Did Mormons prophesized that the South would win the civil war?

Question

In one of the public speech class I heard that the founder of Mormon Church had prophesied that the south was going to win the civil war, that the blacks would not be freed.
Do you have an idea?

Answer 1

Joseph Smith prophesied that the "war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place. For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain, as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations. And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war...the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an Almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations"

It was never "poured out upon all nations" and did not lead to "a full end of all nations." Also, slaves did not rise up in rebellion against their masters. In other words, a lot of this prophecy never in fact came to pass. And the part that did aparently come to pass, the starting of the Civil War in South Carolina, and the Southern States fighting the Northern States, was something that could easily have been discerned as early as 1832, as the political situation was indeed very volatile at that time in South Carolina. The war was certainly not "poured out upon all nations", and we still have nations in the 21st century, and had them after the Civil War too, so there was no "full end of all nations". Therefore the prophecy is false.

Answer 2

The prophet Joseph Smith prophesied on April 2, 1843 that the U.S. would fall into civil war, and where it would probably start. He did not however make any prophecies about the outcome. Jules quoted another section of the Doctrine and Covenants that referred to not just the civil war but other wars that would follow as well.

Answer 3

It is important to note that while the prophecy he wrote down did come true, it is not possible that he made it up. Joseph Smith died a year later on June 27, 1844, 16 years before the Civil War started! So people can't say that the War happened and then he went back and made up the revelation to pretend like it came from God. This is something I like to point out to people that straight out condemn Joseph Smith.

Answer 4

Wrong. He prophecied that there would be a war over slavery in this country. He never said the south would win. Joseph Smith was against slavery and was persecuted in Missouri because of his friendliness towards blacks. Missouri did not want Mormons bringing blacks to the edge of the frontier. They were scared Mormons would take over so they persecuted them severely and eventually issued an extermination order on them (Governor Lilburn Boggs).

Answer 5

It became into the two. The South initially enjoyed the extra suitable protection rigidity, quite with calvary, and lots extra suitable management. yet because of the fact the warfare went on, the North adapted and found out, whilst attrition wore down the Confederates. So the north beat the south militarily, partly with sheer numbers, yet additionally by applying matching the south in high quality of troops and management. The south lost the warfare for distinctive motives. a loss of a adequate army meant the Union blockade choked southern commerce. larger business ability meant the north ought to offer extra products and armaments, and grant them extra efficiently than the south ought to. the fewer centralized government of the Confederacy made it harder to coordinate, and made desertion extra handy interior the south than interior the north. The failure of Lee's invasion interior the north became into the South's final real danger to win foreign places attractiveness. And whilst Lee became into waiting to hold on interior the east, the western campaigns have been often a sequence of failures for the south. With the administration of the Mississippi in Union palms, the Confederacy became into decrease in a million/2, setting up Sheridan's march with the aid of Georgia.

Answer 6

Was it this one Made by JS May 6, 1843?

"I prophecy 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 for their wickedness in permitting the murder of men, women and children, and the wholesale plunder and extermination of thousands of her citizens to go unpunished" (History of the Church, Vol. 5, page 394).

Missouri is still around. Joseph isn't. One might argue that Mr Bush sort of fulfills this prophecy.

Answer 7

No, I don't believe he did. He did predict the start of the Civil War, but I hink that's about it.

Answer 8

It was probably just wishful thinking on his part.

Answer 9

no

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