Thursday, March 1, 2012

Memo #138


March 1, 2012 (written April 3, 2008) share at: http://www.prattmemos.blogspot.com
To: My Beloved Family
From: Dad, Grandpa Richard Marden Pratt
Re: Prophetic warnings continued ........and don’t miss the last page for Easter!

This message will be gruesome and depict some terrible scenes that are already happening on the earth as the disobedient children of our Father in Heaven refuse to listen and to obey. But remember that as a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints there is no reason to be fearful of the events now happening and will increase in their frequency and terror. If you are prepared spiritually and physically you have no need to fear.
Spiritual preparation is to have a testimony of the truthfulness of the Church of our Savior and a total trust in HIM and the scriptures which give us all that we need to know to be safe.
The second year we were married was our starvation period. The so called great depression was raging across the world. (It was anything but great!) We spent our second winter of marriage from October 1st to about March 31st (six months) with little food. 1935-36. We had at the beginning two hundred pounds of flour and about fifty pounds of dried beans. And our first baby, Carolyn to feed and care for. She was six months old at the beginning of this period.
Now 200 pounds of flour gave we two about one half pound per day. Nutritionists say that with little else to eat an adult needs a full pound of flour a day. Our bean supplement allowed us only two ounces each, daily or about four or five bites. Once we had a small quail that I managed to knock down with a stick. Yet when our ordeal ended we still had flour and beans left. We lived comfortably, never went hungry and provided for the baby. And there is only one way that could have happened. The same as the widow woman who fed the prophet Elijah and her son from an empty flour bin and no oil in her jar. Each day she would find enough flour in the bin and oil in the jar for that days needs. YES! Our flour and beans were replenished as we needed them. Why? Because we had obeyed the prophets advice to have a supply of food ahead! (The next time I’ll include a little ketchup.)
I will quote some of the prophecies just as given starting with section 87 of the D&C.
“Verily thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls.
And the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations, beginning at this place.
For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain as it is called, and they shall also call upon other nations in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then WAR SHALL BE POURED OUT UPON ALL NATIONS.
And it shall come to pass, after many days, slaves shall rise up against their masters, who shall be marshaled and disciplined for war.”
            First recorded December 25, 1832, twenty nine years before it happened and it happened even to the one hundred thousand black troops enlisted by the North to fight against their masters.
“And thus, with the sword and by bloodshed the inhabitants of the earth shall mourn; and with famine, and plague, and earthquake, and the thunder of heaven, and the fierce and vivid lightening also, shall the inhabitants of the earth be made to feel the wrath, and indignation, and chastening hand of an
 almighty God, until the consumption decreed hath made a full end of all nations.
That the cry of the saints, and of the blood of the saints, shall cease to come up unto the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth, (means Hosts) from the earth, to be avenged of their enemies.
Wherefore, stand ye in holy places, and be not moved, until the day of the Lord come;  for behold, it cometh quickly, saith the Lord.
             NOTE: war to be poured out upon all nations. There has been no time since the civil war that the earth has had complete peace. Just in my lifetime there have been six major wars waged by our nation. I
was six years old when World War I ended. It and World Ward II were the most devastating wars in


