“Finally, in Ether’s time too, the anarchy became absolute: ‘Now there began to be a war upon all the face of the land, every man with his band fighting for that which he desired.’ (Ether 13:25.) Destruction produced its own intoxication: ‘And when the night came they were drunken with anger, even as a man who is drunken with wine; and they slept again upon their swords.’ (Ether 15:22.)
“Preceding the second coming, will there be such similar and widespread violence, disorder, and anarchy again? Yet even in the midst of such destruction, the Lord’s purposes unfold, not only generally but individually, as He keeps His individualized promises to His servants” (Maxwell, Plain and Precious Things, 90).