Summarizing Joseph Smith’s teaching delivered on April 2, 1843, William Claton recorded that:
Once when prest. Joseph was praying earnestly to know concerning the wars which are to preceed the coming of the son of man, he heard a voice proclaim that the first outbreak of general bloodshed would commence at South Carolina— see Revelation (Instruction,
April 2, 1843, as Reported by William Clayton, emphasis added)
This
indicates that Joseph Smith did not believe that the fulfillment of his
prophecy, received December 15, 1832 (canonized now as D&C 87) would be
exhausted by the then-future U.S. Civil War; instead, it would be “the first
outbreak of general bloodshed.”
Further
Reading:
