What were the many false prophecies made by Joseph Smith of the Mormon church???

Jesus said ';Beware of false prophets'; (Matthew 7:15) and the Apostle John warned that ';many false prophets are gone out into the world'; (1 John 4:1). How do we identify a false prophet? A key test is to examine the prophecies he or she has made in the name of the Lord. If a single one of those prophecies fail to come to pass, the speaker is identified as a false prophet and we are not to pay any attention to them (Deuteronomy 18:20-22).





David Whitmer - Recounts Joseph's failed prophesy regarding selling the copyright to the Book of Mormon in Canada. When Joseph was confronted with the failed prophecy, Joseph got a revelation through his seer stone that said, ';Some revelations are of God; some revelations are of man; and some revelations are of the devil.'; 鈥?Address to All Believers in Christ, p. 31 (1887)





Joseph Fielding Smith - Restrictions on blacks not getting the priesthood will not happen till the ';far distant future'; and ';on some other world.'; 鈥?Answers to Gospel Questions, vol. 2, p. 188 (1958) [Historical note: Ban on Blacks receiving Mormon priesthood was lifted in 1978 after intense social pressure from both within and without the Mormon church.]





Joseph Smith - A city shall be built, New Jerusalem [State of Missouri], in which a temple shall be reared in this generation 鈥?Doctrine and Covenants 84:3-5 (September 22 %26amp; 23, 1832)





Joseph Smith - City of Zion, Missouri shall ';become glorious, very great and very terrible,'; and ';Surely Zion is the city of our God, and surely Zion cannot fall, neither be moved out of her place...';. Doctrine and Covenants 97:18-20 (August 2, 1833)





Joseph Smith - Mormons will return to Zion, the only place God has appointed for the saints. [Zion is Independence, MO. The Mormons were driven out of Missouri in 1838. Doctrine and Covenants 101:16-21 (December 16, 1833)





Joseph Smith - Treasure, gold and silver, would be found in Salem, Massachusetts and would be theirs. Doctrine and Covenants 111:1-11 (August 6, 1836)





Joseph Smith - ';Verily thus saith the Lord ...'; David Patten to go on a mission the following spring (1839). 鈥?Doctrine and Covenants 114:1-2 (April 17, 1838). In fact, Patten died in battle, Oct. 25, 1838. 鈥?History of the Church, vol. 3, p. 171 (October 25, 1838)





Joseph Smith - Far West is to be a holy city and the location of the Lord's House. [No temple was ever built there.] Doctrine and Covenants 115:7-12 (April 26, 1838)





Joseph Smith - The name of Oliver Granger shall be had in sacred remembrance from generation to generation, forever and ever. Doctrine and Covenants 117:12-15 (July 8, 1838)





Joseph Smith - Revelation regarding John C. Bennett who is to help Joseph Smith, ';And for his love he shall be great'; Doctrine and Covenants 124:16-17 (January 19, 1841). Joseph did make Bennett Nauvoo's mayor, but unbeknownst to Joseph, Bennett had abandoned his wife and family in Indiana and was professing to be Nauvoo's most eligible bachelor (Joseph Smith the Mormon, p. 147-148). Joseph would later write of Bennett: ';It is evident that his general character is that of an adulterer of the worst kind. ... More than twenty months [since the Fall of 1840] ago Bennett went to a lady in the city and began to teach her that promiscuous intercourse between the sexes was lawful and no harm in it, and requested the privilege of gratifying his passions; ... and in order to finish the controversy, said and affirmed that I both taught and acted in the same manner. (History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 42)





John Whitmer - Prophecy about the Lord's return by Lyman Wight. 鈥? History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 176 (June 1831)





Joseph Smith - Prophecy by the authority of Jesus Christ of a soon to come time of bloodshed, pestilence, hail, famine and earthquake. 鈥?History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 315 (January 4, 1833)





Joseph Smith - Joseph's father's prophecy that Joseph would continue in the Priest's office until Christ comes. 鈥?History of the Church, vol. 1, p. 323 (January 23, 1833)





Joseph Smith - Made known to him in vision and by the Spirit that the coming of the Lord was nigh, 56 years should wind up the scene. 鈥?History of the Church, vol. 2, p. 182 (February 14, 1835)





Joseph Smith - ';I prophesy in the name of the Lord god of Israel, unless the United States redress the wrongs committed ... in a few years the government will be utterly overthrown and wasted, and there will not be so much as a potsherd left'; 鈥?History of the Church, vol. 5, p. 394 (May 18, 1843)





Joseph Smith - ';I prophesy in the name of the Lord God of Israel, anguish and wrath and tribulation and the withdrawing of the Spirit of God from the earth await this generation, until they are visited with utter desolation. ... I prophesy they never will have power to kill me till my work is accomplished, and I am ready to die.'; 鈥?History of the Church, vol. 6, p. 58 (October 15, 1843)





