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Members of the Church of Jesus Christ have known from the beginning of this
dispensation of the gospel that as a result of wickedness, hard-heartedness, and spiritual
blindness among men, great wars and conflicts would come upon the earth. In 1823,
when the Era of Good Feelings still predominated in America, the Angel Moroni informed
Joseph Smith that great judgments “were coming upon the earth, with great desolation
by famine, sword, and pestilence.”1 The Prophecy on War, given December 25, 1832,
declared that a modern era of warfare would commence with the coming of civil war to
the United States, and during this era of conflict the time would come when war would
“be poured out upon all nations.” (D&C 87:2.) Having identified the major features in the
development of this modern era of warfare, the Lord warned mankind that if unchecked,
the future judgments would eventually make “a full end of all nations.” (D&C 87:6.)