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By A Thread: Foreword by Ben McClintock, cofounder of Defending Utah at defendingutah.org.
In 1840, Joseph Smith said, when referring to the redemption of Zion, “Even this nation will be on the verge of crumbling to pieces and tumbling to the ground and when the Constitution is on the brink of ruin, this people will be the staff upon which the nation shall lean and they shall bear the Constitution away from the very verge of destruction.”
Eliza R. Snow, James Burgess, Brigham Young, and Orson Hyde all recalled Joseph Smith saying that the United States Constitution would one day hang, as it were, by a thread or by a single hair, that the elders of the church would one day step forth to rescue and save it. Over one hundred years later, Ezra Taft Benson questioned how any of the elders of the church could be expected to save it if they have not even studied it, or whether they are even sure it is being destroyed, and how it is being destroyed.
This book explores Joseph Smith’s presidential candidacy with relation to the persecution of the Latter-day Saints by mobs, the failure of the Saints to redeem Zion, the persecution of the South by an encroaching despotic government, and the nature of dictators, tyrants, and despots who combine to overthrow the liberty of societies and bring them into subjugation.
Furthermore, the prophet Isaiah foresaw the glorious redemption of Zion, but if the Constitution has no chance to be saved, how can any follower of Jesus Christ hope to labor freely to redeem Zion as the Saints in Joseph Smith’s day attempted? If followers of Jesus Christ do not understand their role in fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy and if the elders of the church do not understand their role in saving the Constitution or in redeeming Zion, where does that leave the nation? These questions are also explored in this book and offer the reader food for thought and introspection.
Eliza R. Snow, James Burgess, Brigham Young, and Orson Hyde all recalled Joseph Smith saying that the United States Constitution would one day hang, as it were, by a thread or by a single hair, that the elders of the church would one day step forth to rescue and save it. Over one hundred years later, Ezra Taft Benson questioned how any of the elders of the church could be expected to save it if they have not even studied it, or whether they are even sure it is being destroyed, and how it is being destroyed.
This book explores Joseph Smith’s presidential candidacy with relation to the persecution of the Latter-day Saints by mobs, the failure of the Saints to redeem Zion, the persecution of the South by an encroaching despotic government, and the nature of dictators, tyrants, and despots who combine to overthrow the liberty of societies and bring them into subjugation.
Furthermore, the prophet Isaiah foresaw the glorious redemption of Zion, but if the Constitution has no chance to be saved, how can any follower of Jesus Christ hope to labor freely to redeem Zion as the Saints in Joseph Smith’s day attempted? If followers of Jesus Christ do not understand their role in fulfilling Isaiah’s prophecy and if the elders of the church do not understand their role in saving the Constitution or in redeeming Zion, where does that leave the nation? These questions are also explored in this book and offer the reader food for thought and introspection.
149 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 24, 2021
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