Brigham Young - A person of Jewish blood will always apostatize from the LDS faith. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 142 (December 12, 1854)





Brigham Young - Cain and his posterity will remain cursed and not receive the priesthood until all other children of Adam have had this privilege. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 2, p. 143 (December 12, 1854)





Brigham Young - Before 26 years go by LDS elders will be as much thought of as kings on their thrones. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 4, p. 40 (August 31, 1856)





Heber C. Kimball - ';Brigham Young will become President of the United States.'; 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 5, p. 219 (September 6, 1856)





Brigham Young - The mark of Cain is a flat nose and black skin. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 290 (October 9, 1859)





Brigham Young - The curse will remain on blacks so that they can never hold the Mormon priesthood until all other descendants of Adam have received the promises and enjoyed the blessings of the Priesthood. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 7, p. 291 (October 9, 1859)





Brigham Young - The present struggle (Civil War) will not free the descendants of Ham who are slaves. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 250 (October 6, 1863)





George Q. Cannon - A temple shall be reared in the Center Stake of Zion in the generation in which the the revelation was given. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 10, p. 344 (October 23, 1864), cf. D%26amp;C 84 prediction of temple to be built in Zion, Missouri.





Brigham Young, ';the only men who become Gods, even the Sons of God, are those who enter into polygamy.'; 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 11, p. 269 (August 19, 1866)





Orson Pratt - The Lord will return the Mormons to Zion in Jackson county Missouri. 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p. 138 (April 10, 1870)





Orson Pratt - ';God promised in the year 1832 that we should, before the generation then living had passed away, return and build up the City of Zion in Jackson County.'; 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 13, p. 362 (May 5, 1870)





Orson Pratt - ';God said in the year 1832 ...'; 鈥?Journal of Discourses, vol. 17, p. 111 (June 14, 1874)





Brigham Young - For Congress to demand relinquishment of polygamy is to ask for renunciation of entire faith. All talk of another revelation is childish babble. Mormonism is in its entirety revelation from God or nothing at all. Millennial Star, vol. 27, p. 675-676





Heber C. Kimball - Plurality of wives is a law established by God forever. It would be easier for the United States to build a tower to remove the sun as to remove polygamy. Millennial Star, vol. 28, p. 190





Brigham Young - ';as the Lord lives we will build up Jackson County in this generation'; 鈥?Times %26amp; Seasons, vol. 6, p. 956 (April 6, 1845)What were the many false prophecies made by Joseph Smith of the Mormon church???
There were none. Some say he falsely called that Christ would come. He is right, Christ will come again. This has been called for since the 12 apostles and the Prophets of the Old testament. I think they thought he would come back in just a few years, Just like Joseph Smith did. It didn't happen back then, and didn't happen in the 1800's either.





Many that have come true. The civil war was predicted and came true. The saints did go to the West and become a great people in the mountains. The Gospel has spread to many nations, kindred, tongues and people. He never thought the church as this local thing. He saw the church being a world wide church and it is.





Joseph Smith was not a racist. The reason why the church caught so much trouble in Missouri was because they were anti-slavery and Missouri wanted to be a slave state and 12,000 voting people moving in would turn the tide.





The first Church meeting held in Missouri, had Whites, indians, Blacks all present. All other churches were segregated until in the 1980's and some still are today.What were the many false prophecies made by Joseph Smith of the Mormon church???
Matthew 7:15 -20 ';Be on the watch for the false prophets that come to YOU in sheep鈥檚 covering, but inside they are ravenous wolves. 16聽By their fruits YOU will recognize them. Never do people gather grapes from thorns or figs from thistles, do they? 17聽Likewise every good tree produces fine fruit, but every rotten tree produces worthless fruit; 18聽a good tree cannot bear worthless fruit, neither can a rotten tree produce fine fruit. 19聽Every tree not producing fine fruit gets cut down and thrown into the fire. 20聽Really, then, by their fruits YOU will recognize those [men].


1 John 4:1 Beloved ones, do not believe every inspired expression, but test the inspired expressions to see whether they originate with God, because many false prophets have gone forth into the world.





2聽YOU gain the knowledge of the inspired expression from God by this: Every inspired expression that confesses Jesus Christ as having come in the flesh originates with God, 3聽but every inspired expression that does not confess Jesus does not originate with God. Furthermore, this is the antichrist鈥檚 [inspired expression] which YOU have heard was coming, and now it is already in the world.


Matthew 24:11 And many false prophets will arise and mislead many;


So like most religions today,they all prove to be false
do you mean the ones that haven't come to pass.......YET?








he prophesied (like a lot of prophets) of Jesus's second coming. that hasn't happened........yet........is jesus himself false because he said he was going to come again and he hasn't.......yet?











ed91856: that just says there will be false prophets. that proves nothing
A brief review of the History of the Church shows the Joseph Smith himself had no confidence in his own prophecies. After a failed trip to sell the copyrights to the Book of Mormon, he said some ';revelations'; might be of man or even of the devil. Hist 1:165





Here are a few others.





