Scoffers will get to see it happen.
They will watch it happen
and still not believe me.
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Parowan
Prophet predicts end of world
Death of LDS
Prophet will spur nuclear Armageddon
Leland
Freeborn, the "Parowan Prophet" emerges from his bomb shelter . |
By Paul Garcia | features editor
March 26, 2003
The temperature along the
Wasatch Front will be 11 million degrees at the end of the world if Leland
Freeborn is accurate.
Freeborn, self-proclaimed Parowan Prophet from Parowan, Utah, claims to have
seen the end of the world. After a plane wreck 20 years ago, Freeborn was in
a coma, which he said started his prophetic visions. During his coma, he
said God showed him the end of the world, which began with World War III.
According to Freeborn, the end of the world begins when Russia launches
nuclear missiles over the North Pole -- with Hill Air Force Base as a
target.
'I've
never lived through an explosion,' Freeborn said. 'But I've
stood in the fire [in a vision], I've smelled the
smoke, I've felt the blast and the wind. God has
realistic videos that are fantastic.'
Freeborn's visions get grimmer.
'One million will die between Brigham City and St. George,' he said. 'If you
live beyond 10 miles of Hill Air Force Base don't
let the sun go down without a full tank of gas.' He suggested going there
because Cache Valley won't suffer as much damage
as the rest of northern Utah.
Freeborn said Russia will
attack because it thinks America is the modern-day Babylon, the center of
wealth and cruelty. With U.S. forces in Iraq, America cannot defend itself
and its ammunition dumps. In fact, the United States will have problems
defending itself in Operation Iraqi Freedom; it has underestimated Iraq's
strength.
'We will lose tens of thousands of our military,' Freeborn said. 'In less
than six weeks, we will use nukes.'
In a 1988 vision, an angel
took Freeborn to Babylon. There, Saddam Hussein has an underground germ
warfare complex. To destroy it, the United States will use nuclear bombs,
killing thousands.
Freeborn said Russia is waiting for Gordon B. Hinckley, president of the
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, to die before striking.
'I cannot tell you why God does what he does,' Freeborn said. 'I only have
to make some suppositions.'
In times of turmoil, it isn't unusual for people
to think about the end of the world, said Jeff Hurst,
Weber State University's counseling and
psychological services director.
'They could see prophecies of the end of the world with these events,' he
said.
Science speaks up
Amid Freeborn's predictions of nuclear
Armageddon, Applied Geotechnical Engineering Consultants, Inc. geologist
Michael Davis has a scientific stance on the state of the
4.5-billion-year-old planet.
'There are very few natural events that could bring about an "end of the
world" scenario such as an impact with a celestial object,' Davis said. This
is what happened to the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. He pointed out that
the world did not end entirely.
'And the world continued, although for the dinosaurs it was the end,' he
said.
If a nuclear catastrophe were to occur, the bombs" targets would be
destroyed due to the pressure of the explosion Davis said. The attack would
cause a nuclear winter where debris and dust block the sunlight, prevent
photosynthesis, would decrease temperatures and cause mass extinction of
life.
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Freeborn claims Russia will launch a nuclear assault against America, he
said the sickle will reap the earth. |
Religions speak out
The LDS Church
believes in the 'latter-days': the belief in the end of the world, and the
beginning of the millennium. This is a time of peace; when Jesus will come
again.
'Before he comes, there will be events that will be quite dramatic or
dynamic,' said Ronald Zollinger, Ogden LDS Institute of Religion instructor.
'He called these events "the last days."'
Members also believe Christ
predicted men such as Freeborn would call themselves prophets.
'Christ said there would be false prophets and some people will be deceived
by them,' Zollinger said.
While Zollinger does not agree with Freeborn, he said it is of interest for
followers of the LDS religion to read what Freeborn has to say because it
will bolster their own faith in their prophet -- Hinckley.
Freeborn is used to those kinds of statements.
'I
would love to be a false prophet,' he said. 'Wonderful, great, if millions
of people go on living that's great.'
While the Roman Catholic Church believes in the Parousiah, Greek for the
second coming, they do differ somewhat from the LDS view. Unlike LDS doctrine,
which says the second coming has been foretold, Catholics do not know when
it will come.
'Who knows, maybe he is here right now, we ought to treat everyone as if he
was Jesus Christ in person,' said Father Charles T. Cummings, Newman Center
director.
He said people should live every day like it's the
last.
'If we live every day the best we can in our creator's
eyes, we don't have to worry about the end of the
world,' Cummings said. 'Fear will cripple us more than getting hit by a
car.'
Doing what seems right
'I used to cry a lot more than I do now,' Freeborn said about the
disbelief of others in regards to his visions.
In Parowan, he is well known by most of the town's
2,500 residents for his visions and warnings to prepare.
Parowan Police Chief Wayne Townsend said Freeborn is an interesting member
of the community.
"They [city council] may think his intentions are
good, but they don't take what he has to say to
heart,' Townsend said of Freeborn's warnings.
As visions come, Freeborn sits in his 127-year-old house and places
information about what he has seen on the Internet for others. In his eyes,
he has done all he can; it is up to individuals to prepare or perish.
