The White Horse Prophecy Foresaw a Mormon President in Mitt Romney
Reuters by Sally Denton
When Mitt Romney received his patriarchal blessing as a Michigan teenager, he was told that the Lord expected great things from him. All young Mormon men — the “worthy males” of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, as it is officially known — receive such a blessing as they embark on their requisite journeys as religious missionaries. But at 19 years of age, the youngest son of the most prominent Mormon in American politics — a seventh-generation direct descendant of one of the faith’s founding 12 apostles—Mitt Romney had been singled out as a destined leader.
From the time of his birth — March 13, 1947 — through adolescence and into manhood, the meshing of religion and politics was paramount in Mitt Romney’s life. Called “my miracle baby” by his mother, who had been told by her physician that it was impossible for her to bear a fourth child, Romney was christened Willard Mitt Romney in honor of close family friend and one of the richest Mormons in history, J. Willard Marriott….
In 1962, when Mitt … was fulfilling his spiritual obligation as a Mormon missionary in France in 1968 while his father was the front-runningGOP presidential candidate, Mitt was kept apprised of the political developments back in the U.S. … The pious world of BYU was expected to spawn the man who would lead the Mormons into the White House and fulfill the prophecies of the church’s founder, Joseph Smith Jr., which Romney has avidly sought to realize.
Romney avoids mentioning it, but Joseph Smith ran for president in 1844 as an independent commander in chief of an “army of God” advocating the overthrow of the U.S. government in favor of a Mormon-ruled theocracy. Challenging Democrat James Polk and Whig Henry Clay, Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that “they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.” Smith viewed capturing the presidency as part of the mission of the church. He had predicted the emergence of “the one Mighty and Strong” — a leader who would “set in order the house of God” — and became the first of many prominent Mormon men to claim the mantle.
Smith prophesied that if the U.S. Congress did not accede to his demands that “they shall be broken up as a government and God shall damn them.”
Out of Smith’s national political ambitions grew what would become known in Mormon circles as the “White Horse Prophecy” — a belief ingrained in Mormon culture and passed down through generations by church leaders that the day would come when the U.S. Constitution would ”hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber” and the Mormon priesthood would save it.
Romney is the product of this culture. At BYU, he was idolized by fellow students and referred to, only half jokingly, as the “One Mighty and Strong.” He was the “alpha male” in the rarefied Cougar pack, according to Michael D. Moody, a BYU classmate and fellow member of the group. Composed almost exclusively of returned Mormon missionaries, the club members were known for their preppy blue blazers and enthusiastic athletic boosterism. Romney, who had been the assistant to the president of the French Mission where he was personally in charge of more than 200 missionaries, easily assumed a leadership position in the club.
Romney … was idolized by fellow students and referred to … as the “One Mighty and Strong.”
Both political and religious, the Cougar Club raised funds for the school and its members emulated the campus-wide honor and dress codes, passionately disavowing the counterculture symbolism of long hair, bell-bottom jeans and antiwar slogans that were sweeping college campuses throughout America. They held monthly “Fireside testimonies” — Sacrament meetings at which each member testified to his belief that he lived in Heaven before being born on Earth, that he became mortal in order to usher in the latter days, and that he recognized Joseph Smith as the prophet, the Book of Mormon as the word of God, and the Mormon church as the one true faith [and the devout Mormon’s goal of becoming a god or a goddess. They also professed that God the Father was once a sinful man who progressed to become a god].
… “The instructions in my [patriarchal] blessing, which I believed came directly from Jesus, motivated me to seek a career in government and politics,” he wrote in his 2008 book. Moody recently said that he ran for governor of Nevada in 1982 because he felt he had been divinely directed to “expand our kingdom” and help Romney “lead the world into the Millennium. Once a firm believer but now a church critic, Moody was indoctrinated with the White Horse Prophecy. Like Romney, Moody is a seventh-generation Mormon, steeped in the same intellectual and theological milieu.
“We were taught that America is the Promised Land,” he said in an interview.” The Mormons are the Chosen People. And the time is now for a Mormon leader to usher in the second coming of Christ and install the political Kingdom of God in Washington, D.C.”
In this scenario, Romney’s candidacy is part of the eternal plan and the candidate himself is fulfilling the destiny begun in what the church calls the “pre-existence.”
