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Friday, August 16, 2024

For My LDS Readers: Will A President Harris Cause World War III?

The video below relates a prophecy allegedly related by George Albert Smith circa 1946, about the start of World War III and its aftermath. The author acknowledges that the providence of the prophecy is somewhat questionable: while there are Church sources that reference the prophecy, he writes in the description, it has never been released by the Church. In fact, it apparently was only shared privately with a small number of people, and it appears that the author's sources are recollections of what was said rather than transcriptions of Smith's words. I would also note that I have not come across references to this prophecy before. And, as one of the commenters points out, the prophecy (if that is what it was) was apparently only relayed by Smith to a single family and not intended for the Church as a whole. So my impression is that although Smith had a vision or dream, he either was told to not widely reveal it or had doubts as to whether it was a genuine prophecy. 

    It is notable that Smith had used the term "millions shall die like flies" at least one other time: in the 1950 Conference Report, p. 169. His comments about missile silos and nuclear tipped IRBMs and ICBMs seems prescient; but Germany had developed and widely used the V2 which was an IRBM, so perhaps it was just a good interpolation from known facts. 

    Assuming the prophecy is authentic, there is another interesting point. The recollection indicates that the U.S. president at the time of the nuclear war will be a man of a different extraction--i.e., not of British or northern European extraction. My initial thought was Obama was the first president "of a different extraction" because he was half-black; and obviously we didn't have a nuclear war under his watch. But Obama's mother, Ann Dunham,  "was of predominantly English ancestry, with small amounts of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German and Swiss-German" according to Wikipedia, so perhaps that was enough to disqualify him.

    Harris, if she is elected or otherwise becomes president, would be a different matter: her mother was Shyamala Gopalan, a biologist from India that arrived in the United States in 1958. Her father was Donald Jasper Harris, an Afro-Jamaican (i.e., Jamaicans of predominantly African descent). And even her Irish slave owning ancestor was Irish: i.e., not of English or northern European extraction. 

    But even considering all the foregoing, you might find the account interesting:

VIDEO: "George Albert Smith's Vision of World War III - Church of Jesus Christ"
The Words of Christ (14 min.)

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