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What is the Mormon prophecy about Joseph Smith becoming president of the US?

I read it on Answers awhile back - it was something about Joseph Smith becoming president and all these other Mormons would be in other positions in the government.

BQ: Do you think this prophecy is scary in light of Mitt Romney possibly running for president again?

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1. i dont think it is true...THEY KNOW WE WILL MARRY JESUS AFTER RAPTURE..

2. Do you mean the White Horse Prophecy where the constitution hangs by a thread and Mormons rescue it?

That doesn't really line up with their history of trying to form a theocracy in Utah. They aren't that much committed to freedom and justice, only to power.

Smith made a lot of prophecies, most of them never happened, the rest might have been coincidence and obvious.

I'm sure Glenn Beck and the Mittster are both salivating to be the 'chosen' one.

I hope America has better sense.

3. To the other guy, all of Joseph Smith's prophecies have come true.

4. I haven't heard of such a prophecy. Was it given before or after his prophecy of the Civil War? Was it given before or after his prophecy of the Saints going to the Rocky Mountains? Was it given before of after his prophecy of his own death?

5. I'm not aware of any prophecy about Joseph Smith becoming President. I believe he was told, through revelation, to run for presidency, but God never said he'd win.

And why would it be scary if a Mormon were President?

6. Dear Ich hab Dich lieb,
I've been studying "Mormonism" for a LONG time, and am not aware of any prophecy about Joseph Smith becoming president of the United States. About the closest I can think of is the so-called "White horse prophesy", which deals with government.That one says members of my faith will SAVE the constitution, which sounds like a good thing to me.

However, Joseph Smith's nephew, Joseph F. Smith, said this about that prophesy:

"The ridiculous story about the `red horse,' and `the black horse,' and `the white horse,' and a lot of trash that has been circulated about, and printed, and sent around as a great revelation given by the Prophet Joseph Smith, is a matter that was gotten up, I understand, some ten years after the death of the Prophet Joseph Smith, by two of our brethren, who put together some broken sentences from the Prophet that they may have heard him utter from time to time, and formulated this so-called revelation out of it, and it was never spoken by the Prophet in the manner in which they have put it forth. It is simply false; that is all there is to it."