Several prominent Mormons, including conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck, have alluded to this apocalyptic prophecy. …
… Americans … know little or nothing about Mormonism [most do not know that Mormons believe that God the Father was once a sinful man and that faithful Mormons can become gods], another 32 percent rejecting Mormonism as a Christian faith, a whopping 42 percent saying they would feel uncomfortable with a Mormon president…
… A creed unlike any other in the United States, from its inception Mormonism — Mormons have long been recruited into top positions in government agencies and multinational corporations. They are prominent in such institutions as the CIA, FBI and the national nuclear weapons laboratories, giving the church a sphere of influence unlike any other American religion in the top echelons of government… Mitt Romney was groomed for a prominent position in the church, which he manifested first as a missionary, then as a bishop, and then as a stake president, becoming the highest-ranking Mormon leader in Boston — the equivalent of a cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church.
Called a “militant millennial movement” by renowned Mormon historian David L. Bigler, Mormonism’s founding theology was based upon a literal takeover of the U.S. government. In light of the theology and divine prophecies of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, unamended by the LDS hierarchy, it would seem that the office of the American presidency is the ultimate ecclesiastical position to which a Mormon leader might aspire. So it is not the LDS cosmology that is relevant to Romney’s candidacy, but whether devout 21stcentury Mormons like Romney believe that the American presidency is also a theological position…
Sally Denton is the author most recently of American Massacre.
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This is frightening in many ways. The elections we have seem for Christians to be a lose lose situation. We either have someone who is going to try and lead the country into socialism and the influence of Islam, or someone who will be leading the country into mormonism. Either way you spin it, Christians and Christianity are threatened. God save us!!!
In Mormonism as with Islamic religion, the woman is subserverviant and the man is revered. Suicide bombers believe they will be given multiple virgins in the next life. Mormons believe that men will be given multiple wives in heaven, with which they will procreate worlds without end.
Just saying…
Please get this out to every webb site you frequent your e-mail – friends ect.
if you believe every story you read on the internet then the world should have ended several times now.let God be God.and if you need any help with facts about anything then you should look for them before you post garbage about anyone else on here.
Being a devout Mormon, and Christian, my whole life I have never read something about members of the faith that is so twisted and full of lies, misinterpetation of facts. As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, I am proud of the fact I worship Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. WE DO NOT believe that God was once a sinner!! How pathetic and twisted. There is so much to be debuncked I don’t even know where to start. Sufice to say that this is a real nasty hit piece on the church. If you really want to know what the church is about, why not go to the LDS.org website and see for yourself, instead of reading such garbage. This piece is so insulting and ugly, let alone hurtful… Mitt Rommey is a good and honnest man with real integrity.
Patrice: You are incorrect on numerous counts. Your wicked leaders have stated on countless occasions that God was once a sinful man and that faithful mormons may become gods.
Here’s just a few blasphemous quotes that help lead multitudes to eternal judgment:
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man… if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form” (Mormon prophet Joseph F. Smith).
“As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become” (Mormon Apostle Lorenzo Snow).
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!.. I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and have supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea” (Mormon prophet Joseph Smith).
…[O]ur Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man… our Father had a father and so on” (Joseph F. Smith).
Additionally:
Romney went on a LDS mission trip; he loves the Mormon church, and he was stoutly pro-Abortion and pro-Alternative marriage for many years before he changed his views to run for President. Romney taught, now teaches and supports doctrines like: “Our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man… our Father had a father and so on…” (LDS Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith).
“God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man… He became a God…”(LDS leader Milton Hunter).
I can’t see how to vote for a very very wicked man in obama or Romney – im praying about voting for a 3rd party Christian as the Constitution party advocates- im responsible for my vote – not the outcome of the whole voting process – men die, get ill, rumors arise, and other issues to take them out. i cannot vote for a horribly wicked man in romney or Obama
mitt romney is one of the most wicked men in the world – he professes and teaches others doctrines of demons like: “You got to learn to be gods yourselves, and be kings and priests to God, the same as all gods have done before you…”(Mormon Scholar B.H. Roberts).
I was once “a devout Mormon, and Christian, my whole life”. Now I just call myself a Christian.
You seem offened when someone else says what we”ve been told for years. Coming from someone else it sounds wrong. Maybe it is wrong, the wrong religious teaching. Only when you finally stop following and believing everything you hear, and start to think for yourself, can you really find peace.
God once a man is one very important point at which Mormons hold to. It is also the point that divides them from Christianity.
Christian,
It appears you do not understand the bible that well because Mormonism & Christianity is in now way similar when it comes to salvation.
I could write a book on Joseph Smith and the mountain of lies he has spewed, that in NO WAY are in accordance with scripture. Do more research and you will realize the differences and you will see the legalism and many false doctrines of Mormonism (JW’S, Mormon & Muslim all have prophets that they esteem more than Christ).
