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Click here for more information." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/19px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png" decoding="async" width="19" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/29px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/94/Symbol_support_vote.svg/39px-Symbol_support_vote.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="180" data-file-height="185" /></a></span></div></div> </div> <div id="siteSub" class="noprint">From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia</div> </div> <div id="contentSub"><div id="mw-content-subtitle"></div></div> <div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="shortdescription nomobile noexcerpt noprint searchaux" style="display:none">Possible prophetic statement made by Mormonism founder Joseph Smith</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Joseph_Smith,_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg/170px-Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="228" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg/255px-Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/86/Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg/340px-Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr._portrait_owned_by_Joseph_Smith_III.jpg 2x" data-file-width="747" data-file-height="1000" /></a><figcaption>Joseph Smith, Jr., first leader of the Latter-day Saints (Mormons), made an 1843 statement, an apparently-embellished version of which, in around 1900, would become known as the White Horse Prophecy.</figcaption></figure> <p>The <b>White Horse Prophecy</b> is the popular name of an influential but disputed version of a statement on the future of the <a href="/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="Latter Day Saint movement">Latter Day Saints</a> (popularly called <a href="/wiki/Mormons" title="Mormons">Mormons</a>) and the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a>. It was given by Edwin Rushton in about 1900, and supposedly made in 1843 by <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Smith, Jr.">Joseph Smith, Jr.</a>, the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_movement" title="Latter Day Saint movement">Latter Day Saint movement</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Latter-day Saints, according to Rushton's version, would "go to the <a href="/wiki/Rocky_Mountains" title="Rocky Mountains">Rocky Mountains</a> and... be a great and mighty people," associated in the prophecy's figurative language, with one of the biblical <a href="/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Apocalypse" title="Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse">four Horsemen of the Apocalypse</a> in the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation">Book of Revelation</a>. </p><p>Smith's supposed original statement predicts that the <a href="/wiki/US_Constitution" class="mw-redirect" title="US Constitution">US Constitution</a> will one day "hang like a thread" but be saved by Latter-day Saints. The embellished version portrays it to be "by the efforts of the White Horse."<sup id="cite_ref-White_Horse_FAIR_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White_Horse_FAIR-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On the basis of either Rushton's version or Smith's original statement, some critics of Mormonism and some Mormon folk doctrine enthusiasts hold that Mormons should expect that the US will eventually become a <a href="/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy">theocracy</a> dominated by <a href="/wiki/The_Church_of_Jesus_Christ_of_Latter-day_Saints" title="The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints">the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Under_Gods_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Under_Gods-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-An_American_president_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-An_American_president-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The idea that members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 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; while numerous <a href="/wiki/Mormon_fundamentalists" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon fundamentalists">Mormon fundamentalists</a> continue to preach the doctrine."<sup id="cite_ref-LDS_Disclaimer_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LDS_Disclaimer-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Background">Background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg/220px-Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="103" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg/330px-Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/09/Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg/440px-Benjamin_West_-_Death_on_the_Pale_Horse_-_79.33_-_Detroit_Institute_of_Arts.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="940" /></a><figcaption><i>Death on a Pale Horse</i> by the artist <a href="/wiki/Benjamin_West" title="Benjamin West">Benjamin West</a>. Joseph Smith, June 15, 1844: "[the steamboat] Maid of Iowa come down the river about 2 or 3 o'clock While I was examining Benj Wests painting of Death on the Pale Horse which has been exhibiting in my reading room for 3 days."<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Latter_Day_Saint_Church" class="mw-redirect" title="Latter Day Saint Church">Latter-day Saint Church</a> founder <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Smith,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Joseph Smith, Jr.">Joseph Smith</a> went to <a href="/wiki/Washington,_DC" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington, DC">Washington, DC</a>, in November 1839 in an unsuccessful attempt to obtain help for his persecuted followers.