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recorded history and cost an estimated sixty million lives plus plaque, disease, upheavals of nature and suffering beyond measure. And the end is not yet. Note: “Until the wars decreed hath made a full end of ALL nations.” Ours will not be excepted.
It is the chastening hand of Almighty God as a punishment for all the blood of all the saints that has been shed since Cain slew his brother Abel.
To stand in a holy place is to avoid the company of the wicked except when teaching them the truth and many will be converted and saved.
When He cometh quickly means that the world, like in the pre-flood days, was eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage when suddenly or quickly the flood came and there were no survivors except on the Ark.
But the Prophet (Joseph Smith as recorded in History of the Church Vol. 3 pp 390-391) gives even a more graphic picture of world wide wars and particularly in our Once Great United States. Says He: “Wars are at hand; we must not delay; but are not required to sacrifice. We ought to have the building up of Zion as our greatest object. When wars come, we shall have to flee to Zion. The cry is to make haste. Ye shall not have time to have gone over the earth, until these things come, it will come as did the cholera, war, fires and earthquake; one pestilence after another, until the ancient of days (Jesus) comes, then judgement will be given to the saints.”
“I saw men hunting the lives of their own sons, and brother murdering brother, women killing their own daughters, and daughters seeking the lives of their mothers, I saw armies arrayed against armies. I saw blood, desolation, fires. The Son of Man has said that the mother shall be against the daughter, and the daughter against the mother. These things are at our doors. They will follow the Saints of God from city to city and Satan will rage, and the spirit of the devil is now enraged. I know not how soon these things will take place; but with a view of them, shall I cry peace? NO! I will lift up my voice and testify of them. How long you will have good crops, and the famine kept off. I do not know; when the fig tree leafs, know then that the summer is nigh at hand.”
From Heber C. Kimball: “If the righteous scarcely be saved, how will it be with the wicked? Am I looking for famines? Yes, the most terrible and severe that have ever come upon the nations of the earth...If you have done according to the instruction given and now reflect upon the things that I am declaring in your hearing, and lift up your voices unitedly as a people to the God of Heaven that he will be merciful unto us and favor Zion. Be wise, listen to counsel, and obey the voice of the Lord, and you will prosper and never want for bread; but as the Lord liveth, you will feel it, if you do not continue in the line of duty. (Brigham Young spoke up saying, “That is True!”)
Journal of Discourses Vol.5 pp 20-21
Excerpts from a sermon of Orson Pratt delivered in London, England March 9, 1879
“We have a responsibility placed upon us, and that responsibility we must fulfill, whether the people hear or whether they forbear, we must warn them, so that they shall not have excuse, when the tribulations shall come which I have named.....If you receive it you will save yourselves and your children temporally as well as spiritually.....when that day shall come there shall be wars, not such wars as have come in centuries and years that are past and gone, but a desolating war. When I say desolating, I mean that it will lay these European nations in waste. Cities will be left vacated, without inhabitants. The people will be destroyed by the sword of their own hands. Not only this but many other cities will be burned; for when contending armies are wrought up with terrible anger, without the spirit of humility that now characterizes many of the wars amongst nations, when they are left to themselves, there will be no quarter given, no prisoners taken, but a war of destruction, of desolation, of the burning of the cities and villages, until the land is laid desolate.
What about my own nation ~ The American nation? They have had a great desolating war; a war between the North and the South in which many hundreds of thousands were destroyed.
(The Saints were safe out here in the West and not involved in the Civil War.) This war was foretold twenty eight years before it took place; the very place where it should commence was marked out by the


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Prophet Joseph Smith, by him it was designated that the revolution should commence in South Carolina and it did so. By him it was pointed out that this war would be great and terrible, and it came to pass. The time is not far distant in the future, when the Lord God will lay his hand heavily upon this nation. How do you know this? Inquires one. I know from the revelations which God has given upon the subject. I read these revelations when they were first given. I waited over twenty eight years and saw their fulfillment to the very letter. Should I not, then, expect that the balance of them should be fulfilled? What then will be the condition of that people, when this great and terrible war shall come? It will be very different from the war between the North and the South. Do you wish me to describe it? I will do so. It will be a war of neighborhood against neighborhood, city against city, town against town, county against county, state against state, and they will go forth destroying and being destroyed and manufacturing will, in a great measure, cease for a time among the American nation. Why? Because in these terrible wars, they will not be privileged to manufacture. There will be too much bloodshed, too much mobocracy, too much going forth in bands and destroying and pillaging the land to suffer people to pursue any local vocation with any degree of safety. What will become of millions of the farmers upon the land? They will leave their farms and they will remain uncultivated (where does food come from?) And they will flee before the ravaging armies from place to place; and thus they will go forth burning and pillaging the whole country; and that great and powerful nation will be wasted away, UNLESS THEY REPENT. (And some surely will)
You will hear of magnificent cities sinking into the earth, engulfing mighty cities. Famine will spread over the nations, and a nation will rise up against nation, and states against states in our own country. They will destroy each other, caring not for their own lives. They will be like the Jaredites who destroyed each other to the last man.....the faithful of God’s people will see days that will cause them to close their eyes because of the sorrow that will come upon the wicked. The hearts of the faithful will be filled with pain and anguish for them.” ~ President Brigham Young
NOTE: But here in Zion, nestled in the tops of the mountains the Saints may avoid all of these calamities foretold by all the prophets. After they have been purged. Once they can raise the level of righteousness to 65-75 percent as proclaimed by the Prophet Brigham Young, here they will be protected as the wicked destroy themselves. We are running less than 50 percent currently. For our own safety and that of our children and grandchildren, we need to warn our neighbors. Do so and prepare and be safe. ( Note: In our day, Zion means the pure in heart. Or stakes of Zion) There is safety and peace in living the commandments of God and in preparing against a time of need. The foregoing like I said in the beginning is gruesome but you can be happy like Grandma and I were if you will harken to the words of the gospel of Jesus Christ. IT IS TRUE! I KNOW IT TO BE SO! LEARN IT AND LIVE IT. I yearn for all of you to be Christ centered and receive his rewards for being righteous.
All my love,
Dad, Grandpa Pratt
Richard Marden Pratt

