Jeffrey R. Holland
"But then, in the 184th year after Christ's birth, exactly 150 years after his ministry in the New World, 'a small part of the people . . . revolted from the church.' That was the beginning of the end of Nephite society. It took several years to happen, and several pages of Book of Mormon history to record it, but those words marked the end of the great Christian epoch in the New World of which so many prophets had dreamed and prophesied and for which so many had died. With that phrase, the saga we know as the Book of Mormon began drawing to a close.
"After two hundred years, the movement away from the Zionlike principles of Christ's teachings was inexorable." (Christ And The New Covenant, p. 315)