Great Britain Must Be Stopped
It would seem that many of us have an affinity for certain kinds of prognosticators. Nostradamus, for example, is a perennial favorite. I’ve studied every single one of his Quatrains, and they are discombobulated, ambiguous, and vague containing no specific details or predictions. Yet, in spite of this, he’s still considered a favorite.
Looking more closely to the present, we also have the firefighter turned prophet who predicted in 2011, that Donald Trump would become President. Apparently, he’s been received quite favorably as his story was first told in a book and then made into a movie.
There is also the Pastor who claimed to have predicted the attempted assassination of President Trump. Following the attempt in Butler, Pennsylvania, the internet was filled with the story of this Oklahoma Pastor named Brandon Dale Biggs. According to a number of news sources, Pastor Biggs “predicted the attempted assassination of Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump in eerie detail a month” prior to the attempt “claiming it came to him in a vision from God.”[1]
The details of the “vision” reported by one article stated that a “bullet flew by his [President Trump’s] ear, and it came so close to his head that it busted his eardrum.”[2]
The skeptic in me would just point out a couple of important details. First of all, talk of the “Deep State” assassinating President Trump was on everybody’s lips right up to the July 13, 2024 event, so, everyone knew that it was a real possibility. In fact, it was so obvious that several high-profile media professionals were talking about it including Tucker Carlson himself.[3]
Additionally, all three of the aforementioned prognosticators have been favorably received and received no public-wide skepticism. Yet, in the Bible, whenever a prediction was made on behalf of God, it was usually done in a hostile environment and in contrast to the prevailing opinions of the time. In other words, the Biblical prophets were usually out of step with the crowd in their predictions.
A good example of this occurred when “the king of Israel gathered the prophets together,” about 400 of them, to ask whether or not it was a good idea to go to war with the Syrians. All 400 of them “said, Go up: for the Lord shall deliver it into the hand of the king.”[4] This message, naturally, was well received by the King and pretty much everyone else at the time.
There was one outsider, however, named Micaiah, who contradicted the prevailing opinion. He said that engaging in war against Syria would be disastrous for the King of Israel. Going against the predetermined narrative has always been perilous no matter the time period, which is why so few ever attempt to do it. Micaiah was put into prison for his contrary views, even though it turned out to be the correct one. It was much the same for Jeremiah who predicted a Babylonian invasion much to the displeasure of the King and his court, so he was thrown into a pit under the Temple.
Elijah also predicted bad things coming to the King of Israel for which Queen Jezebel sought retribution. Elijah was forced to flee for his life into the wilderness where the ravens fed him. Isaiah told the King of Judah to stay out of political alliances and to trust in the Lord. Much like today, political alliances were a favorite back in Isaiah’s day. Legend has it that Isaiah was eventually cut in half by a wooden saw.
One has to wonder if there are similarities for these Bible stories today. We love Nostradamus, the Firefighter turned prophet, and Pastor Biggs, but are they just a recycling of the 400 prophets during Micaiah’s day? Like the 400, were the three prognosticators just telling us what we wanted to hear?
There is also the issue of accuracy. The attorney in me would expect more. Nostradamus is not specific at all and requires a great deal of bootstrapping just to try and get to some semblance of prophetic accuracy. Pastor Biggs “predicted” that the “bullet flew by his [President Trump’s] ear,” when the truth of the matter was that the bullet actually flew through his ear and not “by” it.
According to President Trump, he said that he was "shot with a bullet that pierced the upper part of my right ear."[5] This is an important detail that was left out of a prediction that purportedly came “from God.”
Another detail that fails the accuracy test was that Pastor Biggs “predicted” the bullet would be “so close” to President Trump’s head “that it busted his eardrum.” Again, one would expect exactness in a “prediction” received “from God.” Yet, there was never a report of any damage to President Trump’s eardrum from the bullet that pierced his ear that day.
In spite of these inaccurate details and the fact that there were already widely held expectations for such an assassination to take place, Pastor Biggs’ story was picked up by news outlets like the New York Post and spread all over the internet in a highly favorable light.
The critically thinking individual would wonder why there was no push back on this story given the inaccuracies. This is especially true, given the fact that the Biblical prophets, like Jeremiah and others, made far more accurate predictions against the prevailing winds of popular opinion to their detriment. The reward for their predictions was not public favor like it was for Pastor Biggs and the firefighter turned prophet. Jeremiah and others suffered rejection, consternation, prison, and even martyrdom, so why not these gentlemen?
Perhaps, one could argue that the prophecies made by the Biblical prophets were uttered a long time ago to very unsophisticated people, and that in today’s modern climate, we are much more enlightened, informed, and accepting. Let’s test this theory, then, shall we?
