Establishment of Zion

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Establishment of Zion

• Servant of the Lord Jesus Christ

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First, Its Important to Note

• For unto whomsoever much is given, of him
  shall much be required and to whom the Lord has
  committed much, of him will men ask the more.
• Luke 1257
• for unto whom much is given, much is required
  and he who sins against the greater light shall
  receive the greater condemnation.
• DC 811c
• This is talking about understanding of the Gospel
  and establishment of Zion, the Kingdom of God,
  on earth

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The key is the vision of Zion

• "Where there is no vision, the people perish but
  he that keepeth the law, happy is he.
• Proverbs 2918

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• Zionwhat, why, how

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What is Zion?

• And it came to pass in the thirty and sixth
  year, the people were all converted unto the
  Lord, upon all the face of the land, both
  Nephites and Lamanites, and
• there were no contentions and disputations among
  them, and
• every man did deal justly one with another
• And they had all things common among them,
  therefore they were not rich and poor, bond and
  free, but
• they were all made free, and
• partakers of the heavenly gift.
• IV Nephi 13-4

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And also

• Therefore verily thus saith the Lord, Let Zion
  rejoice, for this is Zion, THE PURE IN HEART
  therefore let Zion rejoice
• DC 945c

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Where did the name come from?

• And the Lord called his people, Zion, because
• they were of one heart and of one mind, and
• dwelt in righteousness and
• there were no poor among them.
• Genesis 723 DC 362hi

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Conversely the Lord said,

• I say unto you, Be one and if ye are not one,
  ye are not mine.
• DC 386a

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Whose kingdom is it?

• And the Lord said, Blessed is he through whose
  seed Messiah shall come for he saith, I am
  Messiah, the King of Zion, the Rock of heaven,
  which is broad as eternity and whoso cometh in
  at the gate, and climbeth up by me shall never
  fall.
• Genesis 759 or DC 3610gh Psalms 1492

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When has Zion existed on the earth?

• Enochs City (Genesis 720-25)
• Salem (Psalms 762)
• Golden Years (approximately 100 years) in BOM
  land after Christ came (IV Nephi 13-4,6)
• Certain times during Old Testament
• Adam, Abraham, Moses at Mount Horeb
• Early Church (Acts 238-47, 432-37, 514-16)

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Will Zion exist again?

• righteousness and truth will I cause to sweep
  the earth as with a flood, to gather out mine own
  elect from the four quarters of the earth unto a
  place which I shall prepare a holy city, that my
  people may gird up their loins, and be looking
  forth to the time of my coming for there shall
  be my tabernacle, and it shall be called Zion, a
  New Jerusalem.
• Genesis 770 DC 3612fg

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Why will Zion exist again?

• wherefore the decree hath gone forth from the
  Father that they shall be gathered in unto one
  place, upon the face of this land, to prepare
  their hearts, and be prepared in all things,
  against the day when tribulation and desolation
  are sent forth upon the wicked
• DC 282d

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Zion will be our Salvation

• Watch, therefore, for ye know neither the day
  nor the hour. Let them, therefore, who are
  among the Gentiles, flee unto Zion.
• DC 1084
• And then shall they assist my people that they
  may be gathered in, who are scattered upon all
  the face of the land, in unto the New Jerusalem.
  
• III Nephi 103

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Again, Zion will be our Salvation

• And that a New Jerusalem should be built up upon
  this land, unto the remnant of the seed of
  Joseph, for which things there has been a type
  for as Joseph brought his father down into the
  land of Egypt, even so he died there Wherefore
  the Lord brought a remnant of the seed of Joseph
  out of the land of Jerusalem, that he might be
  merciful unto the seed of Joseph, that they
  should perish not, even as he was merciful unto
  the father of Joseph, that he should perish not
  Wherefore the remnant of the house of Joseph
  shall be built up upon this land and it shall be
  a land of their inheritance and they shall build
  up a holy city unto the Lord, like unto the
  Jerusalem of old and they shall no more be
  confounded, until the end come, when the earth
  shall pass away.
• Ether 66-8

