My brother, Noah Packard, says that the heard the Prophet Joseph say that the next great (U.S. civil) war after the war of the rebellion (the Civil War of the 1860's between the North and the South) would commence in a little town now called Chicago but at that time it would have grown to be a very large city. And another brother told me that the Prophet said that the cause of the next great trouble of the United States would be the depreciation of the currency of the United States. I believe I have given you all the facts in as short and concise manner as possible.
(Source: A. Milton Musser papers, LDS Church Archives, letter from Nephi Packard to A. Milton Musser, July 24, 1896.)
From Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p.17: "....And now ai 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 a has not a parpllel 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 a way for the return of the lost tribes of Israel from the north country."
Bloodshed aplenty was had during the war of the rebellion, or Civil War. But pestilence, hail, famine, and earthquake enough to sweep the wicked from off the face of the land? And it does appear from other prophetic statements I have read that there is more bloodshed to come.
Nauvoo was the biggest city in Illinois, quite a bit bigger than Chicago, when Joseph made this prophecy. I think he also mentioned around this time that the two main political parties would be Democrats and Republicans (In his day it was Democrats and Whigs) and that they would be at war with each other.
Chicago (And other cities that have been under corrupt welfare state management for decades, such as Detroit) are in deep trouble at the moment. The unemployment is very high, crime is very high, and the people who pay the taxes to maintain it have either left already, or are leaving now.
That prophetic statement attributed to Joseph Smith by Mosiah Hancock about the democrat and republican parties going to war goes like this:
"There will be two great political parties in this country. One will be called the Republican, and the other the Democrat party. These two parties will go to war and out of these two parties will spring another party which will be the Independent American Party."There is an Independent American Party in some states, and I think in all cases itis affiliated with what is now the Constitution Party.
Yup, we're seeing prophecy come true in our days. The only question is, how close are we to the second coming? A day, a month, a year, a century?
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