyde commented on this fact as further evidence that the American people did not consider this prophecy valid prior to its accomplishment.
Secondly, we shall see that the Prophecy of War goes well beyond the Civil War, and deals with events down to our own day.
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