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Elder B. H. Roberts, writing his Comprehensive History of the Church, explained that "The 'City of Zion' . . . contemplates not so much one immense city as a succession of cities of moderate size, throughout the land, and together considered as one city: 'It is supposed,' said Joseph Smith, . . . 'that such a plat when built up will contain fifteen or twenty thousand population . . . When this square is thus laid off and supplied,' said the Prophet, 'lay off another in the same way, and so fill up the world in these last days, and let every man live in the city, for this is the city of Zion'--that is, a succession of cities of moderate size of which the one to be erected at Independence, Jackson County, Missouri, is to be the center place" (A Comprehensive History of the Church 3:282-283, note).
The concept of Zion as a center place for the Lord's millennial reign is based on the image of a tent that is pitched with its stakes extended and firmly planted to provide stability and strength to the center structure (see Isaiah 33:20). Two early leaders of the Restored Church explain the proper terminology to be used: "Let me here take the liberty to say to this congregation," Elder Orson Pratt wrote, "that the City of Zion, when it is built in Jackson County, will not be called a Stake. We can find no mention in all the revelations that God has given, that the City of Zion is to be the Centre Stake of Zion; the Lord never called it a Stake in any revelation that has been given. It is to be the head quarters, it is to be the place where the Son of Man will come and dwell, where He will have a Temple, in which Temple there will be a throne prepared where Jesus will dwell in the midst of His people; it will be the great central city, and the outward branches will be called Stakes wherever they shall be organized as such" (Journal of Discourses 22:35).
Elder Orson F. Whitney further elaborated: "Jackson County, Missouri, is the chosen site for the City of Zion. No other place has been or will be appointed for that purpose. All other gathering places of God's people are Stakes of Zion, holding the outside cords and curtains of the spiritual Tabernacle of the Lord. Zion's first Stake was at Kirtland, Ohio; and other stakes were organized in Missouri, Illinois, and Iowa. All these have been abandoned; but many others, since established, now flourish. . . . Zion is greater than any of her stakes" (Saturday Night Thoughts, 183).
(We will build Zion-like cities around each of the temples in the western hemisphere during the seventh seal period after Adam-ondi-Ahman. Most last day saints will gather to the Rocky Mountains and when the destruction of those cities is complete, then the saints who have survived the cleansing process will level off the rumble that remains and lay out streets around each temple that remains. The streets will be each 132 ft wide and follow the city of Zion pattern until many 15,000-20,000 member cities are built in the Rocky Mountains and these saints will dwell there into the Millennium. Christ will visit them in the Rocky Mountains. Most last day saints will not go and live in Jackson County, Missouri. Our missionaries who have already been called home to the western hemisphere before then will be sent out, after the cleansing of the western hemisphere takes place soon, to preach to the terrestrial nonmembers who also survived the cleansing process throughout the western hemisphere and millions upon millions of Lamanites will join the church through these efforts and they too will build Zion-like cities around the temples in their area (This is when the Lamanites will blossom as a rose) and they will live in those cities of Zion into the Millennium.)
Proclamation of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (April 6 and October 22, 1845)
"A great, a glorious, and a mighty work is yet to be achieved, in spreading the truth and kingdom among the Gentiles--in restoring, organizing, instructing and establishing the Jews--in gathering, instructing, relieving, civilizing, educating, and administering salvation to the remnant of Israel on this continent--in building Jerusalem in Palestine, and the cities, stakes, temples, and sanctuaries of Zion in America; and in gathering the Gentiles into the same covenant and organization--instructing them in all things for their sanctification and preparation, that the whole Church of the Saints, both Gentile, Jew and Israel, may be prepared as a bride for the coming of the Lord. . . .
Again, we say, by the word of the Lord, to the people as well as to the rulers, your aid and your assistance is required in this great work; and you are hereby invited, in the name of Jesus, to take an active part in it from this day forward.
Open your churches, doors, and hearts for the truth; hear the apostles and elders of the Church of the Saints when they come into your cities and neighborhoods; read and search the scriptures carefully, and see whether these things are so; read the publications of the Saints, and help to publish them to others; seek for the witness of the Spirit, and come and obey the glorious fulness of the gospel, and help us to build the cities and sanctuaries of our God. . . .
To this city [Zion or New Jerusalem], and to its several branches or stakes, shall the Gentiles seek, as to a standard of light and knowledge; yea, the nations, and their kings and nobles shall say--Come, and let us go up to the Mount Zion, and to the temple of the Lord, where his holy priesthood stand to minister continually before the Lord; and where we may be instructed more fully, and receive the ordinances of remission, and of sanctification, and redemption, and thus be adopted into the family of Israel, and identified in the same covenants of promise. . . .
The city of Zion, with its sanctuary and priesthood, and the glorious fulness of the gospel, will constitute a standard which will put an end to jarring creeds and political wranglings, by uniting the republics, states, provinces, territories, nations, tribes, kindred, tongues, people, and sects of North and South America in one great and common bond of brotherhood; while truth and knowledge shall make them free, and love cement their union."
(One by one starting with the United States of America, each country will bow the knee and accept the theocracy under Christ established at AOA until all of the western hemisphere is under Christ's rule and reign during the seventh seal before He comes in glory. There will be no more borders dividing us in to individual countries or states. Truly then the Lamanites shall blossom as a rose.)
"The Lord also shall be their king and their lawgiver; while wars shall cease and peace prevail for a thousand years. . . . "
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Upcoming Events - World War III
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Re: Upcoming Events - World War III
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Re: Upcoming Events - World War III
By: kenh on Wed, 27 June 2012 14:07 |
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