You and I have the privilege of serving God, of building up Zion, sending the gospel to the nations of the earth and preaching it at home, subduing every passion within us, and bringing all subject to the law of God. – Brigham Young, 12/8/1867
Monthly Archives: December 2016
176. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1870
But when He speaks from the heavens and says, “Now, my children, gather out from the wicked,” some consent to this, and actually go so far as to gather, and that is why we are here in these mountains. But our labor is not done: we must still progress until we become one. The Lord […]
175. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis, Brigham Young, 1867
And one of the last writers we have here in this book—John the Revelator—looking at the Church in the latter days, says: “Come out of her, my people”—out of Babylon, out of this confusion and wickedness, which they call “civilization.” Civilization! It is corruption and wickedness of the deepest dye. It is no society for […]
174. What Building Zion Requires of Us, Brigham Young, 1870
The Lord wants to build up His Zion, and He wants to build it up through you and me. We are the ones He has called upon. Will we consent to do this? I firmly believe that, before we make any very effectual progress in the accomplishment of that work, we must become more united […]
173. Zion Prophesied, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
The Lord has put into our hands the power to build up this great Zion, which all the ancient prophets rejoiced in and prophesied about. – Wilford Woodruff, 5/6/1870
172. Early Utahns Were Building Zion, Wilford Woodruff, 1870
In fact there is no dispensation that has been looked upon with as much interest by all the prophets of God and inspired men, from the day of Joseph Smith, as that in which we live, in which the Zion of God is being built up, and the earth is being prepared for the coming […]
171. Central to The Gospel, Brigham Young, 1867
We have many duties to perform, and a great work is before us. We have Zion to build up, and upon this we are all agreed, but we differ more or less respecting the modus operandi for we wish, in the majority of instances to follow the dictates of our own inclinations. – Brigham Young, […]
170. Building Zion is God’s Will, Wilford Woodruff, 1873
We shall pass away and go to the other side of the veil, and the burden of the building up of Zion will rest upon our sons and daughters. Then rejoice in the Gospel of Christ. Rejoice in the principles of eternal life. I am looking for the fulfillment of all things that the Lord […]
Thoughts on Zion #46 – Building Zion was the whole point of gathering to Utah
In 1868, LDS Church President Brigham Young couldn’t have said it any plainer, “We are gathered together in the tops of these mountains for the express purpose of building up Zion, the Zion of the last days, the glory of which was seen by the prophets of the Almighty from the days of old.” Eleven […]