Hilariously, Deseret News and Mo commenters are mocking Warren Jeffs for making apocalyptic and crazy prophecies about disaster in the US. Of course, they fail to mention Mormonism's own long history of failed apocalypses.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/70...
Joseph Smith - Prophecy by the authority of Jesus Christ of a soon to come time of bloodshed, pestilence, hail, famine and earthquake. – History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 315 (January 4, 1833)
Joseph Smith - Made known to him in vision and by the Spirit that the coming of the Lord was nigh, 56 years should wind up the scene. – History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 182 (February 14, 1835)
Joseph Smith - "I prophesy in the name of the Lord god of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed ... in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left" – History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 394 (May 18, 1843)
John Taylor - Prophetic dream that the US would become something along the lines of "I Am Legend" Zombie apocalypse within 20 years. (Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, June 15, 1878, “A Vision, Salt Lake City, Night of Dec 16, 1877?) Read it in full here: http://www.latterdayconservative.com/...
Wilford Woodruff and Brigham Young's prophecies that New York City would be destroyed by earthquake, Boston by flood, and Albany (Albany of all cities? Doesn't God set his sights on cities that matter?) by fire. There are multiple sources for this revelation at http://www.fullnessoftimes.com/prophe...
As you can see, Mormonism has its own embarassing history of apocalyptic and silly prophecies. Deseret News is hypocritically pillorying Jeffs for keeping the prophet's legacies alive.
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