continue on for Some awesome quotes from Dad’s memo #94
 HAPPY EASTER TO ALL OF YOU!
... “.This much is certain: after Christ was taken down from the cross, his body was wrapped in linen strips about one foot wide with roughly a hundred pounds of preservatives  poured between the folds. Then he was placed in Joseph’s tomb. A huge stone weighing roughly two tons was rolled against it’s entrance. A Roman seal was affixed, making it a crime punishable by death if broken, four Roman soldiers were stationed in front of the tomb to guard it around the clock. They were to prevent Christ’s body from  being stolen. If his body wasn’t in that tomb on the fourth day, the day after Christ said he was going to rise, it would cost them their lives. And to make sure they stayed awake they changed shifts every two hours. Every perceivable caution was taken to prevent his body from being taken away. Yet


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three days later it was gone. The bloodstained clothes weighing more than 100 pounds were there but the body was gone. The disciples didn’t  wait 50 to 60 years to proclaim  Christ’s  resurrection when no one would be around to deny it. They proclaimed it immediately. They were threatened, flogged, imprisoned and put to death for claiming Christ had risen.
Why didn’t his enemies put his body on display and settle the whole matter. They couldn’t. The best they could come up with was that the disciples had come by night stealing his body away while the guards slept. All the soldiers sleeping at the same time! When the punishment was certain death? Besides how does anyone know what happens while he is asleep? A third grader should be able to see thru a claim as shabby as this. The resurrection of Jesus Christ is not a myth as skeptics would have us believe. It’s one of the best attested facts of history, supported by the strongest kinds of evidence.
Note: Grandma and I were there, we have visited the tomb  it’s  hewn out of solid rock. Yes the story is true. And  what a glorious promise is held out for those who believe......
Start with ch. 8 in 3rd Nephi page 422. At the death of our Savior on the cross there were terrible destructions in the Americas for the majority of the people here had rejected him.
Tempests, earthquakes, fires, whirlwinds and physical upheavals attest to the crucifixion. Many people were destroyed. Then during the 3 days his body lay in the tomb thick darkness covered these lands, no glimmer of light showing. In the darkness the voice of Christ proclaims the destruction of many people and cities. And a voice came from the Heavens saying: “ Wo, Wo, Wo, unto this people; wo unto the inhabitants of the whole earth except they shall repent; for the devil laugheth, and his angels rejoice, because of the slain of the fair sons and daughters of my people, and it is because of their iniquity and abominations that they are fallen.” The voice continued, “O all ye that are spared because ye were more righteous than they, will ye not now  return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, that I may heal you?” 3 Ne. 9:13
and a voice spoke from Heaven saying, “Behold  my Beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased, in whom I have glorified my name, hear ye him....
They cast their eyes up again towards heaven, and behold, they saw a  man  descending out of heaven...and he came down and stood in the midst of them...and he stretched forth his hand  and spake unto the people saying; behold I am Jesus Christ, whom  the prophets testified shall come into the world.”
PLEASE read all of Third Nephi at your earliest, right now  if you can. Jesus is the Christ!  

My love, Dad, Grandpa etc. Richard  Marden Pratt

The following is from a talk by Jeffrey R. Holland: This, The Greatest of All Dispensations (find it on lds.org)
“So let your hearts be comforted concerning Zion. And remember the most fundamental definition of Zion we have ever been given: those who are “pure in heart” (D&C 97:21). If you will keep your hearts pure, you and your children and your grandchildren shall sing songs of everlasting joy as you build up Zion—and you shall not be moved out of your place.
The other verse I refer to is from the Savior, spoken to His disciples as He faced His Crucifixion and as they faced fear, disarray, and persecution. In His last collective counsel to them in mortality, He said: “These things I have spoken unto you, that in me ye might have peace. In the world ye shall have tribulation: but be of good cheer; I have overcome the world” (John 16:33).
So, in a world of tribulation, let’s remember our faith. Let’s recall the other promises and prophecies that have been given, all the reassuring ones, and let’s live life more fully, with more boldness and courage than at any other time.
Christ has overcome the world and made a path for us. He has said to us in our day: “Gird up your loins and be prepared. Behold, the kingdom is yours, and the enemy shall not overcome” (D&C 38:9).




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