Rumors of War

   War seems to threaten at every turn. Shouts come from Iran, rumblings from North Korea. The moment may be passing, but the threat of going to war in Syria loomed large.
   Rumors of war.
   There are wars we engage in, and threats of wars that don't materialize into actual wars, thankfully. I believe we should reflect: Are the wars and rumors of wars the same wars and rumors of wars prophecied by Jesus Christ? As he sat upon the Mount of Olives, His disciples came to Him, and asked what the signs of the last days would be. "Ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars," the Savior answered. ". . . Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom."
   As much as any place in the world, it is happening near the Holy Land, in the part of the world where the Savior made His prophecy.
   You can leave such thought alone, saying it is not of political concern, and not of concern to you. I say, it is important. My thought is, if it is happening, what of it? It does seem, from what I know, there has been a continuous march of war and rumor of war for the last 150 years. While there have always been wars and rumors of war, it does seem the concentration of them has been greater.
   I think of a revelation from my own religion that speaks of wars. The prophecy said a war would start in South Carolina -- that would be the Civil War -- and then war would be poured out upon all nations. It does not go unnoticed to me that two world wars came after the Civil War, nor that wars have dotted the globe ever since the Civil War. There probably has not been a lapse of much time, if any at all, when a war was not being waged somewhere upon the earth since the Civil War. Whether this is normal for all the history of the earth? I do not know for certain, but it seems not so. It seems war is more continuous.

http://www.lds.org/scriptures/dc-testament/dc/87.2?lang=eng#1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qO1O4Lc37hw