“This would be an ideal world, filled with righteousness, if all men would keep these two great commandments [to love God and others]; but men have turned away from the true worship of the Living God. They do not love their neighbor as themselves. Because of this condition wickedness prevails in the earth. Nations rise against nations, and war has plagued the earth from the beginning. This condition will continue until the coming of Jesus Christ as Lord of lords and King of kings” (Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions, 3:49–50).