Glenn Beck suggests Ted Cruz will fulfill Mormon end times prophecy

Radio and television personality Glenn Beck speaks to a gathering at FreePAC Kentucky, Saturday, April 5, 2014, at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Radio and television personality Glenn Beck speaks to a gathering at FreePAC Kentucky, Saturday, April 5, 2014, at the Kentucky International Convention Center in Louisville, Ky. (AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley) Photo: Timothy D. Easley, Associated Press Photo: Timothy D. Easley, Associated Press Image 1 of / 33 Caption Close Glenn Beck suggests Ted Cruz will fulfill Mormon end times prophecy 1 / 33 Back to Gallery

In the days before Tuesday's Utah Republican caucus, supporters on the campaign trail of Ted Cruz have offered a novel appeal: that the Texas senator could fulfill a Mormon end times prophecy.

The comments were first reported by the Salt Lake City Tribune Saturday from a campaign rally in Utah, the only U.S. state with a Mormon majority, and a state where Cruz stands a good chance of passing the 50 percent threshold to win a full slate of delegates.

Die-hard Cruz supporter and media icon Glenn Beck, who the website LDS Living calls "one of the most influential Mormons in the media today," invoked a Mormon end times prophecy at a rally in the city of Provo.

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"Like many Mormons, I believe in a prophecy that the Constitution will one day hang by a thread in the last days. I believe that time is now, and I believe people like (Utah Sen.) Mike Lee and Ted Cruz will save it," Beck said.

The Christian website Charisma News, where Cruz and his campaign leadership have published articles, wrote that Beck's comments were a reference to the Mormon "White Horse" prophecy, suggesting that Cruz could be the horse.

In 1902, Mormon Elder John Roberts wrote in his journal that the prophet Joseph Smith had said, "You must continue to petition Congress all the time, but they will treat you like strangers and aliens and they will not give you your rights, but will govern you with strangers and commissioners. You will see the Constitution of the United States almost destroyed. It will hang like a thread as fine as a silk fiber."

"It will be preserved and saved by the efforts of the White Horse," wrote Roberts, who went on to predict that "a terrible revolution will take place in the land of America" in which "the most terrible scenes of bloodshed, murder and rape that have ever been imagined or looked upon will take place."

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At the Provo rally, the SLC Tribune reported, many attendees answered Beck's comments yelling, "I believe."

It's not the first time the "White Horse" prophecy has been invoked on the campaign trail. The SLC Tribune reported in 2007 that the presidential campaign of Mormon former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney had "resurrected (the) last days prophecy of (a) Mormon saving the Constitution."