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Joseph Smith’s fifty-six-year prediction

Minutes, Discourse, and Blessings, 14–15 February 1835 · Minute Book 1, p. 147: “He said God had not designed” through “power from on high.”

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He said God had not designed all this for nothing, but he had it in remembrance yet, and those who went to Zion, with a determination to lay down their lives, if necessary, it was the Will of God, that they should be ordained to the ministry and go forth to prune the vineyard for the last time, or the coming of the Lord, which was nigh, even fifty six years, should wind up the scene. He said many things such as the weak things, even the smallest and weakest among us shall be powerful and mighty and great things, should be accomplished by you, even from this hour. He said, you shall begin to feel the whisperings of the Spirit of God, and the works of God, shall begin to break forth from this time. you shall be endowed with power from on high.

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1000 BCE01000150018001900200014 February 1835 · Prophecy given or recorded · Smith’s reported fifty-six-year prediction1891 · year inferred from the 1835 report · Predicted date · The scene winds up in fifty-six years
  1. 14 February 1835Smith’s reported fifty-six-year prediction Prophecy given or recorded
  2. 1891 · year inferred from the 1835 reportThe scene winds up in fifty-six years Predicted date · stated 14 February 1835

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