Media Review: The Forgotten Civil War Order that No One Talks About: Fulfilment of Joseph Smith Prophecy

 The Forgotten Civil War Order that No One Talks About:, Book of Mormon Evidence interview by Rod Meldrum with Craig Dunn, 2025.  Two men talking about the Civil War as fulfillment of prophesy in D&C section 121 where the Lord indicated that the treatment that had been heaped upon the Saints would be returned again to the residents of Jackson County.  

D&C 121. 13 Also because their hearts are corrupted, and the things which they are willing to bring upon others, and love to have others suffer, may come upon themselves to the very uttermost;

14 That they may be disappointed also, and their hopes may be cut off;

15 And not many years hence, that they and their posterity shall be swept from under heaven, saith God, that not one of them is left to stand by the wall.

16 Cursed are all those that shall lift up the heel against mine anointed, saith the Lord, and cry they have sinned when they have not sinned before me, saith the Lord, but have done that which was meet in mine eyes, and which I commanded them.

17 But those who cry transgression do it because they are the servants of sin, and are the children of disobedience themselves.

18 And those who swear falsely against my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death—

19 Wo unto them; because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances of mine house.

20 Their basket shall not be full, their houses and their barns shall perish, and they themselves shall be despised by those that flattered them.

21 They shall not have right to the priesthood, nor their posterity after them from generation to generation.

22 It had been better for them that a millstone had been hanged about their necks, and they drowned in the depth of the sea.

23 Wo unto all those that discomfort my people, and drive, and murder, and testify against them, saith the Lord of Hosts; a generation of vipers shall not escape the damnation of hell.

24 Behold, mine eyes see and know all their works, and I have in reserve a swift judgment in the season thereof, for them all;

25 For there is a time appointed for every man, according as his works shall be.

This prophecy was restated by Joseph Smith to Alexander Doniphan, Smith's lawyer in Liberty, Missouri.  Talking of Jackson County, and a proposed trade of land in Jackson county for a debt owed Doniphan,  Joseph Smith said to Doniphan, "“Doniphan, I advise you not to take that Jackson County land in payment of the debt. God’s wrath hangs, over Jackson County. God’s people have been ruthlessly driven from it and you will live to see the day when it will be visited by fire and sword. The Lord of Hosts will sweep it with the besom of destruction. The fields and farms and houses will be destroyed, and only the chimneys will be left to mark the desolation.”

D&C 121 and the prophecy to Doniphan were both in 1838.  The Saints were expelled from Jackson County in 1833.  

Western Missouri  had more skirmishes and battles than any other place in the Civil War.  In fact blood shed exported from Jackson County preceded the war with the Bloody Kansas skirmishes.  During the war the bushwackers and the Red Legs from Kansas fought back and forth.  It was after the raid on Lawrence Kansas that order ii was given.  Quantrill and his raiders attacked Lawrence Kansas and killed over 199 men and children--anyone who could fire a gun.  After this attack the Union said they had had enough and something had to be done.  Order 11 was the result.  Three counties were to be vacated and burned.

This video says only Jackson county was effected but there were actually three counties and part of a fourth.  A memorial in Harrisonville, Missouri shows a chimney represting only the chimneys were left after order 11 in 1863.  What a manifestation of the fulfillment of prophecy.

Book of Mormon External Evidence: Documentary Review: Hidden in the Heartland (2016)

This is a series of ten episodes over two seasons.  It starts each episode with the statement that if you peel back the archeology of the Americas you just might find the Book of Mormon.

Episode 1: Who Are the Mound Builders.  This episode points out that the time line of the Hopewell Mound builders matches the timeline of the Nephites of the Book of Mormon.  hey start in as early as 600 B.C. in Florida and then disappear in upstate New York in 400 A.D.  There are significant number of sites which include religious sites, burial mounds, and fortifications.  There are up to a million mound sites in North America, but many have been destroyed, plowed under, or not yet identified.  Wayne May, Rod Meldrum.

Episode 2: The Origin of the Central American Model.  How did we become convinced that the Book of Mormon took place Central America.  This points back to an article in the Times and Seasons which was edited by Joseph Smith.  However questions exist as to his actual involvement of this article.  This is compared to his and Oliver Cowdery saying things happened in North America.  Jonathan Nelville

Episode 3: Manifest Destiny.  This presents the claim that the U.S. government and the Smithsonian Institute under the direction of John Wesley Powell deliberately destroyed evidence or called any evidence outside the narrative fraud.  Any artifact before Columbus had to be fake.  This was to justify the concept of Manifest Destiny and the idea that the Native Americans were savages.

Episode 4: Hebrew in America.  Artifacts with Hebrew have been discovered in North America.  The Bat Creek Stone was discovered and thought to be ancient Cherokee.  However a linguist turned it up side down and said it is ancient Hebrew.  Scholars consider it a fake.  The Los Lunas Decalogue Stone is claimed by some to be the ten commandments in Hebrew.  Again this is refuted.  There is another Decalogue stone with the ten commandments written on all sides of it in Hebrew.  Lastly there is a mound which was recorded but then destroyed, which shows a menora and an oil lamp.

Episode 5: The Great Earthquake of 1811-1812.  Centered around New Madrid, Missouri along the Mississippi River there were a series of earthquakes which created events which mimic the destruction in the Book of Mormon at the time of Christ's death.  There was darkness, the Mississippi flowed backwards, lakes were drained and lakes were formed, there were sand geysers, there was fire and cities destroyed.

Episode 6: America the Covenant Land.  George Washington talked about America as the covenant land, and Abraham Lincoln checked out the Book of Mormon from the Library of Congress.  Joseph Smith had been assassinated while running for president on an abolitionist platform 16 years prior to Lincoln being president.  Tim Ballard explains the idea of America being a covenant land.

Episode 7: The Kinderhook Plates.  Joseph Smith was presented with some plates people said they found in a mound.  Joseph Smith at first glance said they were authentic; however he never translated them.  These plates disappeared, but once has since been found.  However this plate does not match any of the etchings made of the plates.  It is now said to be a great hoax.

Season 2

Episode 1: Crossing the Seas.  It has now been shown that ocean travel was possible using ancient means.  Phillip Beale constructed a boat using ancient tools and materials after the pattern of the Phoenicians.  He was able to circumnavigate Africa; however in his journey he almost landed in America, close to Florida.  He later did travel to America from the Mediterranean.  

Episode 2: The 2-Hill Cumorah Theory.  This episode confronts the impracticality of the Book of Mormon taking place in Meso America, but the plates being found in the Hill Cumorah in New York.  This movie documents that people have taken artifacts from the Hill Cumorah area for years and years.  Bucket loads of arrow heads and other artifacts have been hauled away.  There is a book store in Palmyra with a small museum of artifacts.  

Episode 3: Archeoastronomy.  In this episode we see comparison of the mounds to Stone Henge, which has been shone to have astronomical properties.  The same is true of the mounds, incuding the Serpent Mound.

This series is narrated by Scott Christopher.  It is available on LDS Scriptures.  I really enjoyed this series.  Of course a true testimony comes through the Holy Ghost and applying Moroni's promise.  However it is good to know that evidences to the Book of Mormon are more and more prevalent