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Pat_Bagley" title="Pat Bagley">Pat Bagley</a> of the <i><a href="/wiki/Salt_Lake_Tribune" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt Lake Tribune">Salt Lake Tribune</a></i> wrote that from then on, Smith and his followers "considered themselves the last Real Americans" and "the legitimate heirs of the <a href="/wiki/Pilgrim_(Plymouth_Colony)" class="mw-redirect" title="Pilgrim (Plymouth Colony)">pilgrims</a> and <a href="/wiki/Founding_Fathers_of_the_United_States" title="Founding Fathers of the United States">Founding Fathers</a>," who would be called upon one day to save the US Constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-I_Have_a_Question_1976_Stewart_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-I_Have_a_Question_1976_Stewart-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Smith is believed to have said in 1840 that when the Constitution hung by a thread, Latter Day Saint <a href="/wiki/Elder_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Elder (Latter Day Saints)">elders</a> would step in "on the <a href="/wiki/White_horse_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="White horse (mythology)">white horse</a>" to save the country.<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Joseph Smith is said to have made his statement in early May 1843, while the Latter-day Saints were headquartered in <a href="/wiki/Nauvoo,_Illinois" title="Nauvoo, Illinois">Nauvoo, Illinois</a>. One of Smith's associates who heard the statement was Edwin Rushton. The most complete copy of Rushton's version of Joseph Smith's statement is contained in a 1902 diary entry made by John Roberts of <a href="/wiki/Paradise,_Utah" title="Paradise, Utah">Paradise, Utah</a>. That rendering asserted that in his statement, Smith had prophesied that the Mormons "will go to the Rocky Mountains and will be a great and mighty people established there, which I will call the White Horse of peace and safety." Smith added "I shall never go there" and predicted continued persecution by enemies of the church, and he reportedly said, "You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber.... I love the Constitution; it was made by the inspiration of God; and it will be preserved and saved by the efforts of the White Horse, and by the Red Horse<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who will combine in its defense." According to the diary, Smith also said that Mormons would send missionaries to "gather the honest in heart from among the Pale Horse, or people of the United States, to stand by the Constitution of the United States as it was given by the inspiration of God." The account quotes Smith as predicting numerous wars involving Great Britain, France, Russia, China, and other countries, and saying that the European nobility "knows that [Mormonism] is true, but it has not pomp enough, and grandeur and influence for them to yet embrace it." He is also reported to have said that a <a href="/wiki/Temple_lot" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple lot">temple</a> that the Latter-day Saints had planned to build in <a href="/wiki/Jackson_County,_Missouri" title="Jackson County, Missouri">Jackson County, Missouri</a> "will be built in this generation."<sup id="cite_ref-White_Horse_FAIR_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White_Horse_FAIR-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Anderson_Prophetic_Years_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Anderson_Prophetic_Years-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:EdwinRushton.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/EdwinRushton.jpg/170px-EdwinRushton.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/EdwinRushton.jpg/255px-EdwinRushton.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4f/EdwinRushton.jpg/340px-EdwinRushton.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1174" data-file-height="1900" /></a><figcaption>Edwin Rushton, half a century after Joseph Smith's death, described what would become known as the White Horse Prophecy.</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1844, Smith rejected the platforms of the major candidates for <a href="/wiki/President_of_the_United_States" title="President of the United States">president of the United States</a> and decided to conduct his own third-party <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Smith_1844_presidential_campaign" title="Joseph Smith 1844 presidential campaign">campaign</a><sup id="cite_ref-An_American_president_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-An_American_president-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was cut short by his <a href="/wiki/Death_of_Joseph_Smith,_Jr." class="mw-redirect" title="Death of Joseph Smith, Jr.">murder</a> on June 27 that year. After a <a href="/wiki/Succession_crisis_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Succession crisis (Latter Day Saints)">succession crisis</a> in which <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young" title="Brigham Young">Brigham Young</a> was accepted as Smith's successor by the majority of the Latter-day Saints, the <a href="/wiki/Mormon_migration" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon migration">Mormon migration</a> to the <a href="/wiki/Intermountain_West" title="Intermountain West">Intermountain West</a> began, under Young's direction, in February 1846.