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Zion will also be

• Remember this which I tell you before, that you
  may lay it to heart, and receive that which shall
  follow. Behold, verily I say unto you, For this
  cause I have sent you that you might be obedient,
  and that your hearts might be prepared to bear
  testimony of the things which are to come and
  also that you might be honored of laying the
  foundation, and of bearing record of the land
  upon which the Zion of God shall stand and also
  that a feast of fat things might be prepared for
  the poor yea, a feast of fat things, of wine on
  the lees well refined, that the earth may know
  that the mouths of the prophets shall not fail
  yea, a supper of the house of the Lord, well
  prepared, unto which all nations shall be
  invited.
• Firstly, the rich and the learned, the wise and
  the noble and
• after that cometh the day of my power
• then shall the poor, the lame, and the blind, and
  the deaf, come in unto the marriage of the Lamb,
  and partake of the supper of the Lord, prepared
  for the great day to come.
• Behold, I, the Lord, have spoken it. And that
  the testimony might go forth from Zion yea, from
  the mouth of the city of the heritage of God
  yea, for this cause I have sent you hither, and
  have selected my servant Edward Partridge, and
  have appointed unto him his mission in this land
• DC 583-4a (Look Up the Parable of the Wedding
  Feast)

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Continued

• And, behold, this is not yet, but by and by
  wherefore seeing that I, the Lord, have decreed
  all these things upon the face of the earth, I
  will that my saints should be assembled upon the
  land of Zion and that every man should take
  righteousness in his hands, and faithfulness upon
  his loins, and lift a warning voice unto the
  inhabitants of the earth and declare both by
  word and by flight, that desolation shall come
  upon the wicked.
• DC 639de

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• What are the key tenants that have been covered
  thus far?

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• What do we know about Zion from non-Restoration
  Scriptures?

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Zion in King James Bible OT

• David sought for Zion,
• When the Ark of the Covenant moved to Jerusalem,
  this city now called Zion
• Psalms have 40 verses about Zion
• Prophets spoke of present day Jerusalem as Zion
  or the glorious Zion yet to be,
• Hosea Prophesied to Northern Kingdom from
  783-43BC before fall of Samaria
• Amos 775-50BC sheep farmer called to warn
  people, not trained as prophet
• Isaiah Born 765 BC age 22 experience with
  God, major Hebrew Prophet
• Micah Contemporary of Isaiah also warned
  Judah, looked forward to Zion
• Zephaniah Prophesied before King Josiahs
  reform (book of law found in temple)
• Jeremiah 627BC at age 18 experience with God,
  warned Jerusalem for 23 years
• Author of Lamentations Jeremiah commonly
  thought, scholars dont agree
• Obadiah 500 BC denounced Edomites, descendents
  of Esau for looting
• Zechariah 600 BC very much end times
  prophecies
• Haggai 520 BC with Zechariah got work resumed
  on temple after return from exile
• Joel 400 BC end times prophecies
• RED Major Prophet, BLUE Minor Prophet
• Denotes that book contains more on final
  Zion in glory
• Denotes that book uses the word Zion

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David sought Zion

• Zion in Davids Time (II Samuel 53-12)
• 3 So all the elders of Israel came to the king
  to Hebron and king David made a league with them
  in Hebron before the Lord and they anointed
  David king over Israel.4 David was thirty years
  old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty
  years.5 In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven
  years and six months and in Jerusalem he reigned
  thirty and three years over all Israel and
  Judah.6 And the king and his men went to
  Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of
  the land which spake unto David, saying, Except
  thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt
  not come in hither thinking, David cannot come
  in hither.7 Nevertheless, David took the
  stronghold of Zion the same is the city of
  David.8 And David said on that day, Whosoever
  getteth up to the gutter, and smiteth the
  Jebusites, and the lame and the blind, that are
  hated of David's soul, he shall be chief and
  captain. Wherefore they said, The blind and the
  lame shall not come into the house.9 So David
  dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of
  David. And David built round about from Millo and
  inward.10 And David went on, and grew great, and
  the Lord God of hosts was with him.11 And Hiram
  king of Tyre sent messengers to David, and cedar
  trees, and carpenters, and masons and they built
  David a house.12 And David perceived that the
  Lord had established him king over Israel, and
  that he had exalted his kingdom for his people
  Israel's sake.
• Ark of the Covenant moved to Jerusalem (I Kings
  81)
• Then Solomon assembled the elders of Israel, and
  all the heads of the tribes, the chief of the
  fathers of the children of Israel, unto king
  Solomon in Jerusalem, that they might bring up
  the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the
  city of David, which is Zion.

