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For a prophecy that is 130 years old, how well do you think Pratt did in making his?

If you read what Pratt said, you can find his prophecy fulfilled in many other nations who have been at war within themselves, one goverment toppling another. This prophecy is literally true for a few states in Africa today though he meant it for America.

The clue word he used was "mobocracy."

So again, you must remember the climate of the time he wrote this. Pratt was describing something that he felt could happen in the very very near future. It was not a prophecy, even if people ever took it as such. Even if it was a prophecy, the time of its possible fulfillment is long past.

Prophecys are usually vague. Can you think of any prophecies made by an individual from 100 years ago or more that made a specific prophecy of a time in America's future that today everyone actually agreed was totally correct in all parts and had came to pass?

Okay my turn for prophecy: "In the future...there will be....a fire - rockondon, 2008"

Is there an actual chance here that because Pratt was a Mormon that certain people in this thread are not willing to give this prophecy (definition as follows so this is a prophecy....1 a prediction.) any credit?

Note the war he describes begins from the opposite direction then the Civil war began. Also note he could not of been thinking of Mormons leading this rebellion that he said would become a war because few Mormons lived in the existing US states at that time. Most Mormons lived in the Utah Territory. So obviously he was describing an insurection leading to a war that would mostly include people who were not Mormons.

Elder Orson Pratt also described the anarchy that would sweep the nation:
"What then will be the condition of that people, when this great and terrible war shall come? It will be very different from the war between the North and the South. Do you wish me to describe it? I will do so. It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, county against county, state against state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed, [and manufacturing will, [in a great measure,] cease, for a time, among the American nation.]
Why? Because in these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture; there will be too much bloodshed, [too much mobocracy,] too much going forth in bands and destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation with any degree of safety.
[What will become of millions of the farmers upon that land? They will leave their farms] and they will flee before the ravaging armies from place to place; and thus will they go forth burning and pillaging the whole country; and that great and powerful nation, will be wasted away, unless they repent." (Journal of Discourses, Vol. 20:151, given on March 9, 1879.)

One more thing to consider of this warring within our nation he predicts, could this take place from home grown terrorists and or citizens getting tired of the goverment finally running all aspects of their lives and finally revolt?

Could the citizens of this country actually end up warring with our own police and military agencies?

Leaving many of those people in the police and military agencies not wanting to go and detain and or shoot family/friends/etc.? A decision that could actually weaken the police agencies and military from controlling the possible rebellion?

The point you leave out Paul is that Pratt knew what the Civil war was about and how's and who's started it. The point I made was that the way the Civil war began in the US is how most wars within a country begin. They begin from politics, sides are drawn and the war begins. Pratt knew that. But in his own future prophecy of the US he predicted another war would happen but would come from a different direction that it seldoms happens from.

Politicians disagreed, generals and their loyal soldiers went with their favored politicians and the political camps quickly became divided by colors, the grey and the blue.

The prophecy is so freaking vague it's meaningless.

Prophecies/predictions have always been vague when it deals with an obvious unknown time period because one was not mentioned.

Not a single person so far has been able to think of anything that has been happening in the last 60 years that might be remotely linked to a possible FUTURE out come as Pratt described it.

Most in this thread seem to have a limited amount of thinking capacity that allows them to only attack what Pratt said as vague and meaningless.

I am supposing that the true skeptics here really do not even wish to consider that we in our era in the US could be the possible reason that our present politics could cause future inner turmoil that could possibly bring the US to it's knees.

What I like of this prophecy is that 1. it was a prophecy(no matter how vague of a time period)dealing with America and how Pratt saw it happening over 100 years ago. I know of no other religious or non-religious type person who lived 0ver 100 years ago who took time to make a prophecy/prediction of a future time of America and it's second civil war.

So if a second war did begin at America's borders, that would be contrary to Pratts war prophecy because he stated the next war would begin within cities and spread outwards.

It is called "Gang terf wars." It is a real thing and as America grows in population, so do these gangs regardless of the laws passed to put them in jail.

The media/politicians have already color coded the states remember?

But, to all the true skeptics here, none of the above can be connected in any fashion or way to any parts of a 130 year old prophecy/prediction and what could end up happening in the future due to our present political war that is taking place.