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This leads me to the question: how do we know that the Messiah, the Prince of Peace, will not do as they have done in South Africa. There they established reconcilliation commissions to get all sides of the struggle talking together and creating true peace where there had been great ugliness.

One example shows that Jesus, the Messiah of Israel dispenses with all of those enemies right at the beginning of His reign and eliminates everyone that He sees as not deserving of life in His Kingdom that He is setting up on this earth, ruling and reigning from Jerusalem...

   Matthew Chapter 25

31 "When the Son of Man comes in His glory, and all the holy angels
   with Him, then He will sit on the throne of His glory.

32 All the nations will be gathered before Him, and He will separate
   them one from another, as a shepherd divides his sheep from the goats.

33 And He will set the sheep on His right hand, but the goats on the left.

34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, 'Come, you blessed
   of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation
   of the world:

35 for I was hungry and you gave Me food; I was thirsty and you gave Me
   drink; I was a stranger and you took Me in;

36 I was naked and you clothed Me; I was sick and you visited Me; I was
   in prison and you came to Me.'

37 Then the righteous will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see
   You hungry and feed You, or thirsty and give You drink?

38 When did we see You a stranger and take You in, or naked and clothe
   You?

39 Or when did we see You sick, or in prison, and come to You?'

40 And the King will answer and say to them, 'Assuredly, I say to you,
   inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren,
   you did it to Me.'

41 Then He will also say to those on the left hand, 'Depart from Me,
   you cursed, into the everlasting fire prepared for the devil and
   his angels:

42 for I was hungry and you gave Me no food; I was thirsty and you
   gave Me no drink;

43 I was a stranger and you did not take Me in, naked and you did not
   clothe Me, sick and in prison and you did not visit Me.'

44 Then they also will answer Him, saying, 'Lord, when did we see You
   hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison, and
   did not minister to You?'

45 Then He will answer them, saying, 'Assuredly, I say to you, inasmuch
   as you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do
   it to Me.'

46 And these will go away into everlasting punishment, but the righteous
   into eternal life."

And also note that Jesus said the following in that He did not come to bring peace (the first time when He came) but to bring division.

   Matthew Chapter 10

32 "Therefore whoever confesses Me before men, him I will also confess
   before My Father who is in heaven.

33 But whoever denies Me before men, him I will also deny before My
   Father who is in heaven.

34 "Do not think that I came to bring peace on earth. I did not come
   to bring peace but a sword.

35 For I have come to 'set a man against his father, a daughter against
   her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law';

36 and 'a man's enemies will be those of his own household.'

37 He who loves father or mother more than Me is not worthy of Me.
   And he who loves son or daughter more than Me is not worthy of Me.

38 And he who does not take his cross and follow after Me is not worthy
   of Me.

39 He who finds his life will lose it, and he who loses his life for
   My sake will find it.