Excerpt from The Latter-Day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 76: January 22, 1914

Then a period of time is passed by, which we know is the time when the gospel in all its fulness was not upon the earth, and then we read of its restoration, for in verse 14 it says, this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations, and then shall the end come. And Christ said that when the end was approaching there should be no mistaking the signs of the times, for, as the lightning cometh out of the east, and shineth even unto the west, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be, i.s., as clearly as the lightning Shines in the sky, so clear should be the signs of Christ's coming. These are some of the signs given False prophets and false Christs Shall arise, nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.

Right up to the very day when Christ will come, there will be Sorrow, tribulation and war upon the earth. Christ said no word of the nations beating their swords into plowshares, and their Spears into pruninghooks. For confirmation of this I would have you read Zech. 14, and Rev. 11. There you. Will find that when Jerusalem has been rebuilt by the Jews, and is inhabited by them, a Gentile army will encompass the city for three and a half years, and will only be prevented entering its gates by the presence of two Jewish prophets, whom they will eventually succeed in destroying, and they will then enter the city, the inhabitants of which will flee before them into the valley beyond, calling upon God for deliverance, and then Christ will appear upon the Mount of Olives. Their Messiah, the Deli verer so long expected, will at last come as they have always looked for Him to come; but with amazement and the bitterest sorrow they will realize, as they perceive the wounds in His hands and feet, that He really had been to earth before, but they knew Him not, and crucified Him (zech. 13: Here we see that down to the very moment when Christ shall appear, nation will be fighting against nation. But surely, you will say, it does state in the Bible that they shall beat their Swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruninghooks. Yes, it does say so; but we cannot take that passage and study it as an isolated text, we must study it along with its context. So turn to Isa. 2, or Micah 4. Here we read that in the last days God would cause a house to be built for Himself somewhere, in some land, amongst the mountains, and that all nations shall flow into it, i.e., not all the nations of the world shall go and live in this place which is designated Zion, but that people from out of every nation under heaven, just a chosen few from each nation, should gather to Zion. Where they would delight in learning more of God.

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