'People don't want to hear what I have to say
because I've got a somber, sad message about the start of World War III and
the destruction of 100 million people in the United States.'
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Time after time I keep telling
reporters that I have never said the world is going to end. But that does not
catch the eyes of the scoffers. They want a catchy headline.
So what do you think will happen after we lose
thousands of our soldiers? We will realize that
this “is
war”
and we have to fight to win
or we all shall be killed. Then
Iraq will get “Nuked” and millions die, as I have said
on radio programs since the 1988 revelation that I received. That
the fallout will pass over into Iran and kill people
there also. In this war,
“who”
do you want to die? Them or us? Then Iranian
troops in the North will try to out-flank the US Military and much blood will be
shed in Kurdish country in the north. President Bush has said that Iran is part
of “the Axis of Evil” in the past and they know it. They will unite with their
fellow Muslims in Turkey, and will really fight against us, as Egypt will also.
When Russia has Nuked the USA the entire Moslem world of a billion people will
fight us. All of our efforts to help our enemies with humanitarian needs will
be forgotten. They will be out for our blood and death; so they don’t need us
at all.
What good is a watchdog that can’t bark? Or a prophet that
doesn’t tell you what will happen? Realize that
God controls the weather. Just as he makes a prophet.
“And if the prophet
be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the
LORD have deceived that prophet, and I will
stretch out my hand upon
him, and will destroy him
from the midst of my people Israel.
10
And
they shall bear the
punishment of their iniquity: the punishment of
the prophet shall be even as
the punishment of him that seeketh unto him.”
Ezekiel 14: 9-10
You don’t have to ask me! Get your own
revelations. You will bring your own death. I
have tried to warn you.
See Isaiah 28
the entire chapter,
and
hypocrites
take notice.
Also
Ezekiel 34: 1-15 if you care about living
another year.
“Do not brethren, put your trust in man though he be a bishop, an apostle, or a
president.
If you do, they will fail you at some time or place;
they will do wrong or seem to, and your support is gone;
but if we lean on God, He never will
fail us. When men and women depend on God alone, and trust in Him alone, their
faith will not be shaken if the highest in the Church should step aside.
Perhaps it is His own design that faults and weaknesses should appear in high
places in order that His
Saints may learn to trust in Him, and not in any man
or
men.” George Q. Cannon, Millennial Star, 53:
674
“We can see now that a few who
have relied upon others, who have sought the counsel of their file leaders and
have depended upon that counsel when they can no longer reach those
leaders,
falter and fall by the wayside.
I believe that God intends that every
man and every woman in His Church and kingdom shall exercise the faculties which
He has given them, that in the exercise of their agency He designs to exalt them
in eternal glory. So long
therefore as
the people rely upon
their leaders
they are
not
manifesting that degree of faith, they are
not
in a position to think and reflect for themselves
as
they should.” Journal
of Discourses 26: 328
Apostle Moses Thatcher, October 8, 1885
“The ancient and
honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that
teacheth lies, he is the tail.
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16 For the leaders of
this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.” Isaiah
9: 15-16
“The prophets prophesy falsely,
and the priests bear rule by their means;
and my people love to have it so:
and what will ye do in the end thereof?”
Jeremiah 5: 31
“There is a conspiracy of her
prophets
in the midst thereof, like a
roaring lion ravening the prey; they have devoured souls;
they have taken the
treasure and precious
things; they have
made her many widows in
the midst thereof.
26
Her priests
have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things:
they have put no difference
between the holy and profane,
neither have
they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean,
and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths,
and I am profaned among them. CLICK HERE
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27
Her
princes in the midst
thereof are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and
to destroy souls, to
get dishonest gain.
28 And her
prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing
vanity, and
divining
lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord GOD, when the LORD hath not
spoken.” Ezekiel 22: 25-28
There are whole quorums of pretend,
fake, phony, false prophets.
“For it shall come to pass that the inhabitants
of Zion shall
judge
all things pertaining to Zion.
39
And liars
and
hypocrites
shall be proved by them,
and they who are
not
apostles and prophets
shall be known.”
Doctrine and Covenants
64: 38-39
So now go back and read current leaders comments and compare the Facts with what
the good old-timers, pioneer leaders said.
“Therefore shalt
thou fall
in the day, and
the
prophet also
shall fall with thee in the night,
and I will destroy
thy mother.
(Church)
My people are destroyed for lack of
knowledge:
because thou
hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee,
that thou shalt be no priest
to me: seeing thou
hast forgotten the law
of thy God, I will also forget thy children.” Hosea
4: 5-6
“O Lord, I have trusted in thee, and I will trust in thee forever.
I will not put my trust in the arm of flesh;
for I know that cursed is he that putteth his trust in the arm of flesh. Yea,
cursed is he that putteth his
trust in man or maketh flesh his arm.
35 Yea, I know that God will give liberally to him that
asketh. Yea, my God will give me, if I ask not amiss;
therefore I will lift up my voice unto thee; yea, I will cry unto thee, my God,
the rock of my righteousness. Behold, my voice
shall forever ascend up unto thee, my rock and mine everlasting God.”