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Disputed_authenticity">Disputed authenticity</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Disputed authenticity"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The authenticity of the White Horse Prophecy is much disputed. Most of its symbolistic content was not attested to during Smith's lifetime but was instead asserted by Rushton many years after Smith's death.<sup id="cite_ref-White_Horse_FAIR_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White_Horse_FAIR-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Whereas a philosophical kernel in Rushton's version is confirmed by contemporary Church leaders as having been taught by Smith, Rushton's formulation, as a whole, has often been repudiated by the Church over the years since as early as 1918.<sup id="cite_ref-penrod_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-penrod-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An analysis of the White Horse Prophesy was included, along with mentions of its questioned authenticity, as an appendix within <i>Prophecy: Key to the Future,</i> by <a href="/wiki/LDS_canon" class="mw-redirect" title="LDS canon">scriptural</a> scholar and <a href="/wiki/Lay_theologian" title="Lay theologian">lay theologian</a> Duane Crowther in 1962;<sup id="cite_ref-Crowther_Prophecy_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Crowther_Prophecy-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and, more recently, the Prophecy has been referenced in the writings of speculative theology by the <a href="/wiki/Mormon_fundamentalist" class="mw-redirect" title="Mormon fundamentalist">Mormon fundamentalist</a> <a href="/wiki/Ogden_Kraut" title="Ogden Kraut">Ogden Kraut</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Kraut_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Kraut-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1918, <a href="/wiki/Joseph_F._Smith" title="Joseph F. Smith">Joseph F. Smith</a>, president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, dismissed the White Horse Prophecy as a "ridiculous story... and a lot of trash that has been circulated about... by two of our brethren who put together some broken sentences from [Joseph Smith] that they may have heard from time to time."<sup id="cite_ref-FAIR_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FAIR-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In his 1966 book <i><a href="/wiki/Mormon_Doctrine_(book)" title="Mormon Doctrine (book)">Mormon Doctrine</a></i>, Latter-day Saint theologian (and later <a href="/wiki/Apostle_(Latter_Day_Saints)" title="Apostle (Latter Day Saints)">apostle</a>) <a href="/wiki/Bruce_R._McConkie" title="Bruce R. McConkie">Bruce R. McConkie</a> wrote, "From time to time, accounts of various supposed visions, revelations, and prophecies are spread forth by and among the Latter-day Saints, who should know better than to believe or spread such false information. One of these false and deceptive documents that has cropped up again and again for over a century is the so-called White Horse Prophecy."<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 2010, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement stating that "the so-called 'White Horse Prophecy' is based on accounts that have not been substantiated by historical research and is not embraced as Church doctrine."<sup id="cite_ref-LDS_Disclaimer_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-LDS_Disclaimer-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Also in 2010, Latter-day Saint historian Don L. Penrod examined significant differences in two early handwritten accounts of the prophecy, noted some words and phrases that were not characteristic of Joseph Smith's speaking style or current in his time, and speculated that Rushton had "in his elderly years recorded some things that [Smith] actually said, mixing in words of his own creation." It additionally noted that "memories of words and events, especially many years later, are often faulty."<sup id="cite_ref-penrod_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-penrod-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Similar_statements">Similar statements</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Similar statements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Several sources attribute to Smith the idea that the US Constitution would one day hang by a thread, and Church leaders have issued similar warnings about the Constitution.<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-White_Horse_White_House_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White_Horse_White_House-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brigham_Young">Brigham Young</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Brigham Young"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg/170px-Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="255" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg/255px-Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/20/Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg/340px-Brigham_Young_by_Charles_William_Carter.jpg 2x" data-file-width="556" data-file-height="833" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young" title="Brigham Young">Brigham Young</a>, who assumed the leadership of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints after the death of Joseph Smith</figcaption></figure> <p>In 1855, <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young" title="Brigham Young">Brigham Young</a> reportedly<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (July 2024)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup> wrote that "when the Constitution of the United States hangs, as it were, upon a single thread, they will have to call for the 'Mormon' Elders to save it from utter destruction; and they will step forth and do it."