Dude, you’re whole argument doesn’t work because the Mormon church declared the White Horse Prophecy not written by Joseph Smith. We DONT believe it. In 1950′s we were reminded that this prophecy is not one of ours, it was written by someone else trying to act like a prophet. Seriously man, at least check your work. You think b/c some idiots on message board or website said they thought the coming of one mighty and strong meant Mitt Romney. 99% of the church discard the white horse prophecy as not real prophecy.
Good. That is a fine start. Now urge the LDS to reject the wicked notions that God was once a sinful man who progressed to godhood. And plead with the Mormons to abandon the blasphemous notion that men may become gods.
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man… if you were to see him today, you would see him like a man in form” (Mormon prophet Joseph F. Smith).
“As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become” (Mormon Apostle Lorenzo Snow).
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens!.. I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and have supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea” (Mormon prophet Joseph Smith).
…[O]ur Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man… our Father had a father and so on” (Joseph F. Smith).
Additionally:
Mitt Romney went on a LDS mission trip; he loves the Mormon church, and he was stoutly pro-Abortion and pro-Alternative marriage for many years before he changed his views to run for President. Romney taught, now teaches and supports doctrines like: “Our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man… our Father had a father and so on…” (LDS Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith).
“God the Eternal Father was once a mortal man… He became a God…”(LDS leader Milton Hunter).
I can’t see how to vote for a very very wicked man in obama or Romney – im praying about voting for a 3rd party Christian as the Constitution party advocates- im responsible for my vote – not the outcome of the whole voting process – men die, get ill, rumors arise, and other issues to take them out. i cannot vote for a horribly wicked man in romney or Obama
and just when did Romney say he was going to force his religion on us?do you believe everything you read on the internet?you must you post and don’t have a clue if it is true or not. and you call yourself a christian.then act like one your making all of us other christian’s look bad.
Perhaps. But the problem with Mormonism (Mitt Romney’s faith) is it propagates horrible and blasphemous doctrines such as the following:
“As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become” (LDS Apostle Lorenzo Snow).
“God himself was once as we are now, and is an exalted man, and sits enthroned in yonder heavens… I am going to tell you how God came to be God. We have imagined and have supposed that God was God from all eternity. I will refute that idea” (Mormon prophet Joseph Smith).
“Our Father in heaven at one time passed through a life and death and is an exalted man… our Father had a father and so on… (LDS Prophet Joseph Fielding Smith).
Remember that God, our heavenly Father, was perhaps once a child, and mortal like we ourselves, and rose step by step in the scale of progress… (Mormon Apostle Orson Hyde, Journal of Discourses, 1:123).
“Gods exist, and we better strive to prepare to be one with them” (Brigham Young, Journal of Discourses, 7:238).
“The Gods, organized and formed the heavens and the earth” (Abraham 4:1).
“As man is, God once was, as God is, man may become” (Mormon Apostle Lorenzo Snow).
“Abraham… Isaac… and Jacob… sit upon thrones… not as angels but are gods (Doctrine and Covenants 132:37).
“As the acorn becomes the oak, the mortal man becomes a god (LDS prophet and President Spencer W. Kimball).
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I urge all LDS and all polytheists to flee from such doctrines of demons and embrace the true and living God and the true Jesus Christ.
To M. Robinson:
And because you do not adhere to the belief that man has the potential to become a God, it becomes apparent that you do not fully comprehend the full meaning behind Jesus Christ having come to earth in mortality yet as God, so you declare it as evil and a doctrine of demons because it is foreign to you. Jesus Christ clearly stated that He did ALL that His Father had done before Him and that we are to be perfect, even as our Father in Heaven is perfect, indicating not only that His earthly actions were not a new idea He had thought of in earthly adulthood but rather part His Fathers plan in which he played the major role and his Father before Him had previously done. Such sublime commanding words spoken by the Saviour to all of Gods children should not be dismissed simply because one adheres to what the ‘paid ministries’ of the day insist is subject only to their interpretation and to what is ‘main stream religion’ doctrinally acceptable. Were that the case, you would have failed had you walked the earth when the Saviour was here because you would have rejected HIS truths and mission which were not considered ‘mainstream’. He also preached and spoke evidences supported by scripture written by Prophets of old, whose prophecies the Pharisees also chose to warp for their convenience yet their true meaning was still valid. There is nothing new about the doctrine that man can become a God IF he is humble and perfected. The very sacred Name of Elohim is plural.
