Wow. This is amazing. Two of you, mormons, are so desperate to defend Joseph Smith's failed prophecy and insist it is not a failed one that you are resorting to a ridiculous assertion.
That assertion which you are both making is that Joseph Smith's prophecy was not tying subsequent wars to the Civil War, but rather was providing "a general revelation on war" and that "warfare has, indeed, covered the face of the Earth since then, so it's not actually wrong."
If Joseph Smith was "prophesying" simply that there would be many wars, then this is a fail on two levels:
1. He prophesied that these wars would "begin" with the Civil War. Well, no, the constancy of wars occurring throughout the world preceded the Civil War and subsequent (and UNRELATED) wars are not a continuation of some unique pattern of wars kicked off by the Civil War (as JS prophesied) but rather a continuation of normal historical patterns of the occurrence of wars throughout the world.
2. Somewhat related to the 1st point, it is not a prophecy to predict that there will be wars poured out upon the world as this is what has been happening throughout history. If you look at a list of the wars throughout the world (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_war#Wars) it is clear that it doesn't take a prophet to predict that wars will constantly be occurring throughout the world. It's like saying someone's a prophet for predicting that daylight will return every morning. It's something anyone can predict based on observation of very consistent patterns in the past and present.
But no matter how much either of you try to distort it, it's clear that Joseph Smith was prophesying a connection between the American Civil War and subsequent wars throughout the world, and there is no such connection. He predicted that the South would call upon "other nations" who in turn would also call upon "other nations" to defend themselves against "other nations"... It reads like a monkey with mental disabilities wrote it. And it is clearly WRONG.
Jesus did the same thing;
Matt 24
6 And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
"7 For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.
Didn't make him a false prophet.
Remember this Prophecy on War was given in 1832 a full 29 years before the Civil War started and then lets add this from D&C 130; April 2, 1843
"I prophesy, in the name of the Lord God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina"
He got that right!
And this one given to General Alexander. W. Doniphan, The story is told by Doniphan's brother in-law Leonidas M. Lawson. Both non Mormons.
"On one occasion General Doniphan caused the sheriff of the county to bring Joseph Smith from the prison to his law office, for the purpose of consultation about his defense. During Smith's presence in the office, a resident of Jackson county, Missouri, came in for the purpose of paying a fee which was due by him to the firm of Doniphan & Baldwin, and offered in payment a tract of land in Jackson county.
"Doniphan told him that his partner, Mr. Baldwin, was absent at the moment, but as soon as he had an opportunity he would consult him and decide about the matter. When the Jackson county man retired, Joseph Smith, who had overheard the conversation, addressed General Doniphan about as follows:
"'Doniphan, I advise you not to take that Jackson county land in payment of the debt. God's wrath hangs over Jackson county. God's people have been ruthlessly driven from it, and you will live to see the day when it will be visited by fire and sword. The Lord of Hosts will sweep it with the besom of destruction. The fields and farms and houses will be destroyed, and only the chimneys will be left to mark the desolation.'
"General Doniphan said to me that the devastation of Jackson county forcibly reminded him of this remarkable prediction of the Mormon Prophet. . . ."
It was called order 11, "1. All persons living in Jackson, Cass, and Bates counties, Missouri, and in that part of Vernon included in this district, except those living within one mile of the limits of Independence, Hickman's Mills, Pleasant Hill, and Harrisonville, and except those in that part of Kaw Township, Jackson County, north of Brush Creek and west of Big Blue, are hereby ordered to remove from their present places of residence within fifteen days from the date hereof."
They literally striped the county of Jackson bare and burned nearly every house to the ground leaving only the chimneys standing.
There is a difference here concerning wars in the past;
2 And the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place.
I bet there is a lot about the Civil war you don't know!
"The most dramatic gestures of cooperation between the Russian Empire and the United States came in the autumn of 1863, as the Laird rams crisis hung in the balance. On September 24, the Russian Baltic fleet began to arrive in New York harbor. On October 12, the Russian Far East fleet began to arrive in San Francisco....The Russian admirals had also been told that, if the US and Russia were to find themselves at war with Britain and France, the Russian ships should place themselves under Lincoln’s command and operate in synergy with the US Navy against the common enemies. It is thus highly significant that the Russian ships were sent to the United States."
http://www.voltairenet.org/article169488.html
The French and British had sided with the Confederacy, they wanted America to break up, they were collaborating within Mexico trying to provoke a war and then they tried to get Russia to join them but the Czar of Russia liked Lincoln. The British then tried to occupy Poland in order to cause a crisis for Russia and keep her out of our civil war.
Our Civil War had repercussions around the world.
Never before had there been a 'world war' where literally all nations were involved.
Who would have thought the nation who prided itself in the fact the sun never set on it would have to call on Mexico to get 75% of it's oil. Did ya know Brazil was part of WW1, the Germans kept sinking their boats so they declared war. China declared war on Germany on Aug 14, 1917. The whole world was at war with each other, that had not happened before!
Now you can bury your head in the sand and deny all you want but that doesn't make Joseph a false Prophet.
