I Prayed for a Healing.I Got Two Words Instead.

In December 2021 I woke up at 3:30 in the morning and felt the Spirit tell me to read the book of Revelation.

That is a tough read at 3:30 in the morning. I pulled out my phone anyway and started thumbing through it, half asleep. I got a few chapters in and came across something and thought, I don't remember that.

That was the beginning of a study that has not stopped since.

I recorded this as the first episode of the podcast. The video runs about seventeen minutes and covers a few things this article doesn't.

The Year I Spent in Revelation

I went through that entire next year studying. I have about sixteen commentaries on Revelation and I worked through them, trying to absorb as much as I could. I learned more than I expected to.

By November 2022 I decided to make a video about what I had learned. It took me a long time to put together, and when I finished it I was not happy with it. It was not very good. I looked at it and realized I had so much more to say than I had managed to get into it.

I was also very sick.

I had developed a heart condition called bigeminy. I did not know at the time what was causing it. I eventually found the cause and I was cured of it, but during those months it was debilitating. It is not exactly right to describe it this way, but the closest I can get is that the oxygen coming out of my lungs was meeting a closed valve. I was instantly out of breath no matter what I did. I could not walk to the mailbox without stopping. Getting into bed left me winded for five minutes. There was one flight of stairs in my house that took me a full minute to climb. A flight of stairs should take five seconds.

So I was frustrated with the video and I was sick, and I decided to start over.

I took Revelation chapter 12, the Joseph Smith Translation, and built the whole thing out in a PowerPoint. Every word of the chapter, fully animated. I had it finished and ready to go at 10:30 at night, and I thought, I'll sleep on this and see what I think in the morning.

November 22, 2022

At four in the morning I woke up in the middle of a massive attack.

My heart was pounding. My chest was so tight I could not breathe. I fell out of bed, scrambled to my knees at the edge of it, and started praying the way I had never prayed in my life.

I said, God, please touch my heart. Heal me. I have been to multiple doctors and multiple hospitals and nobody has figured out what this is. I cannot breathe. My ablation is not until February and this is November and I cannot breathe. Please, Father, touch my heart and heal me.

And all of a sudden my mind was diverted to my PowerPoint.

Why am I thinking about my PowerPoint? I don't care about my PowerPoint. I can't breathe.

And then the words Donald Trump came to me.

I did not see them. I did not hear them. I knew them, and I knew them more certainly than if his name had been spelled out in neon right in front of me.

I jumped up off my knees and said out loud, "What? What does Donald Trump have anything to do with Revelation chapter 12?"

No answer.

But I noticed something. My heart was not pounding. My chest was not tight. I was breathing perfectly normally and I was as calm as could be.

I stood there thinking, what just happened.

What I Mean When I Say I Knew Something

I want to make something clear, because I am going to use this kind of language throughout everything I write.

I have never seen a vision. I have never seen an angel. I have never had a near death experience.

When I say I saw something, or I learned something, or I heard something, I am describing the way the Spirit works in a person's mind through reading and pondering. In your mind and in your heart. That is the ordinary channel God uses with ordinary people, and it is available to everyone.

I am not claiming anything other people cannot have. I want that understood from the beginning. I have written at length about how that channel works, and about what the Lord says it accomplished at the Red Sea, in Study It Out in Your Mind.

Five Times I Asked. Five Times He Said No.

The next morning I told a friend of mine. He did not believe me. He said, you can't tell anybody that.

I knew he was right, and I still wanted to tell people.

About a week later I said, Father, I want to make a video about what you have taught me.

The answer was no.

I asked five times. Five times the answer was no.

So I took that to mean I was not supposed to talk about it. I mentioned it to a few people privately and that was all. I did not go online. I did not post anything. I just kept studying.

That went on for two years. I kept learning. I have a lot of commentaries on Revelation and I have even more on Isaiah, and I went through all of it.

Publish It to the World

In November 2024 I decided I wanted to make a self published book for my family.

I wanted my children and my grandchildren and my descendants to be able to read during the Millennium about what I had been taught. That was the whole ambition. A book for the family.

I had material scattered everywhere. Notebooks all over the house. Notes on my phone. Files on my computer. Journals. Sticky notes covering my reading table. I started pulling it together.

Then on December 23, 2024, the answer changed.

Publish it to the world.

What?

Publishing something to your family is one thing. Publishing it to the world is an entirely different matter. But I knew what I had to do.