<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JD_2_182_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JD_2_182-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Orson_Hyde">Orson Hyde</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Orson Hyde"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1858, <a href="/wiki/Orson_Hyde" title="Orson Hyde">Orson Hyde</a>, another contemporary of Smith, wrote that Smith believed "the time would come when the Constitution and the country would be in danger of an overthrow; and... if the Constitution be saved at all, it will be by the elders of Church."<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JD_6_152_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JD_6_152-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charles_W._Nibley">Charles W. Nibley</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Charles W. Nibley"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1922, the Church's fifth <a href="/wiki/Presiding_bishop_(LDS_Church)" class="mw-redirect" title="Presiding bishop (LDS Church)">presiding bishop</a>, <a href="/wiki/Charles_W._Nibley" title="Charles W. Nibley">Charles W. Nibley</a>, stated that "the day would come when there would be so much of disorder, of secret combinations taking the law into their own hands, tramping upon Constitutional rights and the liberties of the people, that the Constitution would hang as by a thread. Yes, but it will still hang, and there will be enough of good people, many who may not belong to our Church at all, people who have respect for law and for order, and for Constitutional rights, who will rally around with us and save the Constitution."<sup id="cite_ref-Tears_Milbank_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tears_Milbank-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Melvin_J._Ballard">Melvin J. Ballard</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Melvin J. Ballard"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1928, the <a href="/wiki/Quorum_of_the_Twelve_Apostles_(LDS_Church)" title="Quorum of the Twelve Apostles (LDS Church)">apostle</a> <a href="/wiki/Melvin_J._Ballard" title="Melvin J. Ballard">Melvin J. Ballard</a> of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints remarked that "the prophet Joseph Smith said the time will come when, through secret organizations taking the law into their own hands... the Constitution of the United States would be so torn and rent asunder, and life and property and peace and security would be held of so little value, that the Constitution would, as it were, hang by a thread. This Constitution will be preserved, but it will be preserved very largely in consequence of what the Lord has revealed and what [the Mormons], through listening to the Lord and being obedient, will help to bring about, to stabilize and give permanency and effect to the Constitution itself. That also is our mission."<sup id="cite_ref-Tears_Milbank_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Tears_Milbank-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Joseph_L._Wirthlin">Joseph L. Wirthlin</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Joseph L. Wirthlin"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1938 <a href="/wiki/Joseph_L._Wirthlin" title="Joseph L. Wirthlin">Joseph L. Wirthlin</a> second counselor in the Church's <a href="/wiki/Presiding_Bishopric" class="mw-redirect" title="Presiding Bishopric">Presiding Bishopric</a> in the October 1938 <a href="/wiki/General_Conference_(LDS_Church)" title="General Conference (LDS Church)">General Conference</a> quoted <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young" title="Brigham Young">Brigham Young</a>, and then says, "We see from this prophecy, uttered by a prophet of God that there will yet devolve upon the Priesthood of this Church the responsibility of protecting the rights and the Constitution of our great country."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Then again in general conference in 1941 he says, "If our rights expire in a convulsion, the body politic now being slowly drugged by the opiate of a borrowed prosperity, will suffer a major financial operation, which will cause the death of the world's greatest democracy; and the vultures and the buzzards of some foreign "ism" will be waiting the moment to step in and devour the carcass" and then refers to the Brigham Young prophecy.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="J._Reuben_Clark">J. Reuben Clark</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: J. Reuben Clark"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1942, <a href="/wiki/J._Reuben_Clark" title="J. Reuben Clark">J. Reuben Clark</a>, an apostle and a member of the church's <a href="/wiki/First_Presidency_(LDS_Church)" title="First Presidency (LDS Church)">First Presidency</a>, said that "You and I have heard all our lives that the time may come when the Constitution may hang by a thread.... I do know that whether it shall live or die is now in the balance." On the Constitution, Clark went on to cite its "free institutions," <a href="/wiki/Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution" title="Separation of powers under the United States Constitution">separation of powers</a>, and the <a href="/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill of Rights (United States)">Bill of Rights</a>. He added that "if we are to live as a Church, and progress, and have the right to worship... we must have the great guarantees that are set up by our Constitution."