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Show 332 13. Joseph Smith, Jr., Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, comp. Joseph Fielding Smith (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1979), p. l4l. 14. Ibid., p. 18. The position of the church is that the great wars did commence as prophesied with the American Civil War. This was the beginning of the desolation process. Interestingly, Joseph Smith prophesied the wars would begin in South Carolina which is where the Civil War did begin. See Doctrine and Covenants, 87. 15. Doctrine and Covenants, 136:34-35. 16. Joseph Smith, Jr., Teachings, p. 308. 17. Doctrine and Covenants, 57:1-3. 18. Ibid., 63:37. 19. Ibid., 115:6. 20. Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church, 3:390. 21. Joseph Smith, Jr., Teachings, p. 183 22. Klaus J. Hansen, Quest for Empire, The Political Kingdom of God and the Council of Fifty in Mormon History (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1970; Bison Book, 1974), p. 52. 23. Daniel 2:44. 24. Hansen, Quest for Empire, p. 11. Today the kingdom of God described by Daniel is considered to be the church of the Latter-day Saints. The kingdom is considered to be a spiritual rather than political kingdom. See Ezra Taft Benson, "A tfarvelous Work and a Wonder," Ensign, )Nfey I98O, p. 32. 25. Joseph Smith, Jr., History of the Church, 4:364. 26. Orson Pratt, The Kingdom of God, 4 parts (Liverpool: R. James, 1848-49), 1:1. 27. "Articles of Faith," Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, # 12. 28. Joseph Smith Jr., History of the Church, 6:365» 29. Doctrine and Covenants, 101:56-57- |
