Without Disclosing My True Identity
misrepresentations of the evil one, who lies in wait to deceive and to mislead the
people of God from the paths of righteousness and truth.^55The most controversial and egocentric tradition that came out of the White Horse
Prophecy is that the LDS/Mormons believe that the Constitution of the United States will
one day hang by a thread,^56 meaning that the rights and the powers it guarantees will one
day become impotent. They believe that the LDS Church, by the power of its priesthood
authority, will rise up and save the U.S. Constitution from failure, and that the LDS people
will become bastions of American truth and righteousness.
“Inspired” by these imaginations of their hearts, Mormons devised a myth revolving
around the book of Revelation that mentions one on a “white horse” coming to the earth
and saving the world.^57 As is a common LDS/Mormon tendency, the people replaced the
idea of Christ—who actually represents the one sitting upon the white horse in John’s
eschatological vision—with their Church and its priesthood authority. In all LDS doctrine
and precepts, Christ and the “fullness of [his] everlasting Gospel” are replaced with the
doctrines of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and its priesthood authority. The
same is also true of the other less-prominent LDS/Mormon sects and their doctrines and
versions of the priesthood.
Joseph’s Views on the Constitution of the United States and Politics
In his writings while incarcerated in the Liberty Jail and in some of his letters
thereafter, Joseph extolled the U.S. Constitution^58 and the apparent freedoms and virtues
guaranteed by it. This was not because he believed it was worth the paper it was written
upon, and especially not because he thought it was “inspired from God,” but because he
was under mandate to give the people the desires of their hearts and the delusions of
their minds. However, it should no less be noted that he also wrote of the Constitution’s
virtues to buy some populist popularity and to pretend to be an American patriot, in
order to quicken his release from jail.
The real Joseph Smith, Jr. could not have been any further from being a patriotic
supporter of the United States of America. The U.S. Constitution was nothing close to the
“words of Christ.”^59 It exalted men over women, whites over dark-skinned people, and
placed the power of the new Republic, not in the hands of the people, but in the hands of a
few men whom the people elected. Once elected, as a result of empty promises and public
demonstrations of their personalities and oratory skills, the U.S. Congress utilized its power
for one thing and one thing only: to “lay up for [themselves] treasures on earth, where moth
and rust doth corrupt, and thieves break through and steal.”^60
The U.S. Constitution became the backbone of the “great and abominable church
of the devil,”^61 as described in the Book of Mormon; and in the book of Revelation as the
other “beast coming up out of the earth...[with] two horns like a lamb, [who] spake as a
dragon.”^62 Joseph Smith knew this all along; but again, had he revealed what he knew to
the prideful and patriotic American people who belonged to the LDS Church, they
would have risen up and killed him.^63
Joseph personally knew the one “sitting upon the white horse.”^64 He understood
what it meant when it said, “out of his [Christ’s] mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it
he should smite the nations,”^65 including the nation of the United States. He knew that if
this “great” nation did not fail before Christ came, it would be destroyed along with its