Sept 22-23, 1832. D%26amp;C 84:2-5, 31 Zion will be built with its temple at Independence, ';in this generation';. This generation shall not all pass away until the temple will be built upon the spot. Orson Pratt in 1870 reiterated the prophecy (JD 9:71, 10:344, 13:362) and insisted that it will come to pass within the generation living in 1832.





Dec 10, 1833. HC 1:455. Joseph Smith tells the saints that they should retain their lands in Missouri and seek legal redress against their enemies. If they should not obtain it, God will avenge them with ';ten thousand of his Saints'; and all their adversaries would be destroyed.





Dec 16, 1833. D%26amp;C 101:17-20 Zion (Missouri) shall not be moved out of its place; the Saints will receive their inheritance there, and there is no other place than Missouri appointed by God for the gathering of the Saints.





Feb 24, 1834. D%26amp;C 103:5-7 If the Saints will hearken to the counsel of the Lord, ';they shall, for I have decreed it, begin to prevail against mine enemies from this very hour... and... they shall never cease to prevail until the kingdoms of the world are subdued under my feet, and the earth is given unto the saints, to possess it forever and ever.'; Verse 15: ';The redemption of Zion must needs come by power;'; and God will raise up a man like Moses, namely Joseph Smith, who will enable them to ';possess the goodly land'; (v. 20). Joseph Smith is to organize Zion's Camp (a Mormon army) and relieve the distress of the Saints in Missouri. Verse 36: ';All victory and glory is brought to pass unto you through your diligence, faithfulness and prayers of faith.';





Spring 1834. Joseph Smith prophesies to the members of Zion's Camp that ';within three years they should march to Jackson County and there should not be a dog to open his mouth against them.'; Reed Peck Manuscript p. 3 [cited in Tanner, The Mormon Kingdom 1:4]





Feb 14, 1835. HC 2:182. Joseph Smith preached that the coming of the Lord would be in 56 years (i.e., about 1891). This prophecy also occurs in his diary for April 6, 1843 and HC 5:336. See also D%26amp;C 130:14-17. Joseph Smith prophesies that ';there of those of the rising generation who shall not taste death till Christ comes.'; He prophesies ';in the name of the Lord God - let it be written: that the Son of Man will not come in the heavens till I am 85 years old, 48 years hence or about 1890.'; (The official historians have deleted the last phrase, beginning with ';48 years'; from the church history, but it is contained in the original diary.) The version in D%26amp;C 130 is phrased negatively, i.e., Christ will not come before 1890. It is also made conditional on Joseph Smith living to the age of 85. Joseph Smith says (v 16) that it might merely mean that if he lives to 85 he will go where Christ is, and therefore see his face. But that interpretation would not make sense if the revelation is in response to Joseph Smith's inquiry about the time of the second coming (v 14).





Mormons love to cite the civil war prophecy as proof of Joseph's prophetic ability. He got the place and GB's help right, granted. Here's what he missed.


- The slaves did not rise up,


- War was not poured out upon all nations,


- There was no world- wide famine, plague, earthquake, etc., and


- There was no resulting ';end of all nations.';





Some contend that World War I, the associated famines, the 1918 influenza epidemic, fulfill this prophecy. But these are not as a result of the American Civil War. Not no one can claim that there were earthquakes because of it.





Apr 23, 1834. D%26amp;C 104. Revelation establishing a separate United Order in Missouri, to be ';everlasting'; (v 1), ';immutable and unchangeable'; (v 2), to benefit the church ';until I come'; (v 1). ';This is the way that I, the Lord, have decreed to provide for my saints...'; (v 16).





April 23, 1834. D%26amp;C 104: 78-83. God's promise to deliver the Saints from their debts. ';It is my will that you shall pay all your debts.'; The Lord will soften the hearts of their creditors. Didn't happen.





D%26amp;C 112. Revelation to Thomas B. Marsh, then the president of the quorum of the Twelve Apostles, prophesying that he would be ';exalted,'; that he would preach to Jews and Gentiles ';unto the ends of the earth,'; ';among the mountains, and among many nations.'; Marsh is told that ';by thy word many high ones shall be brought low, and .. many low ones shall be exalted.'; In verse 11 Marsh is told that ';I [God] know thy heart.'; He was excommunicated 2 years later.





April 17, 1838. D%26amp;C 114:1. Revelation concerning David W. Patten, an apostle, directing him to settle his business up so that he could go on a mission ';next spring...to testify of my name and bear glad tidings unto all the world.'; Less than eight months later Patten was dead, killed leading Mormons in the Battle of Crooked River on October 25, 1838. He never went on the mission as prophesied and not due to lack of faith.





And the list goes on. Any LDS person reading this can feel free to trust the LDS PR machine, but personally, I wouldn't.
ummmmmmm....the whole thing....
Here they are in a nutshell.





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