If you are a Latter-Day Saint, interested in living in a future Zion society, you would probably like to know specific details on how to actually become a Zion person. We’ve been taught we need to become pure in heart, but haven’t been given clear, specific steps to take. By exploring the word of God […]
Monthly Archives: April 2015
10. Central to the Gospel, Brigham Young, 1853
“It now remains with us to bear off this kingdom, build up Zion, and establish the law thereof, until Christ shall reign King of nations….” – President Brigham Young, 6/7/1853 In other words, until Christ returns, our job is to prepare by building up His kingdom [which is spiritual] and building Zion [which is temporal]. […]
9. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Daniel H. Wells, 1859
“Are we ready now to take hold with one heart and with one mind to man the ship Zion — build a temple for instance? Are you ready, by a skilful and judicious husbandry of the soil, to bring forth its rich fruits, and store them up until you are called upon to contribute your […]
8. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Lorenzo Snow
Brethren, your eye should be single to the glory of God, to hearkening to the counsel of brother Brigham, and to the building up of Zion, then your bodies would be filled with spirit, and your understandings with light, and your hearts with joy, and your souls would be quickened into eternal life with the […]
7. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Jedediah M. Grant, 1854
“We may talk of making our own heaven, and of building up the city of Zion, and making it beautiful, and having it polished after the similitude of a palace, but we must have an experience in doing such a work, before we can accomplish it.” [emphases added] – Apostle Jedidiah M. Grant, 9/24/1854 In […]
6. Building Zion Requires Real Labor, Brigham Young on 7/13/1855
“…for if we are to build up the kingdom of God, or establish Zion upon the earth, we have to labor with our hands, plan with our minds, and devise ways and means to accomplish that object.” – President Brigham Young, 7/13/1855
We Can’t Coast into Zion “Sitting on a Hemlock Slab”
Yesterday morning I was continuing my on-going search through all the talks given during the Territorial Utah years by LDS General Authorities that mention Zion. As I go through them, nearly every mention of Zion falls neatly into about a dozen general idea categories. So, I ran across a talk by Wilford Woodruff given in […]
5. Early Utahns Were Building Zion: Heber C. Kimball on 3/19/1854
” I do not expect to be with you forever, neither will brother Brigham in these bodies; they are nearly worn out; they have stood a long and violent siege and will soon go the way of all the earth. Still we may live many years yet to assist in making permanent the foundations of […]
4. Early Utahns Were Building Zion: Brigham Young on 2/20/1853
“You were annoyed with the ungodly conversation and filthy deeds of your neighbors, your peace was destroyed, and you could not enjoy that happiness held out to you in the Gospel; yet you felt the influence of the spirit of truth burning in your heart, which kindled in you a longing desire to mingle with […]
Thoughts on Zion 28: Lorenzo Snow’s Experimental Zion Community
During the decade beginning in 1864, under the direction of Apostle Lorenzo Snow, Brigham City became a glowing example of Zion-like self-sufficiency and independence from the American economic system. When an extended financial crisis hit Utah in 1873, Brigham City barely noticed and their economy expanded in that year more than ever. Brigham City became […]