False prophecies of Joseph Smith

"Set forth your case, says the Lord; bring your proofs, says the King of Jacob. Let them bring them, and tell us what is to happen. Tell us the former things, what they are, that we may consider them, that we may know their outcome; or declare to us the things to come. Tell us what is to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods; do good, or do harm, that we may be dismayed and terrified. Behold, you are nothing, and your work is less than nothing; an abomination is he who chooses you." - Isaiah 41:21-24

Contents 1 False prophecies 2 External links 2.1 Non-Mormon 2.2 Mormon

[edit] False prophecies

"Jesus would have returned in 1891 (Documentary History of the Church (DHC) 2:182), The Civil War would have poured out upon all nations (D&C 87:1-3), the wicked of Smith's generation would have been "swept from off the face of the land" (DHC 1:315), and a temple would have been built in Independence Missouri by the generation living in 1832 (D&C 84:4,5)." [1]

• "Verily, thus saith the Lord: It is wisdom in my servant David W. Patten, that he settle up all his business as soon as he possibly can, and make a disposition of his merchandise, that he may perform a mission unto me next spring, in company with others, even twelve including himself, to testify of my name and bear glad tidings unto the world." (Doctrine & Covenants 114:1)
• "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)
• "While discussing the petition to Congress, I prophesied, by virtue of the holy Priesthood vested in me, and in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, that, if Congress will not hear our petition and grant us protection, they shall be broken up as a government, and God shall damn them, and there shall be nothing left of them — not even a grease spot." (Millennial Star, Vol. 22, p. 455. See also History of the Church (HC), vol. 6, p. 116)
• "And now I am prepared to say by the authority of Jesus Christ, that not many years shall pass away before the United States shall present such a scene of bloodshed as has not a parallel in the history of our nation; pestilence, hail, famine, and earthquake will sweep the wicked of this generation from off the face of the land, to open and prepare the way for the return of the lost tribes of Israel from the north country. The people of the Lord, those who have complied with the requirements of the new covenant, have already commenced gathering together to Zion, which is in the state of Missouri; therefore I declare unto you the warning which the Lord has commanded to declare unto this generation, remembering that the eyes of my Maker are upon me, and that to him I am accountable for every word I say, wishing nothing worse to my fellow-men than their eternal salvation; therefore, "Fear God, and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment is come." Repent ye, repent ye, and embrace the everlasting covenant and flee to Zion, before the overflowing scourge overtake you, for there are those now living upon the earth whose eyes shall not be closed in death until they see all these things, which I have spoken, fulfilled." (History of the Church, Vol. 1, pp. 315-316)
• Doctrine & Covenants Section 84
• Doctrine & Covenants Section 111
• "I have listened to him [i.e. Smith] with feelings of no ordinary kind, when he declared that the audible voice of God, instructed him to establish a banking-anti banking institution, who like Aaron's rod shall swallow up all other banks (the Bank of Monroe excepted,) and grow and flourish and spread from the rivers to the ends of the earth, and survive when all others should be laid in ruins." (Warren Parrish, Painesville Republican, February 22, 1838, as quoted in Conflict at Kirtland, page 297)

[edit] External links

[edit] Non-Mormon

• A Sample of Joseph Smith's False Prophecies (Jerald and Sandra Tanner)
• Prophcies (SmithBusters.com)
• Failed Prophecies of Joseph Smith (Institute for Religious Research)
• The False Prophecies of Joseph Smith Jr. (Contender Ministries)
• A Look at the Prophecies of Joseph Smith, by James Patrick Holding
• Prophecies of Joseph Smith (Wikipedia)
• David W. Patten: False Prophecy in the Doctrine and Covenants, by James K. Walker
• Joseph Smith's Prophecies of the Overthrow of the United States, by Christopher Smith

[edit] Mormon

• Failed Prophecies (FAIR)
• Didn't Joseph Smith deliver some prophecies that didn't come true?, by W. John Walsh, Michael T. Griffith, and Jeff Lindsay