There was an individual who accurately predicted and published his prophecies. One of those published prophecies predicted a series of modern wars including specific details about those wars long before they broke out, and yet his message was not well received at all. In fact, he was hated, arrested 42 times without any convictions, imprisoned several times, and was finally shot to death while in prison waiting for another bogus trial. His name was Joseph Smith.
If today truly is more modern and accepting, why was Joseph Smith not well received despite the published accuracies of his predictions? In fact, Joseph Smith’s name still evokes a great deal of dislike, hatred, and spurious podcasts. Ironically enough, his name is actually the very subject of a very unlikely, but accurate prediction. Let me explain.
Joseph Smith was an obscure, uneducated 14-year-old farm boy living in upstate New York, when he claimed that an angel had visited him and told him, among other things, that his “name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.”[6]
Even the most jaded of individuals will have a difficult time trying to deny the unprecedented, literal fulfillment of that prediction especially those who hate him and speak hatefully about him because they are actually helping to fulfill the prophecy. The fact is, just as he predicted, people all over the world do, in fact, speak evil of Joseph Smith, while the reverse is true as well.
This prophesy is even more incredible when one considers the extreme, unlikely possibility that such a prediction could even come to pass for such an insignificant, uneducated farm boy living in upstate New York during the early 1800’s. There were no modern means of communication at the time. He had no formal education. The extent of his travels were minimal and confined mainly to NY, Ohio, Missouri, and Illinois. Yet, he is known throughout the world for both good and evil just as predicted.
There were many other predictions Joseph Smith made with significant detail and accuracy, but this discussion is only focused on the wars he predicted. In 1832, almost 30 years before it began, Joseph Smith predicted the U.S. Civil War in amazing detail -- “Verily, thus saith the Lord concerning the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning at the rebellion of South Carolina, which will eventually terminate in the death and misery of many souls . . . For behold, the Southern States shall be divided against the Northern States, and the Southern States will call on other nations, even the nation of Great Britain.”[7] Historians validate that the Southern States did call on Great Britain for help.[8]
Later, Joseph Smith disclosed these additional details to his prophecy -- “I prophesy, in the name of the Lord God, that the commencement of the difficulties which will cause much bloodshed previous to the coming of the Son of Man will be in South Carolina. It may probably arise through the slave question. This a voice declared to me, while I was praying earnestly on the subject, December 25th, 1832.”[9]
While his prophecy was made with astounding specificity and accuracy, no one in the media treated that prediction the same way they received Pastor Biggs’ inaccurate prediction. The firefighter turned prophet did not publish his “prediction” or start talking about it publicly until after it looked like Donald Trump was actually going to run for president. Joseph, on the other hand, published his prophecy years before war broke out.
In fact, the way Joseph was rewarded for making his predictions mirrored those of the old Bible prophets. For example, Governor Boggs of Missouri issued an Extermination Executive Order authorizing anyone in Missouri to kill Joseph Smith or his followers on sight. This is a fact, and it probably comes as a surprise to most, but this actually did happen in the United States of America, and it was not even rescinded until 1975!
Joseph Smith’s followers were driven from their homes and expelled from the United States into what was then Mexican Territory during the dead of winter in 1846. Sixteen years later, Civil War finally did break out just as Joseph Smith had predicted but the Latter-day Saints were spared of all the blood-letting. Finally, Joseph Smith was murdered in 1844 by an angry mob while he was imprisoned under more false pretenses.
The second part of his “wars” prophecy involved the outbreak of world war. Following his prediction that war would break out “at the rebellion of South Carolina”, Joseph wrote that “the time will come that war will be poured out upon all nations.”[10] Of course, no one was even talking about a world war in 1832, but Joseph Smith predicted it nonetheless. The prophecy also explained exactly when world war would break out – “Great Britain, as it is called, . . . shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations.”[11] This event is exactly how the first two World Wars began to break out.
By 1914, Great Britain was successful in forming the “Triple Entente” with Russia and France to protect itself against the “Triple Alliance” of Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. While some argue that these alliances were not the “sole cause of World War I”[12], the fact is that war was poured out upon all nations just as Joseph Smith predicted, soon after Great Britain called on other nations to defend itself against other nations with the “Triple Entente”. The prophecy doesn’t identify the cause of world war. It merely describes the timing.
