“War Which Shall Be Eternal”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

Eternal war is Satan’s objective, not the Lord’s. The Lord is the Prince of Peace! It is sad to realize that these kinds of sentiments are very real and exist in the world today. On 1 February 1991, during the first Gulf War, Brother Ogden wrote in his journal: “How the Israelis are hated. Iran, who has insisted on its neutrality in this Gulf War but who has received over 100 Iraqi jet aircraft that have sought refuge there, today announced that it would fight alongside Iraq if Israel joined the war. It is incredible to hear that after nine years of bitter war between Iran and Iraq, with over one million dead, that Iran would stand united with Iraq if Israelis were to join the war. Maybe that is an example of what the Book of Mormon describes as eternal hatred between Lamanites and Nephites.”

Verse by Verse: The Book of Mormon: Vol. 2

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