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).
