Orson Hyde

Civil War Prophecy: Orson Hyde and the Prophecy of the Civil War — Part 1 and 2

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Traditional-style illustration depicting Orson Hyde, Joseph Smith, and Abraham Lincoln above scenes of the American Civil War, including battlefield combat, enslaved people gaining freedom, and displaced Latter-day Saints, symbolizing Joseph Smith’s Civil War prophecy and its 19th-Civil War Prophecy

Joseph Smith’s Civil War Prophecy and Its 19th-Century Setting In December 1832, Joseph Smith recorded a revelation later canonized as Doctrine and Covenants 87. The revelation declared that war would begin with the rebellion of South Carolina, that the Southern States would divide against the Northern States, that the conflict would lead to immense suffering, … Read more