I will prophesy that the Saints will continue to suffer much affliction, and will be driven to and fro, from the east to the west, and from the north to the south, until they are purified.
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"I am a man of God, and I will stand for the truth, though the heavens fall."
"I am a man of faith, and I will live by faith to the end."
"I am a rough stone. The sound of the hammer and chisel is continually upon me. I desire the voice of the Lord to ring in my ears, and I am willing to bear the consequence."
"I am a warm advocate of the cause of humanity."
"I am a man of brotherly kindness, and I will be kind to all men."
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Smith predicts that his followers—the Latter-day Saints—will face relentless persecution and forced displacement, scattered across the entire American landscape. The affliction is not meaningless; it serves a divine refining purpose, burning away weakness until the community emerges spiritually strengthened. He frames suffering not as failure but as necessary preparation, a trial that God permits to purify believers before they reach their promised destiny.
This prophecy directly mirrors Smith's lived experience. He founded the LDS Church in 1830 in New York, then led followers through forced expulsions from Ohio, Missouri—where Governor Boggs issued a literal extermination order—and finally Illinois, where Smith was murdered in a Carthage jail in 1844. His identity as a revelatory prophet meant suffering validated, not undermined, his mission. Endurance through persecution was core to his theology of covenant and divine favor.
The 1830s–1840s United States was gripped by religious revivalism, anti-Mormon vigilantism, and aggressive westward expansion. New religious movements faced violent mob suppression. Missouri's governor ordered Mormons exterminated in 1838. Anti-Mormon riots in Illinois culminated in Smith's 1844 murder. The prophecy of geographic displacement proved literally accurate—after his death, Brigham Young led roughly 70,000 Saints 1,300 miles west to Utah in 1846–47 to finally escape sustained persecution.
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