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A Historians understanding of Zion

• http//www.crystalinks.com/mountzion.html
• The name Zion was originally used for the
  mountain on which Jerusalem was built.
• The name first appears in the story of David's
  capture of Jerusalem, which was called the
  stronghold of Zion.
• Later the name was also used for the part of the
  slope on which the temple was situated.
• Zion was supposedly the dwelling place of God.
• Mount Zion is the highest point in the city of
  Jerusalem.
• For more than a thousand years, Jewish tradition
  has identified Mount Zion as being the last
  resting place of King David and his descendants
• Mount Zion is the site of the Last Supper and the
  place where the supposedly Virgin Mary died.
• For info on the historical development of Zion,
  the city of Jerusalem, see http//www.biblemysteri
  es.com/lectures/zion.htm

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Psalms References

• Psalms 26 Yet have I set my King upon my holy
  hill of Zion.
• Psalms 911 Sing praises to the Lord, which
  dwelleth in Zion declare among the people his
  doings.
• Psalms 914 That I may show forth all thy praise
  in the gates of the daughter of Zion I will
  rejoice in thy salvation.
• Psalms 147 Oh that Zion were established out of
  heaven, the salvation of Israel. O Lord, when
  wilt thou establish Zion? When the Lord bringeth
  back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall
  rejoice, Israel shall be glad.
• Psalms 151 Lord, who shall abide in thy
  tabernacle? who shall dwell in they holy hill of
  Zion?
• Psalms 202 Send thee help from the sanctuary,
  and strengthen thee out of Zion
• Psalms 465 For Zion shall come, and God shall be
  in the midst of her she shall not be moved God
  shall help her right early.
• Psalms 482 Beautiful for situation, the joy of
  the whole earth, is mount Zion, on the sides of
  the north, the city of the great King.
• Psalms 4811 Let mount Zion rejoice, let the
  daughters of Judah be glad, because of thy
  judgments.
• Psalms 4812 Walk about Zion, and go round about
  her tell the towers thereof.

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Psalms References contd

• Psalms 502 Out of Zion, the perfection of
  beauty, God hath shined.
• Psalms 5118 Do good in thy good pleasure unto
  Zion build thou the walls of Jerusalem.
• Psalms 537 Oh that Zion were come, the salvation
  of Israel for out of Zion shall they be judged,
  when God bringeth back the captivity of his
  people. And Jacob shall rejoice Israel shall be
  glad.
• Psalms 651 Praise waiteth for thee, O God, in
  Zion and unto thee shall the vow be performed.
• Psalms 6935 For God will save Zion, and will
  build the cities of Judah that they may dwell
  there, and have it in possession.
• Psalms 742 Remember thy congregation, which thou
  hast purchased of old the rod of thine
  inheritance, which thou hast redeemed this mount
  Zion, wherein thou hast dwelt.
• Psalms 762 In Salem also is his tabernacle, and
  his dwelling place in Zion.
• Psalms 7868 But chose the tribe of Judah, the
  mount Zion which he loved.
• Psalms 847 They go from strength to strength,
  every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.
• Psalms 872 The Lord loveth the gates of Zion
  more than all the dwellings of Jacob.
• Psalms 875 And of Zion it shall be said, This
  and that man was born in her and the Highest
  himself shall establish her.

