Thesis: Under the “many-good-things-of-their-own-free-will” principle (D&C 58:27), interested Latter-Day Saints could work together to build Zion (or at least, pre-Zion) communities now, instead of waiting for someone else to build Zion for us. That way, we learn from our experiences to be better prepared for the official Zion and also, when Babylon is destroyed, we […]
Monthly Archives: December 2014
Thoughts on Zion 25 – Building Zion Communities
The same spirit of Zion, of cooperation and mutual benefit, shown in how the Saints established Salt Lake City in 1847, and in their efforts to “gather the poor to Zion”, was then expressed in how the immigrating Saints founded the Mormon communities along the Rocky Mountains. In his book “Great Basin Kingdom”, Leonard […]