2Nephi 4: 34-35
“. . . if anything should have
been suggested by us, or any names mentioned, except by commandment, or thus
saith the Lord, we do not consider it binding.”
TPJS 136 Joseph Smith, Documented
History of the Church.” Volume 3: 295
“O Israel,
thy prophets are like
the foxes in the deserts.
5
Ye have
not gone up into the
gaps, neither made
up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in
the battle in the day of the LORD.
6
They have seen
vanity and lying divination, saying, The LORD saith:
and the LORD hath not
sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.
7
Have ye not seen a
vain vision, and have ye not spoken a
lying divination, whereas ye say, The LORD saith
it; albeit I have not
spoken?
8
Therefore thus saith
the Lord GOD;
Because ye have spoken vanity, and seen lies, therefore,
behold, I
am against you, saith the Lord GOD.
9
And mine hand shall
be upon the prophets that see vanity, and that divine lies:
they shall not be
in the assembly of my people, neither
shall they be written in the writing of the house of Israel,
neither shall they enter
into the land of Israel; and ye shall know that I am the Lord GOD.
10
Because, even
because they have seduced my people, saying, Peace; and there
was
no peace; and
one built up a wall, and, lo, others daubed it with untempered mortar.”
Ezekiel 13: 4-10
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Peace.
“And their
houses shall be turned unto
others, with their fields and wives
together: for I
will stretch out my hand upon the inhabitants of the land, saith the LORD.
13 For from the least
of them even unto the greatest
of them every one is
given to covetousness; and from the
prophet
even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
14 They have healed
also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying,
Peace, peace; when there is
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Jeremiah 6: 12-15 Peace CLICK HERE
&
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“... I told them that a prophet
was a prophet only
when he was acting as
such.” Joseph Smith in
Teaching of the Prophet Joseph Smith 278 Also Documentary History of the
Church, 5: 268
“Behold, you have been entrusted with these things,
but how strict were your commandments; and remember also the promises which were
made to you, if you
did not transgress them.
6 And behold,
how oft you have transgressed the commandments and the
laws of God, and have gone on in the
persuasions of men.
7 For, behold,
you should not have
feared man more
than God. Although men set at naught
the counsels of God, and despise his words-
8
Yet you should have been
faithful; and
he would have extended his arm and supported you against all the
fiery darts
(missiles)
of the adversary; and he would have been with you
in every time of trouble.
9 Behold, thou art
Joseph, and thou wast chosen to do the work of
the Lord, but because of transgression, if thou art not aware thou wilt
fall.
10
But remember,
God is merciful;
therefore,
repent of that which thou hast done which is contrary to the commandment which I gave you, and thou art still chosen, and art again
called to the work;
11 Except thou do
this, thou shalt be delivered up and become as
other men, and have no more gift.”
Doctrine and Covenants 3:5-11 What was said to Joseph should
apply to each of us. Will you truly repent? Or die soon?
“There is not any person belonging to the church
who is exempt from this council of the church.
82 And
inasmuch as a President of
the High Priesthood shall transgress, he shall be had in remembrance before
the common council of the church, who shall be assisted by twelve counselors of
the High Priesthood.” Doctrine and Covenants
107: 81-82
Today hypocritical leaders
and teachers lead millions to
their death. They don't believe what true prophets say. They reject it.
“We should
gather all the good and true principles
in the world and treasure them up,
or we shall not come out true Mormons.”
Joseph Smith,
Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith
page 316
Now on the Internet March 26, 2003 at 9 a.m. Utah time.
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watch for some.
So do you really want to be a "true Mormon?"
What does that mean?
Definition of "Mormon" and Language of the Book of Mormon.
"The error I speak of
is the definition of the word
Mormon.
It has been stated that this word was derived from the
Greek word mormo. This is
not the case. There was
no Greek or Latin upon
the plates from which I, through the grace of the Lord, translated the Book of
Mormon. Let the language of the book speak for itself.
On the 523rd page of the fourth edition, it reads: "And now, behold we have
written this record according to our knowledge in the characters which are
called among us the Reformed Egyptian, being handed down and altered by us,
according to our manner of speech; and if our plates had been sufficiently
large, we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us
also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no
imperfection in our record, but the Lord knoweth the things which we have
written, and also that none other people knoweth our language; therefore he hath
prepared means for the interpretation thereof."
"Here, then, the subject is put to silence; for "none
other people knoweth our language"; therefore the Lord, and not man, had to
interpret, after the people were all dead. And, as Paul
said, "The world by wisdom know not God"; so the world by speculation are
destitute of revelation; and as God in his superior wisdom has always
given his Saints, wherever he had any on the earth; the same spirit, and that
spirit, as John says is the true spirit of prophecy, which is the testimony of
Jesus. I may safely say that the word Mormon stands
independent of the wisdom and learning of this generation. . . .
The word
Mormon, means literally, more good.
(HC 5:399-400.)
(Joseph Smith, Discourses
of the Prophet Joseph Smith, compiled by Alma P. Burton [Salt Lake City:
Deseret Book Co., 1977], page 244.)
Will you do your friends more good
or scoff at a prophet?
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