EVERY NATION WILL AFFLICT THE SAINTS OF GOD

Well, this is from the guy whom Brigham Young called "the prophet to the Prophet", Heber C. Kimball:

Journal of Discourses, Vol. 5, p. 275, September 27, 1857.

"When the United States have done their best, then other nations will tackle us, and so things will go on, until every nation is brought into subjection to the kingdom of God.  Go and read it in the Bible.  I could not say anything else, if I should try."

Journal of Discourses, Vol. 6, p. 185, December 27, 1857.

"So it will be eventually in the United States.  After the truth is all gathered out, you will find that the rest will be destroyed.  I do not mean that the land will be destroyed, but I refer to the wicked inhabitants, and the earth will be emptied, according to the words of the Prophet.  Why will this be so?  Because there are no saving principles there: the saving principles are with this Church, and there is no salvation in the absence of those principles."