The same was true of World War II. Great Britain called on the Allied powers to defend itself against the Axis powers of Germany, Italy, and Japan. Churchill also held secret meetings with FDR calling on him to bring the U.S. into the war.[13] In spite of the literal fulfillment of Joseph Smith’s world war prophecy, once again, he never received the firefighter turned prophet/Pastor Briggs’ treatment but was relegated to the fate of Micaiah and Jeremiah. Why is that, do you suppose?
I’ve never been one to base my opinions on popularity, preconceived notions, or prejudice. I am only interested in facts. In a prior article, I expressed “my fear . . . that history will repeat itself and that the so-called peace candidate will be the one who gets us into world war once again.”[14] Both Wilson and FDR ran on the promise of keeping the U.S. out of foreign wars. Yet, they both got us into the two world wars because they listened to Great Britain’s call to help them defend themselves against other nations.
LBJ trounced Goldwater playing up the peace card as well. Some of us are old enough to remember the infamous political commercial that depicts a young girl picking off the petals of a flower while counting. When she reaches the number 10, the scene gives way to a nuclear explosion thereby suggesting that a vote for Goldwater was a vote for nuclear war.[15] Yet, once again, it was LBJ, the peace candidate, who ramped up the Vietnam War, where we not only lost the war, but we also lost 48,399 American soldiers under his watch, which was almost half of what we lost in WWI.[16]
In his second Inaugural Address, President Trump declared that “My proudest legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I want to be — a peacemaker and a unifier.”[17] He then went on to explain how he expects to achieve his vision of ending all wars:
“We will again build the strongest military the world has ever seen. We will measure our success not only by the battles we win, but also by the wars that we end, and, perhaps most importantly, the wars we never get into.” He then concluded that “Our power will stop all wars.”[18]
Currently, the mood appears to be very much in favor of President Trump’s ability to bring peace and end war,[19] so anyone saying the opposite right now, unlike what happened in Pastor Biggs’ example, will be going against the prevailing opinion.
Again, it is important to question why there was no push back on the firefighter turned prophet or Pastor Biggs’ predictions? Perhaps, the answer can be found in the story of Micaiah, when King Ahab declared that “There is yet one man, Micaiah the son of Imlah, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he doth not prophesy good concerning me, but evil.”[20]
In other words, when someone tells us what we want to hear, we hail him as a prophet, and we will buy his books and watch his movies. On the other hand, no one likes to listen to someone tell us the things we don’t want to hear. People desperately wanting President Trump to win are going to receive anyone predicting his win favorably. Similarly, people also want peace and not war, so anyone predicting peace will also be well received.
Like Micaiah, Joseph Smith predicted what people didn’t want to hear. He predicted “the wars that will shortly come to pass, beginning with the rebellion of South Carolina,” which happened. Next, he predicted war “upon all nations.” World war, he prophesied, would be signaled by Great Britain’s efforts to “call upon other nations in order to defend themselves against other nations.” This has happened twice exactly as Joseph Smith predicted.
As an aside, it should be noted that we did not have world war break out during the Cold War, when it was most likely. The Cold War was never about Great Britain calling for the nations to defend itself against the Soviet Union. It was the United States pitted against the Soviet Union and, therefore, did not fit the prophecy so world war never came about. This was another testament to the accuracy of Joseph Smith’s war prophecy.
Unfortunately, today is a repeat of events prior to the two World Wars. It is a repeat of “the history of war in that quarter of the globe.”[21] In that quarter of the globe, Hamilton noted, there is a history “of towns taken and retaken; of battles that decide nothing; of retreats more beneficial than victories; of much effort and little acquisition.”[22] This not only describes the war in Ukraine perfectly, but the entire history of the European continent.
Recently, Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov said it best when he “criticized Europe, saying that for the past 500 years Europe had been the crucible of ‘all the tragedies of the world’ including colonization, wars, crusaders, the Crimean War, Napoleon Bonaparte, World War One and Adolf Hitler.”[23] Who can seriously argue against this analysis?
President Trump is now considering withdrawing support of Ukraine’s war against the Russians and their allies[24] and, right on que, the warmongering Great Britain through its current Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, embraced Zelensky and promised “boots on the ground and planes in the air”[25] in Ukraine.
Starmer went on to claim that “Europe must do the heavy lifting to secure peace on our continent”[26] and, once again, Great Britain called on other nations to hold “an emergency meeting” in order to rally support from those nations to defend Europe against Russia. Apparently, this “heavy lifting” will be accomplished through a “coalition of the willing [by] sending troops to Ukraine to enforce a ceasefire.”[27] It should be noted that Great Britain is not technically calling on other nations to defend itself, but clearly it is headed in that direction as anyone can see.