<sup id="cite_ref-Clark_1942_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Clark_1942-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Ezra_Taft_Benson">Ezra Taft Benson</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Ezra Taft Benson"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In a 1986 <a href="/wiki/Brigham_Young_University" title="Brigham Young University">Brigham Young University</a> speech, <a href="/wiki/Ezra_Taft_Benson" title="Ezra Taft Benson">Ezra Taft Benson</a>, then president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stated, "I have faith that the Constitution will be saved as prophesied by Joseph Smith. But it will not be saved in Washington. It will be saved by the citizens of this nation who love and cherish freedom. It will be saved by enlightened members of this Church – men and women who will subscribe to and abide by the principles of the Constitution."<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dallin_H._Oaks">Dallin H. Oaks</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Dallin H. Oaks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 2010, Elder <a href="/wiki/Dallin_H._Oaks" title="Dallin H. Oaks">Dallin H. Oaks</a> spoke at a <a href="/wiki/Constitution_Day_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution Day (United States)">Constitution Day</a> celebration and warned about the importance of preserving the US Constitution. To that end, he claimed that "all citizens—whatever their religious or philosophical persuasion" should maintain several responsibilities regarding the Constitution: understand it, support the law, practice civic virtue, maintain civility in political discourse, and promote patriotism.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Interpretation">Interpretation</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Interpretation"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Questions on Latter-day Saint attitudes towards the United States government, whether they are considered on their own or as parts of the White Horse Prophecy, have arisen from time to time as prominent church members have become involved in American politics. The White Horse Prophecy has been characterized as "effectively plac[ing] believers on perpetual Red Alert for the Constitution's possible demise"<sup id="cite_ref-Latterday_Taint_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Latterday_Taint-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and as admonishing Mormons to "come to the rescue and restore the true Constitution by any means necessary."<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Writers such as <a href="/wiki/Richard_Abanes" title="Richard Abanes">Richard Abanes</a> and Elaine Wolff have speculated, on the basis of the prophecy, that Mormons expect that the US will eventually become a "Mormon-ruled theocracy divinely ordained to 'not only direct the political affairs of the Mormon community, but eventually those of the United States and ultimately the world'"<sup id="cite_ref-Under_Gods_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Under_Gods-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and that "a Mormon, if he were elected president, would take his orders from Salt Lake City."<sup id="cite_ref-An_American_president_4-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-An_American_president-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Besides many members of the <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican Party</a>, some <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a> church members have also been inspired to run for office by the White Horse Prophecy.<sup id="cite_ref-White_Horse_White_House_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-White_Horse_White_House-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Romney_family">Romney family</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Romney family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1967, US presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/George_W._Romney" title="George W. Romney">George W. Romney</a> said the following on the White Horse Prophecy: "I have always felt that they meant that sometime the question of whether we are going to proceed on the basis of the Constitution would arise and at this point government leaders who were Mormons would be involved in answering that question."<sup id="cite_ref-Romney_Trib_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Romney_Trib-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 2007, US presidential candidate <a href="/wiki/Mitt_Romney" title="Mitt Romney">Mitt Romney</a>, George's son, told the <i>Salt Lake Tribune</i>, "I haven't heard my name associated with [the White Horse Prophecy] or anything of that nature. That's not official church doctrine.... I don't put that at the heart of my religious belief."<sup id="cite_ref-Beck_AOL_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beck_AOL-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Romney_Trib_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Romney_Trib-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Glenn_Beck">Glenn Beck</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Glenn Beck"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg/220px-Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="119" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg/330px-Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/88/Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg/440px-Glenn_Beck_Restoring_Honor_Finger_Pointing.