PEACE ON EARTH

This is taken from the publication, The Book of Mormon, Verse by Verse, by Ogden and Skinner, page 198.

“Some years ago, on a BBC television program, renowned Christian theologians were interviewed, followed by Elie Wiesel, the Nobel Prize winning Jewish author. Asked about Christianity Wiesel quipped: ‘One thing we know. When Messiah comes, there will be peace; Jesus came and there is no peace. From this perspective, (Christ) the Author of true Christianity, is relegated to dismal failure due to lack of peace in this world.

But (Jesus) himself said, ‘Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword’ (Matthew 10:34). Inherent in the great plan of happiness is a period of testing, when the war between good and evil, begun the premortal world, continues and the absence of total peace persists until the adversary is confined eternally to outer darkness and all flesh is brought under the Savior’s dominion. The title ‘Prince of Peace’ is, therefore, a prophecy of that Millennial Era, which assuredly will come.”