Joseph Smith was a prophet of God

I will quote my opponent's responses. 1. "It very well may have been possible that He may have been a reincarnated Jesus, since he died when his prophecy was revealed. Possibly, when he said God told him Jesus shall return, he may have meant return to heaven" -My opponent relied on possibilities as though the prophecy isn't clear. Such words as may, possible, may (again), have been a reincarnated Jesus do not hold water in this prophecy. If you review the prophecy, you will see that Smith talks about the 'coming of the Lord'--this is clearly a reference to Jesus' second coming, not some reincarnation or invisible visit to one person, Joseph Smith was clearly talking about Jesus' coming again to the earth. Also, even if my opponent is right and it was, in fact, a reincarnated Jesus, Joseph Smith died before 1891--the year that the coming of the Lord was to take place. And what does 'reincarnated Jesus' visit really looks like anyway? 2. "It is possible It is all a metaphor. As The city of new Jerusalem is the mormon community, since essentially a city is a community. The Temple could mean the spreading of Joseph Smith's word. For that is what a place of worship initial goal is. If you look at it that way then this prophecy did come true. " -My opponent has decided to say that it is possible that the prophecy about gathering of the LDS people in a new Jerusalem is a metaphor. That this new Jerusalem could be the Mormon community itself. I do not this satisfies as an explanation. A new Jerusalem suggests that there is an 'old' Jerusalem--this old jerusalem is a place (Jerusalem, Israel), not a community. Therefore, the new Jerusalem is also a place because it corresponds to the old Jerusalem which is a place. It is also clear from LDS writings that the new Jerusalem that Joseph Smith was talking about is, in fact, Independence, Missouri, US. It is a place, not some metaphor for LDS community as a body of believers. 3. "The nation did go into civil war and it did start in South Carolina. The Civil War caused 700,000 deaths in its four year. Other foreign nations, including Great Britain, were called for by the Confederacy, which at the time was an independent country. " -American history shows that only one nation was involved in the Civil war. That is the fragmented United States. Smith says: "and they (the South) shall also call upon other nations, in order to defend themselves against other nations; and then war shall be poured out upon all nations," (Doctrine and Covenants 87:1-3). The problem here is that the Civil War was between the South and North in the US, never do we hear of Britain being called to defend any Southern states---this idea is ridiculous because States cannot make treaties with other nations, I find it not possible that some southern State would request the help of other nations. It cannot be shown in history either. This prophecy also makes it seem like the Civil war in the US caused a serious of world wars, where they evolve after being started by the Northern and Southern states. This is not the case in history. 4. For the prophecy about "not many days", my opponent responded that these could be in the eyes of the Lord days, but for us long years. Let's agree to disagree here. Although, usually to understand meanings pertaining to what God has said, theologians resort to the Hebrew language. So in the Bible, we could know what 'not many days' meant. Hebrew would help decide if its talking about eternity etc. I could see that my opponent has decided that these 'many days' could be a long time based on the fact that its been 173 years since they were uttered. If you lived in Joseph's time, I don't think you would interpret it that way, would you? And what reasons would someone give for interpreting them the way you do now during that lifetime? I await a better response from my opponent.