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1800" data-file-height="972" /></a><figcaption>Media figure <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Glenn Beck</a>, speaking at the <a href="/wiki/Restoring_Honor_rally" title="Restoring Honor rally">Restoring Honor rally</a> in 2010</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Conservatism_in_the_United_States" title="Conservatism in the United States">Conservative</a> media figure <a href="/wiki/Glenn_Beck" title="Glenn Beck">Glenn Beck</a>, who joined the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1999, has alleged that President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> "is going to bring us to the verge of shredding the Constitution, of massive socialism."<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On November 14, 2008, after Obama's election, Beck appeared on <a href="/wiki/Bill_O%27Reilly_(political_commentator)" title="Bill O'Reilly (political commentator)">Bill O'Reilly</a>'s show <i><a href="/wiki/The_O%27Reilly_Factor" title="The O'Reilly Factor">The O'Reilly Factor</a></i> and said that "we are at the place where the Constitution hangs in the balance, I feel the Constitution is hanging in the balance right now, hanging by a thread unless the good Americans wake up."<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Earlier in November, while interviewing <a href="/wiki/US_Senator" class="mw-redirect" title="US Senator">US Senator</a> <a href="/wiki/Orrin_Hatch" title="Orrin Hatch">Orrin Hatch</a> of Utah, also a Mormon, Beck had remarked, "I heard Barack Obama talk about the Constitution and I thought, we are at the point or we are very near the point where our Constitution is hanging by a thread."<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Latter_Day_Taint_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Latter_Day_Taint-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hatch appeared on Beck's <a href="/wiki/Fox_News" title="Fox News">Fox News</a> show in January 2009, and Beck prompted him by declaring, "I believe our Constitution hangs by a thread."<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Blogger and religious commentator <a href="/wiki/Joanna_Brooks" title="Joanna Brooks">Joanna Brooks</a> has said that "it is likely that Beck owes his brand of Founding Father–worship to Mormonism.... Many Mormons also believe that Joseph Smith prophesied in 1843 that the US Constitution would one day 'hang by a thread' and be saved by faithful Mormons."<sup id="cite_ref-RDBrooks_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-RDBrooks-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> journalist <a href="/wiki/Dana_Milbank" title="Dana Milbank">Dana Milbank</a> has described Beck's views as essentially "White Horse Prophecy meets horsemen of the apocalypse,"<sup id="cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but Milbank has also observed that the White Horse Prophecy is "actually a fairly benign prophecy. They're talking about restoring law and order and peace and tranquility. It doesn't sound like a violent thing."<sup id="cite_ref-NPR_Coded_Lines_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NPR_Coded_Lines-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rex_Rammell">Rex Rammell</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Rex Rammell"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Rex_%22T-Rex%22_Rammell_at_Campbell_County_League_of_Women_Voters%27_General_Election_Candidates%27_Forum_in_Gillette,_Wyoming.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img 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href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints issued a statement that said that the church is "politically neutral" and hoped that "the campaign practices of political candidates would not suggest that their candidacy is supported by or connected to the church."<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rammell later retracted his original plan to limit his meetings to Latter-day Saint men and apologized to "all those citizens who are not members of the LDS faith, who have expressed a sincere interest in attending my meetings and discussing this prophecy and how we can step forward and save the United States Constitution."<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=White_Horse_Prophecy&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239009302">.mw-parser-output .portalbox{padding:0;margin:0.5em 0;display:table;box-sizing:border-box;max-width:175px;list-style:none}.mw-parser-output .portalborder{border:1px solid var(--border-color-base,#a2a9b1);padding:0.1em;background:var(--background-color-neutral-subtle,#f8f9fa)}.mw-parser-output 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Retrieved August 25, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Under_Gods-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Under_Gods_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Under_Gods_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/1568582838">One Nation Under Gods: A History of the Mormon Church</a>,</i> <a href="/wiki/Richard_Abanes" title="Richard Abanes">Richard Abanes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Basic_Books" title="Basic Books">Basic Books</a> (2003), p. xvii.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-An_American_president-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-An_American_president_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-An_American_president_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-An_American_president_4-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWolff,_Elaine2007" class="citation news cs1">Wolff, Elaine (October 17, 2007). 