Mormon Prophet Gordon B Hinckley saw a Plague!

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The story behind the story of Dr. Skousen is very interesting and I hope will be of some benefit to others. It goes like this:
Dr. Skousen is an avid reader of the Book of Mormon. He read in 3 Nephi chapter 16 and 21 wherein the Savior says that if the Gentiles of the last days don't repent of their sins, among them being the sin of upholding secret combinations, then the remnant of the land, consisting of the lamanites, will go through the Gentiles as a lion among the beasts of the forest and they will destroy the Gentiles. But if they repent, that won't happen.

Well, Dr. Skousen composed a talk about the subject and began telling that talk about how the Lamanites and their cousins, the Mexicans, would come among the Gentiles and destroy them in the last days. And of course, with the talk among Mexican-Americans going around that they say they are going to reclaim southwest America, and call it "Aztlan," there seems to be a lot of evidence that that could happen.

Dr. Skousen told my friend that one day he heard that a General Authority had heard his talk and began using that talk himself. Who he was Dr. Skousen never said. But this GA gave that talk a lot for awhile. Then, according to Dr. Skousen, President Hinckley told the GA not to give that talk anymore because that's not the scenario that will play out. President Hinckley told Dr. Skousen that he should go back and read the part in 3 Nephi 21:22 which says, "But if they will repent and hearken unto my words, and harden not their hearts...." then, to summarize, the scenario about the remnant of Jacob going through and destroying them won't happen.
So Dr. Skousen asked President Hinckley, "What will make the gentiles repent?" And President Hinckley replied, "A plague." He was told to go home and read about the plague in Section 29 of the D&C, verses 18 and 19. Then he said, read D&C 112:24-26 about how the plague shall start. Dr. Skousen firmly believed that America would never be invaded from without

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I personally would not trust anything Dr. Skousen says. My wife had a strange dream several months ago about our home filled with aggressive biting flies being an intolerable nuisance. Maybe she was just dreaming about me, or about our 4 teenage daughters? Perhaps it confirms the scripture? Well Its probably just as reliable as Dr. Skousen.

[Paul A Drockton M.A.]

Interesting. Why don't you trust Dr. Skousen?

[charkee]

I'm sorry Paul, I don't remember the exact reason I don't trust Dr. Skousen, I do recall that he made some comments that struck me that he may have some sympathies with the Illuminati. ( I can't judge if it be willful or out of ignorance) From then on I put him on my "handle with caution list".

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I never actually met Dr. Skousen but I used to work for a video company that produced a lot of his videos and had access to quite a bit of his writings. This was 15 years ago and much of what he talked about as come to pass concerning the dismantling of the Constitution and the US becoming more and more socialist. One of the things that really struck a chord with me in one of the videos was where he compared the Constitution to the Communist Manifesto and how different they were. Yet, and remember this was 15 years ago when I saw this and the video I was working was at least 5 years old at the time, the striking part was showing how the similarities of how the US was being run and the direction things were going were more inline with the Communist Manifesto than with the Constitution.

I can't really comment on his interpretation of scripture prophecies, but he always seemed spot on when it came to the topics of freedom, liberty, and independence.