What followed was four months of the hardest and best work of my life. Almost every morning He woke me at 3:30 and I came down to this microphone and dictated. Five, six, seven hours a day. It was a fire hose, and it was exhausting, because I had to concentrate on things I had never heard before, never read anywhere, and never seen from anyone.

Then, somewhere around January 15, 2025, I was reading Revelation chapter 12 again and I understood something in it I had read one way my whole life.

I jumped back from my stand, stood there in my own house, and said out loud to an empty room, "I can't publish that. I can't publish that."

Why I Went to My Stake President

I called that same day, went through the executive secretary, and made an appointment.

I did not go for approval of a manuscript. I did not go for permission to publish. He never read a word of it and I never asked him to. I went with one question, and the question was whether I was being deceived.

I walked into that office prepared to be told to drop the whole thing. If he had told me to leave it alone, I would have left it alone, and there would be no book and no website and no article like this one.

He did not tell me to stop. He told me he had never heard any of it before either, and that I should follow my heart and publish it as my opinion rather than as doctrine. That is exactly what I have done every day since.

That visit has since been dismissed by men who have never met either one of us, and the way they dismiss it says more about them than about me. I laid all of that out in Study It Out in Your Mind, including what happens when a person claims authority over me that was never given to him while denying the authority that was given to my stake president.

February 9, 2026

I published in April 2025 and thought I was finished.

I was not. He kept giving me more. I would realize something else needed to go in, and I would fix it and upload it again. Between April and the end of July 2025 I uploaded to Amazon twenty-four times.

By December 2025 I understood that I had to rewrite the whole book. And it happened again. The same fire hose.

Then on February 9, 2026, I had a day I will not forget. I felt the Spirit from head to toe for the entire day, and I finally understood Revelation chapter 12.

It was nothing like what I had thought. That entire chapter, every single word of it, is about The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and what is going to happen in the world.

I did not see a vision. He showed it to me in the scriptures and in mental pictures, the way He always has. And I cried for days.

That changed the whole book.

Why This Stopped Being Fun

When I started, I thought this was going to be enjoyable. Look, here is Donald Trump in this passage in Isaiah, and this one in Revelation, and isn't that interesting.

It is not that anymore. It is a rescue mission.

People cannot see where he fits because they hate him. They have dismissed him, denigrated him, and marred him. And being marred is the point.

"As many were astonied at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men." (Isaiah 52:14)

No one in history has been marred more than this man. His image is marred. His reputation is marred. No one in history has faced this volume of opposition, and it is not an accident. It is happening because of the system he is disrupting, a seven-headed beast whose heads mean it covers the whole world.

I want to be clear about what I am and am not saying. Jesus Christ is the Savior. He is the only one. What I am describing is a temporal deliverer serving a temporal purpose in a specific moment, and nothing more than that.

Soon the Lord is going to heal him, and everything is going to change. When that happens we will know exactly where we are.

"And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer." (Revelation 6:2)

That is the coming forth of the first horseman. Almost everything else in prophecy, in Isaiah and Jeremiah and Daniel and Ezekiel and Joel, comes after that moment.

God gave me the name of the book. He told me what to write and He told me what to call it. That is where the title came from.

The Woman Who Was Not Going to Buy It

One more story, because it tells you something about how this has gone.

A woman saw my book and said, I am not buying that.

Later the Spirit told her to buy it. She was not happy about it. She said, I am not buying that book. But she followed the Spirit anyway and bought the digital version.

Something went wrong with the download. She was flying to Europe and it cut out on her in the middle. She was furious. When she got home she went and bought the paperback, marked it up all the way through, and started telling her friends about it.

Those friends are the reason I was invited to come and speak to them. They had never heard any of this before.

If you are going to read it, get the paperback or the hardcover. Mark it up. The digital edition is fine and I am glad it exists, but this is a book people write in.

Where I Am Going From Here

That is the foundation. Everything else I write and record builds on it.

I am going to be posting podcast episodes here, hopefully at least one a week, along with videos. I have a great deal left to say.

Thank you for coming here.

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Keep Reading

Is Donald Trump in Biblical Prophecy? What Scripture Actually Says The scriptural case laid out from the beginning, if this is the first thing of mine you have read.

My Testimony of the Book of Mormon After Forty Years of Daily Reading Where the study habit behind all of this came from.

I Don't Believe You, Kelly For readers whose first reaction to this story is skepticism. That is a reasonable reaction and I take it seriously.

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Kelly Smith is the author of The First Horseman, Donald Trump and Biblical Prophecy. Get the book at FirstHorseman.World.