For example, in response to Starmer, “Moscow has strongly opposed the deployment of Western troops to Ukraine, warning that without a UN mandate, they would be considered legitimate targets. It [Moscow] has also repeatedly ruled out temporary ceasefires similar to the failed Minsk agreements, insisting on a permanent, legally binding deal that addresses the root causes of the conflict.”[28] According to another source, “Russia has previously said foreign troops in Ukraine is a casus bello [which is defined as an act or an event that is used to justify war].”[29]
Given all of the history coupled with Joseph Smith’s war prophecies which have been validated on three different occasions now, we need to wake up, throw our prejudices aside, and stop world war from happening again.
Adding more urgency to the situation, it was just reported that President Putin gave a speech wherein he warned that “Today, again, in the European Union and NATO member states, there are calls for a ‘war against Russia.’ We can say again that history always repeats itself. Always!”[30] He then gave this chilling warning “Today, Russia has all kinds of weapons in the current history of the world, I emphasize. (I add: you have no idea.) . . . No matter how much you repeat that one day Russia will be defeated... I believe in God, and God is with us. The world may end earlier, but Russia will not fall . . . And today's war against Russia would be an absolute apocalypse.”[31]
The only way President Trump’s “legacy will be that of a peacemaker and unifier” is for him to forget Zelensky -- he means nothing! President Trump must not only cut off all aid to Ukraine but to the EU as well. He needs to personally engage with Great Britain to convince them to back off the well-worn road to world war.
If they refuse, President Trump should threaten them with sanctions and tariffs. Great Britain is clearly the key to stopping a world war from happening again. This needs to be President Trump’s focus. Their efforts need to be stopped or we are going to have world war again and very soon, but this time it will be with nukes and whatever “kinds of weapons” President Putin is warning us that he possesses.
We need to tread carefully just as the Preacher warned “That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.” (Eccl. 3:15)
Madame Publius
[1] https://nypost.com/2024/07/20/us-news/youtuber-eerily-predicted-trump-assassination-attempt-months-ago/
[2] Id.
[3] https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/tucker-carlson-claim-trump-assassinated-b2402164.html
[4] 1 Kings 22:6
[5] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-says-shots-pierced-injured-ear-rally-pennsylvania/ (emphasis added)
[6] Pearl of Great Price, JS-H 1:33
[7] Doctrine and Covenants 87:1,3
[8] One site explains that the Southern States did call on Great Britain for help during the Civil War but that Great Britain remained neutral. Joseph’s prophecy did not say they helped only that the Southern States asked for help. https://www.answers.com/us-history/Did_Southern_States_request_help_from_Great_Britain_in_the_Civil_War
[9] Doctrine and Covenants 130:12,13
[10] Doctrine and Covenants 87:1,2
[11] Doctrine and Covenants 87:3
[12] https://www.thoughtco.com/world-war-one-the-major-alliances-1222059
[13] https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/months-pearl-harbor-churchill-and-roosevelt-secret-meeting-180964435/
[14] Madame Publius, Flaunting Our Beams As We Go Abroad In Search Of Monsters To Destroy, Oct. 30, 2024.
[15] https://thebulletin.org/virtual-tour/president-lyndon-b-johnson-and-the-daisy-girl-nuclear-war-commercial/
[16] https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/letters/2016/03/15/which-party-responsible-most-war-casualties/81845842/ If you combine LBJ’s numbers with Nixon’s (21,194), the total number of soldiers lost in Vietnam was 69,593 making it almost 60% of the total number of American soldiers’ lives lost in WWI.
[17] https://www.timesofisrael.com/peacemaker-and-unifier-trump-hails-gaza-deal-in-his-second-inaugural-address/
[18] Id.
[19] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/02/russians-gearing-up-historical-peace-talks-trump-team/ “it’s unsurprising that the eagerly awaited Peace Negotiations with Russia are also moving at warp speed. . . and usher in a period of peace and cooperation between the two Nuclear Powers.”
[20] 1 Kings 22:8
[21] Hamilton, The Federalist Papers, Ltr. 8, ¶2
[22] Id.
[23] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/russian-foreign-minister-lavrov-praises-trumps-common-sense/
[24] https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2025/03/america-will-not-put-up-it-much-longer/
[25] Id.
[26] https://www.rt.com/news/613627-uk-troops-deployment-ukraine/
[27] https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/peace-our-dime
[28] https://www.rt.com/news/613627-uk-troops-deployment-ukraine/
[29] https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/peace-our-dime
[30] https://halturnerradioshow.com/index.php/news-selections/world-news/something-is-going-wrong-putin-gives-chilling-speech-the-world-may-end-earlier-but-russia-will-never-fall
[31] Id. (emphasis added)