I tell you, in the name of the Lord God, that the time is coming when there will be no safety only in the principles of union, for therein lies the secret of our temporal and spiritual salvation. We have been enabled to establish settlements, towns, and villages, and we have been abundantly blessed with […]
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308. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Jedidiah M. Grant quote, 1854
The world is more or less controlled all the time by influences that Lucifer evidently is not opposed to; he has little objection to the present organization of human society, from the fact that everything passes along in the wake that agrees with his religion, and rather tends to forward his purposes. – Jedidiah M. […]
304. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Franklin D. Richards quote, 1885
It was by an obedience to the same [gospel] principles that Enoch succeeded in gathering out the honest in heart unto the city of Zion. He was 365 years in building up that Zion and in gathering into it a people on the same principles that have been revealed to us in these latter days. […]
Lehi says Zion prevents captivity & destruction
As I was casually reading along in the Book of Mormon, minding my own business, I ran across a sentence I had not noticed before about Zion. It’s in 2 Nephi, chapter 1 where Lehi is admonishing his sons just before his passing. The last third of verse 21 jumped out at me for the […]
299. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Brigham Young quote, 1869
We have come here to build up Zion. How shall we do it? I could tell you how if I had time. I have told you a great many times. There is one thing I will say in regard to it. We have got to be united in our efforts. We should go to work […]
298. What Zion is and is not – George Q. Cannon quote, 1869
It has been seen by thinking men that there is something radically wrong in the organization of society in this respect, but they have not known how to remedy the evils. It is so in the religious world. Religionists have to mourn and deplore the divisions that exist among the so-called followers of Christ; and […]
Thoughts on Zion #60 – We Must Overcome Babylon’s Traditions
Early LDS leaders taught that the Saints had brought Babylon’s follies with them to Utah and that, in order to build the prophesied latter-day Zion, those traditions had to be replaced. In June of 1877, Apostle Erastus Snow stated, “Now the Latter-day Saints are gathering from all nations and tongues, with divers customs and habits […]
292. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Henry B. Eyring quote, 2009
In the terrible days of persecution and deprivation as the faithful moved from Ohio to Missouri to Illinois and then across the deserts going west, the sisters in their poverty and sorrows cared for others…. Some were young and some old. They were from many lands and peoples, as you are today. But they were […]
291. Zion Prophesied – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1874
No man or woman on the face of the earth will ever be disappointed with regard to the fulfillment of the word of the Lord, for he has uttered decrees, made covenants, and through his servants the Prophets has declared his word and will concerning the world and its inhabitants, and not one of his […]
290. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Brigham Young quote, 1872
Suppose we should examine a city in a stake of Zion conducted after the order of Enoch! We would like to look, for a few moments, upon the facts as they would exist. If a people were gathered together, were they many or few, who would follow out the instructions given them in the Bible […]
287. What Zion is and is not – John Taylor quote, 1884
Let us observe the laws of God, and keep His commandments, and the blessing of God will be with us. We will go forward and build our temples and labor therein. [1] We will go forth and build up the Kingdom of God; [2] we will go forth and purify the Church of God; [3] […]
285. What Building Zion Requires of Us – Lorenzo Snow quote, 1878
Many of us expect to go forth and build up the Center Stake of Zion; but before we are called, we must understand these things [Consecration & Stewardship], and conform to them more practically than many of us do at the present time. – Lorenzo Snow, 4/21/1878
284. What Zion is and is not – John Taylor quote, 1884
We are here for the purpose of becoming acquainted with the will of God, with the law of God, with the order of God, with the dominion of God; and we are here to establish the kingdom of God. We are here to be taught in things pertaining to the Church of God, and its […]
Thoughts on Zion #59 – Have we left Babylon behind?
During the early 1870s, LDS leaders spoke about how the Saints left ‘Babylon’ for Utah. Have we left Babylon behind us? “We are living in that eventful time, and the Lord has set his hand to gather his people. He has called them forth out of Babylon…. that they receive not of her plagues and […]
283. Zion Prophesied – Wilford Woodruff quote, 1878
Zion will be built up; Zion will be redeemed, and she will arise and shine and put on her beautiful garments; she will break from off her neck her yoke, and she will be clothed with the glory of our God. Zion has been sold for naught; she will be redeemed without money; she will […]
281. Babylon – Zion’s Antithesis – Orson Pratt quote, 1872
Now mark another prophecy. “I heard a great voice,” says John, “from heaven, saying, ‘Come out of her, O my people!” Out of where? “Mystery Babylon, the Great”—out of this great confusion that exists throughout all the nations and multitudes of Christendom. “Come out of her, O my people, that ye partake not of her […]