WHITEHORSE, TRASH AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF OTHER STUFF

I will go on record that I DO NOT have a testimony of Joseph F. Smith as a Prophet (with a capital P).  I can assure you, not a single person has ever heard me bear witness of him as efficacious in that role.  I am sure he was a good man - but not so sure about that role.

I agree with the following statement - except for the label of "trash":

This is why we don't believe the "White Horse Prophecy", because it is not true. 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 out it forth. It is simply false: that is all there is to it. (Joseph F. Smith, Conference Report, October 1918, p.58.)

I am quite certain it, as currently written, was never uttered in a cohesive, word for word fashion.  It however all most likely came from Joseph's mouth and the gist of it is not distorted.  To call it trash (to throw it ALL out without considering it's merits) is pure BULLSHIT!  Sorry - picturing a steaming pile of manure right here.  Right after that statement was made, a gleaming red light emerged from Russia and then China - that represents communism.  Also, in 1917 on the Jubilee year, the Turkish empire was broken into many pieces that created the mess we are in today (Iraq, Iran, Syria, Lebanon, etc) and that is black.  Look at the flags.  It fits perfectly with Deganawida's vision of the red, black and white snake and the George Washington Vision at Valley Forge that talked of the red and black forces overcoming America......  Sorry - the proof is clearly to the contrary, and I dismiss anyone who attempts to throw this thing completely out.  I also recognize that even the Lord's servants can make mistakes - sometimes, colossal mistakes.  But - they can STILL remain the Lord's servants.  I do not go around "popishly" declaring that those who lead this last dispensation are infallible.  Not even close.  God still allows all men their agency - and if they were perfect they would have healed 100% of the people they laid hands upon, been able to walk on water, see perfectly into the future, etc etc.  Did any of the above happen?  Nope!

Heck, when Joseph Smith allowed the 116 pages of manuscript to slip through his hands, I did not fault him.  I have made so many mistakes along the road in my life, that doing so would be ludicrous and hypocritical of me.  Yet, I hold him as one of the best mortals to grace this planet and I do not even begin to hold a candle to him.  On the flip side, there was a lot of stuff that happened shortly after 1890 that I am not proud of in Church history - where much was thrown under the proverbial bus by Church leaders.  I am not sure if it was peer pressure (the membership was moving away from such "banal" practices, etc), so the leadership threw those prior to themselves under the bus, or what was going on.  Suddenly, the gifts of prophecy, healing, talking in tongues, seeking the second comforter, etc simply became a thing of the past in our culture.  This shift makes me suspicious of the people and/or the leadership at that point.  That is where the shift came that caused people like John Koyle to get thrown under the bus for exercising his gift.  And oddly, just as with all we see coming about just as written, with the Whitehorse prophecy, much of what Koyle predicted is now here and we are in a mess.  The second (really big) depression is just about to break forth - just as predicted and we are in the middle of the biggest dry spell in 400 years in the SW, just as predicted - but stupid and blind people will STILL throw Koyle under the bus.

At the time that Koyle was being thrown under the bus, we had the guy who was sent down to shut him down, write an essay basically embracing evolution (full-on Darwinism) and begin the slide from Godly belief and faith to secular humanism.  And we know where that has gone....  If I were to put the two side by side, I would take Koyle any day, over a "pre-eminent" "scientist".  The same people who probably lobbied to have hymn 323 picked out of the hymn book of the day because it was a little too salacious for their tastes.   I will go with anyone of faith over the intellectuals of the day, any time of the day under any circumstances.  Thankfully, we had leadership like David O. McKay and Spencer W. Kimball and ETB who acted in their prophetic roles - in the manner of those who I read about in the scriptures.  People who would rather take a rock to the head for having said what needs to be said, rather than try to suck up to the latest worldly trend.

We still have Isaiah 4:1 about ready to bust on the scene (when war utterly decimates the male population) and people like Mitt Romney and other idiots will STILL say that plural marriage was sick and twisted - throwing Joseph, Brigham and Jesus - not to mention Abraham and others under the bus along with the best being to grace this planet.  How arrogant can one get??  And this, in the face of impending massive calamity.  I just shake my head here as I type.  What are they going to do, lobby SLC with a few millions to see if Section 132 can be struck from the scrips?  NO THANKS.  I really struggle when I see this kind of stuff happening.

So forgive me.  I am a rabid conservative - and do NOT like change when I know that something is bedrock.  Marriage between men and women - REALLY bedrock to me.  NO chance or possibility for debate there.  When people attempt to throw Joseph Smith under the bus - when I know the "language" of the man because I have read just about anything I can get my hands on that was written in the first person - I get a little hot under the collar.  And I just say to myself - these chumps that dismiss this stuff are in for quite the ride.

Rant off - over and out.