Terrible Revolution Ep. 495 The Cultural Hall

10 Little Known Facts about Latter-day Saint Beliefs on the Last Days and Prophecy

12:51 – 1) The Second Coming is complicated!

16:19 – 2) Towards the end of Joseph Smith’s life, he organized the Council of Fifty, which he envisioned would function as a millennial government.

25:11 – 3) Joseph Smith really did prophesy that the Constitution of the United States would be in danger and the Saints would protect it.

32:58 – 4) Several major prophecies credited to Church leaders were not actually made by Church leaders.

38:40 – 5) Joseph Smith’s martyrdom was considered the fulfillment of a prophecy in the Book of Revelation.

43:29 – 6) Some Saints speculated that Christ would return (or other important events) would occur in 1890.

46:41 – 7) Early Latter-day Saints believed that Native Americans would play an essential role in preparing for the Second Coming of Christ.

49:33 – 8) Plague was a major theme in Latter-day Saint depictions of the apocalypse.

52:04 – 9) The Civil War prophecy was published in many newspapers across the United States in the 1850s.

55:25 – 10) Much to the consternation of Church leaders, many Latter-day Saints have claimed to be the One Mighty Strong, One Like Moses, or the Davidic Servant.

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The relationship between early Mormons and the United States was marked by anxiety and hostility, heightened over the course of the nineteenth century by the assassination of Mormon leaders, the Saints’ exile from Missouri and Illinois, the military occupation of the Utah territory, and the national crusade against those who practiced plural marriage. Nineteenth-century Latter-day Saints looked forward to apocalyptic events that would unseat corrupt governments across the globe, particularly the tyrannical government of the United States. The infamous “White Horse Prophecy” referred to this coming American apocalypse as “a terrible revolutionEL in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government.” Mormons envisioned divine deliverance by way of plagues, natural disasters, foreign invasions, American Indian raids, slave uprisings, or civil war unleashed on American cities and American people. For the Saints, these violent images promised a national rebirth that would vouchsafe the protections of the United States Constitution and end their oppression.