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Retrieved August 25, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFNoel_A._Carmack1996" class="citation journal cs1">Noel A. Carmack (Fall 1996). "Of Prophets and Pale Horses: Joseph Smith, Benjamin West, and the American Millenarian Tradition". <i><a href="/wiki/Dialogue:_A_Journal_of_Mormon_Thought" title="Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought">Dialogue: A Journal of Mormon Thought</a></i>: 173.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Dialogue%3A+A+Journal+of+Mormon+Thought&rft.atitle=Of+Prophets+and+Pale+Horses%3A+Joseph+Smith%2C+Benjamin+West%2C+and+the+American+Millenarian+Tradition&rft.ssn=fall&rft.pages=173&rft.date=1996&rft.au=Noel+A.+Carmack&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Horse+Prophecy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFBushman2005" class="citation book cs1">Bushman, Richard L. (2005). <i><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Smith:_Rough_Stone_Rolling" title="Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling">Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/New_York_City" title="New York City">New York</a>: <a href="/wiki/Alfred_A._Knopf" title="Alfred A. Knopf">Knopf</a>. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/josephsmithrough00bush/page/392">392–394</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4000-4270-4" title="Special:BookSources/1-4000-4270-4"><bdi>1-4000-4270-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Joseph+Smith%3A+Rough+Stone+Rolling&rft.place=New+York&rft.pages=392-394&rft.pub=Knopf&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=1-4000-4270-4&rft.aulast=Bushman&rft.aufirst=Richard+L.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Horse+Prophecy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-I_Have_a_Question_1976_Stewart-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-I_Have_a_Question_1976_Stewart_8-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFStewart,_D._Michael1976" class="citation web cs1">Stewart, D. Michael (June 1976). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/ensign/1976/06/i-have-a-question?lang=eng">"I Have a Question"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Ensign_(LDS_magazine)" title="Ensign (LDS magazine)">Ensign</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 August</span> 2015</span>. <q>The documents show that Joseph Smith did prophesy a number of times that the United States and the Constitution would be imperiled and that the elders would have a hand in saving them.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Ensign&rft.atitle=I+Have+a+Question&rft.date=1976-06&rft.au=Stewart%2C+D.+Michael&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.churchofjesuschrist.org%2Fstudy%2Fensign%2F1976%2F06%2Fi-have-a-question%3Flang%3Deng&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Horse+Prophecy" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-HPMilbank-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-HPMilbank_9-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dana-milbank/post_996_b_749750.html?view=print">Mormon Prophecy Behind Glenn Beck's Message</a> by <a href="/wiki/Dana_Milbank" title="Dana Milbank">Dana Milbank</a>, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Huffington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The Huffington Post">The Huffington Post</a></i>, October 5, 2010. Retrieved August 25, 2011.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The identity of the "Red Horse" is not stated in the prophecy.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Anderson_Prophetic_Years-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Anderson_Prophetic_Years_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFAnderson,_Wing1946" class="citation book cs1">Anderson, Wing (1946). <i>Prophetic Years 1947–1953</i>. 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Park">Benjamin E. Park</a> – audio with transcript). <a href="/wiki/KUER" class="mw-redirect" title="KUER">KUER</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Latter-day%3A+White+Horse+Prophecy%2C+Romney+And+The+Constitution+Hanging+By+A+Thread&rft.date=2019-10-22&rft.au=Lee+Hale&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.kuer.org%2Fpost%2Flatter-day-white-horse-prophecy-romney-and-constitution-hanging-thread%23stream%2F0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Horse+Prophecy" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKyle_Mantyla2020" class="citation web cs1">Kyle Mantyla (January 17, 2020). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/perry-stone-mitt-romney-might-support-impeachment-to-fulfill-the-white-horse-prophecy/">"Perry Stone: Mitt Romney Might Support Impeachment to Fulfill 'The White Horse Prophecy'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <a href="/wiki/Right_Wing_Watch" class="mw-redirect" title="Right Wing Watch">Right Wing Watch</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Perry+Stone%3A+Mitt+Romney+Might+Support+Impeachment+to+Fulfill+%27The+White+Horse+Prophecy%27&rft.pub=Right+Wing+Watch&rft.date=2020-01-17&rft.au=Kyle+Mantyla&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.rightwingwatch.org%2Fpost%2Fperry-stone-mitt-romney-might-support-impeachment-to-fulfill-the-white-horse-prophecy%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AWhite+Horse+Prophecy" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul>    </div><noscript><img src="https://login.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:CentralAutoLogin/start?type=1x1" alt="" width="1" height="1" style="border: none; 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