The following prophecies are from historical sources that I have personally verified. Thus, they can be considered legitimate Mormon Prophecies as opposed to those attributed to Mormon Leaders by others. I think you will find them to be quite interesting.
As I have already stated, an accurate understanding of the past and present can be predictive of what will come in the future..
(1) "A terrible revolution will take place in the land of America, such as has never been seen before; for the land will be literally left without a supreme government, and every species of wickedness will run rampant....The most terrible scenes of murder and bloodshed and rapine that have ever been looked upon will take place" (Joseph Smith).
Joseph Smith also saw mother against daughter, father against son, neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city and State against state. This prophecy was given in the 1840s.
(2) "I have seen the end of this nation and it is terrible...I will tell you in the name of the Lord that a secret band will sap the life of this nation" (Moses Thatcher).
Hmm., a secret band? This prophecy was also from the 1800's.
(3) "‘What! This great and powerful nation of ours to be divided one part against the other and many hundreds of thousands of souls to be destroyed by civil wars!' Not a word of it would they believe. They do not believe what is still in the future...The time will come when there will be no safety in carrying on the peaceable pursuits of farming or agriculture. But these will be neglected, and the people will think themselves well off if they can flee from city to city, from town to town and escape with their lives. Thus will the Lord visit the people, if they will not repent" (Orson Pratt).
Orson Pratt was a contemporary of Joseph Smith. This prophecy was given after the Civil War (late 1800s)
(4) "...what about the American nation. [The past Civil War] was nothing, compared to that which will eventually devastate [America]. ...Do you wish me to describe it? I will do so. It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, town against town, county against county, state against state, and they will go forth, destroying and being destroyed and manufacturing will, in a great measure, cease, for a time among the American nation. Why? Because in these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture, there will be too much bloodshed, too much mobocracy, too much going forth in bands and destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation with any degree of safety. What will become of millions of the farmers upon [this land]? They will leave their farms and they will remain uncultivated, and they will flee before the ravaging armies from place to place; and thus will they go forth burning and pillaging the whole country; and that great and powerful nation...will be wasted away, unless they repent. (Orson Pratt).
Brigham Young was no less emphatic in his certainty of the future calamities that will fall upon our nation:
(5) "...and the Lord [said] I will now preach my own sermons to the nations of the earth, all you now know can scarcely be called a preface to the sermon that will be preached with fire and sword, tempests, earthquakes, hail, rain, thunders and lightening, and fearful destruction...You will hear of magnificent cities, now idolized by the people, sinking in the earth, entombing the inhabitants. The sea will heave itself beyond its bounds, engulfing mighty cities. Famine will spread over the nations, and nation will rise up against nation, kingdom against kingdom, and states against states, in our own country and in foreign lands; and they will destroy each other, caring not for the blood and lives of their neighbors, of their families, or for their own lives" (Brigham Young).
This was more than just a belief:
(6) "...with judgments that are terribly severe that will cause them to lie by hundreds and thousands unburied from one end of the land to the other, to be meat for the fowls of the air and the beasts of the earth. Why? Because the judgments will be swift, giving no time for burial.
"Inquires one: ‘Do you really believe that such judgments are coming upon our nation [America}?'
"I do not merely believe, but I know it" (Orson Pratt).
More recently (1980s) Ezra Taft Benson gave the following:
"I testify that America is a choice land. God raised up the founding fathers of the United States of America and established the inspired Constitution...
"I testify that wickedness is rapidly expanding in every segment of our society. It is more highly organized, more cleverly disguised, and more powerfully promoted than ever before. Secret combinations lusting for power, gain, and glory are flourishing. A secret combination that seeks to overthrow the freedom of all lands, nations, and countries is increasing its evil influence and control over America and the entire world.
"I testify that as the forces of evil increase under lucifer's leadership and as the forces of good increase under the leadership of Jesus Christ, there will be growing battles between the two until the final confrontation. As the issues become clearer and more obvious, all mankind will eventually be required to align themselves either for the kingdom of God or for the kingdom of the devil. As these conflicts rage, either secretly or openly, the righteous will be tested. God's wrath will soon shake the nations of the earth and will be poured out on the wicked without measure...
"I testify that not many years hence the earth will be cleansed...God will give rewards to each according to the deeds done in the flesh" (Ezra Taft Benson).
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