Marah opined: “To M. Robinson:
And because you do not adhere to the belief that man has the potential to become a God, it becomes apparent that you do not fully comprehend the full meaning behind Jesus Christ having come to earth in mortality yet as God, so you declare it as evil and a doctrine of demons because it is foreign to you. Jesus Christ clearly stated that He did ALL that His Father had done before Him and that we are to be perfect, even as our Father in Heaven is perfect, indicating not only that His earthly actions were not a new idea He had thought of in earthly adulthood but rather part His Fathers plan in which he played the major role and his Father before Him had previously done. Such sublime commanding words spoken by the Saviour to all of Gods children should not be dismissed simply because one adheres to what the ‘paid ministries’ of the day insist is subject only to their interpretation and to what is ‘main stream religion’ doctrinally acceptable. Were that the case, you would have failed had you walked the earth when the Saviour was here because you would have rejected HIS truths and mission which were not considered ‘mainstream’. He also preached and spoke evidences supported by scripture written by Prophets of old, whose prophecies the Pharisees also chose to warp for their convenience yet their true meaning was still valid. There is nothing new about the doctrine that man can become a God IF he is humble and perfected. The very sacred Name of Elohim is plural.”
One more LDS member publicly admitting that she believes men may become gods. After 30 years of helping Mormons I am still shocked at their brazen blasphemies.
Professing such blasphemy breaks what Jesus named as the First of all Commandments: One God (Mark 12:29-30). Thus you must repent and turn away from such horrible and damning doctrines to find pardon and forgiveness in the true Jesus Christ (not a progressed man who became a god among many gods).
If a cat becomes perfect it is a perfect cat. If a eagle becomes a perfect eagle it remains an eagle. A perfect man remains a man and never becomes a god.
The true God was not a sinful man who lied, lusted, and cheated before he progressed to become a god – that’s sheer wickedness to impute that to the true God. Turn away from breaking the first 3 of the 10 Commandments and trust in the one true God and your shame and guilt will be rinsed away.
Mark 12:29-30 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
And you assume, in your ignorance, that because the doctrine of “man may become God” is out there AND far from new, that I am a Mormon? Fool—did it ever occur to you that I might be a semite–BOTH Arab and Jew! You state nothing other than the blind modern day machinations and warping of scriptures of the very WELL paid modern Christian ministers whom I have PERSONALLY watched as they spend the tithing monies paid with sacrifice and the open hearts of their members on cars, diamond rings and watches. It is nothing more than entertainment..not worship. I have watched repeatedly your programs of all these so called well intending, save mankind with redundant contentious and dividing words while crucifying your fellow believers in Christ-regardless of their choice of religion. All you attackers of fellow believers are a shame to Christs written words. You are nearly as bad as radical Muslims who also manipulate the words of Allah to the death of the innocents forcing your evil divisiveness on any who will hear your spat. That is why the Muslim world has little respect for this modern Christianity–because you are divided, in Israel this money driven Christianity is repected BUT not embraced for the same reason. God is clear…he who says Raca to a brother is damned. In the name of Christianity and in fellowship to all in these violent times embrace and repent… or the U.S. will fall a divided nation!
There is no excuse for defending such blasphemy; it breaks what Jesus named as the First of all Commandments: One God (Mark 12:29-30). Thus you must repent and turn away from such horrible and damning doctrines to find pardon and forgiveness in the true Jesus Christ (not a progressed man who became a god among many gods).
The sins you observed of others in no way gives you an excuse to defend the blasphemies of the Mormons. The true God was not a sinful man who lied, lusted, and cheated before he progressed to become a god as the LDS profess- that’s sheer wickedness to impute that to the true God. Turn away from defending the breaking of the first three of the Ten Commandments and trust in the one true God and your shame and guilt will be rinsed away.
Mark 12:29-30 Jesus answered him, “The first of all the commandments is: ‘Hear, O Israel, the Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your mind, and with all your strength.’ This is the first commandment.
I trust Jesus over you and your inanities as well as over the wickedness of Mormonism.
This is exactly why the majority of US citizens want separation of church and state! I have become an agnosti, due to the fact that every religion believe they are the one true religion. I believe in God but refuse to believe only one group are the blessed ones. To feel that way about your chosen religion is narcissitic to the highest level! When you place yourself above others, instead of seeing what is right for all. I have seen with most churches, money is their God. The more you have the closer you are to eternal life? Where has the phrase of ” the meek shall inherit the Earth” gone? If you are A narcissist you are NOT meek.
Lina: Thanks for your positing your opinion. You stated: “to believe only one group are the blessed ones. To feel that way about your chosen religion is narcissitic to the highest level!” Yet you feel that same way apropos your agnosticism. For it’s more blessed to be correct, like u, than to be one of those narcissists.
Your heavy and severe judgment toward religious people betrays your assumed innocence. Moreover, like all people you have sinned and you need a Savior. So turn from your sin, ungodly anger, and pride and trust in Christ. He will forgive all your sins and misdeeds.
John 3:16-21 For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. 17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. 18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”