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White Horse Prophecy

Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of Mormonism, was reported to have made an 1843 statement which became known as the White Horse Prophecy.

The White Horse Prophecy is an influential, disputed version of a statement on the future of the Latter Day Saint movement and the United States by movement founder Joseph Smith, Jr. in 1843. It was written down by one of Smith's adherents Edwin Rushton in an undated document, possibly ten years after.[1]: 175  One source from the LDS Church's largest university Brigham Young University believes the document was written after 1890.[2]: 75 

According to Rushton's retelling of the prophecy, members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) would "go to the Rocky Mountains and... be a great and mighty people," associated in the prophecy's figurative language, with one of the biblical four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the Book of Revelation. Rushton's record of Smith's original statement predicts that the US Constitution will one day "hang like a thread" but be saved by Latter-day Saints, "by the efforts of the White Horse."[2]: 85 

On the basis of either Rushton's version or Smith's original statement, some critics of Mormonism and some Mormon folklore doctrine enthusiasts hold that Mormons should expect that the US will eventually become a theocracy dominated by the LDS Church.[3][4] The idea that LDS members will at one or more times take action to save an imperiled US Constitution has been referenced by numerous Church leaders, but as to the Rushton version of the Prophecy, the Church has stated that "the so-called 'White Horse Prophecy'... is not embraced as Church doctrine".[5] Numerous denominations within Mormon fundamentalists continue to preach the doctrine.

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  2. ^ a b Don L. Penrod (2010). "Edwin Rushton as the Source of the White Horse Prophecy". BYU Studies. 49 (3).
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