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Psalms References contd

• Psalms 978 Zion heard, and was glad and the
  daughters of Judah rejoiced because of thy
  judgments, O Lord.
• Psalms 992 The Lord is great in Zion and he is
  high above all the people.
• Psalms 10213 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy
  upon Zion for the time to favor her, yea, the
  set time, is come.
• Psalms 10216 When the Lord shall build up Zion,
  he shall appear in his glory.
• Psalms 10221 To declare the name of the Lord in
  Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem
• Psalms 1102 The Lord shall send the rod of thy
  strength out of Zion rule thou in the midst of
  thine enemies.
• Psalms 1251 They that trust in the Lord in mount
  Zion, cannot be removed, but abide forever.
• Psalms 1261 When the Lord turned again the
  captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream.
• Psalms 1285 The Lord shall bless thee out of
  Zion and thou shalt see the good of Jerusalem
  all the days of thy life.
• Psalms 1295 Let them all be confounded and
  turned back that hate Zion.

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Psalms References contd

• Psalms 13213 For the Lord hath chosen Zion he
  hath desired it for his habitation.
• Psalms 1333 As the dew of Hermon, and as the dew
  that descended upon the mountains of Zion for
  there the Lord commanded the blessing, even life
  for evermore.
• Psalms 1343 The Lord that made heaven and earth
  bless thee out of Zion.
• Psalms 13521 Blessed be the Lord out of Zion
  Blessed be the Lord out of Jerusalem. Praise ye
  the Lord.
• Psalms 1371 By the rivers of Babylon, there we
  sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.
• Psalms 1373 For there they that carried us away
  captive required of us a song and they that
  wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us
  one of the songs of Zion.
• Psalms 14610 The Lord shall reign forever, even
  thy God, O Zion, unto all generations. Praise ye
  the Lord.
• Psalms 14712 Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem
  praise thy God, O Zion.
• Psalms 1492 Let Israel rejoice in him that made
  him let the children of Zion be joyful in their
  King.
• (40 Verses in Psalms use the word Zion)

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Isaiahs reference to Zion

• Isaiah 18 And the daughter of Zion is left as a
  cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of
  cucumbers, as a besieged city.
• Isaiah 127 Zion shall be redeemed with judgment,
  and her converts with righteousness.
• Isaiah 23 And many people shall go and say, Come
  ye, and let us go up to the mountain of the Lord,
  to the house of the God of Jacob and he will
  teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his
  paths for out of Zion shall go forth the law,
  and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem
• Isaiah 316 Moreover the Lord saith, Because the
  daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with
  stretched-forth necks and wanton eyes, walking
  and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling
  with their feet
• Isaiah 317 Therefore the Lord will smite with a
  scab the crown of the head of the daughters of
  Zion, and the Lord will discover their secret
  parts.
• Isaiah 42 And it shall come to pass, they that
  are left in Zion, and he that remaineth in
  Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even everyone
  that is written among the living in Jerusalem
• Isaiah 43 When the Lord shall have washed away
  the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall
  have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst
  thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the
  spirit of burning.
• Isaiah 44 And the Lord will create upon every
  dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her
  assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the
  shinning of a flaming fire by night for upon all
  the glory of Zion shall be a defense.

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Isaiahs reference to Zion contd

• Isaiah 818 Behold, I and the children whom the
  Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders
  in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth
  in mount Zion.
• Isaiah 1012 Wherefore it shall come to pass,
  that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work
  upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish
  the fruit of the stout heart of the king of
  Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
• Isaiah 1024 Therefore thus saith the Lord God of
  Hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not
  afraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with
  a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee,
  after the manner of Egypt.
• Isaiah 1032 As yet shall he remain at Nob that
  day he shall shake his hand against the mount of
  the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 126 Cry out and shout, thou inhabitant of
  Zion for great is the Holy One of Israel in the
  midst of thee.
• Isaiah 1432 What shall then answer the
  messengers of the nation? That the Lord hath
  founded Zion, and the poor of his people shall
  trust in it.
• Isaiah 161 Send ye the lamb to the ruler of the
  land from Sela to the wilderness, unto the mount
  of the daughter of Zion.
• Isaiah 187 In that time shall the present be
  brought unto the Lord of hosts of a people
  scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible
  from their beginning hitherto a nation meted out
  and trodden underfoot, whose land the rivers have
  spoiled, to the place of the name of the Lord of
  hosts, the mount Zion.
• Isaiah 2423 Then the moon shall be confounded,
  and the sun ashamed, when the Lord of hosts shall
  reign in mount Zion and in Jerusalem, and before
  his ancients gloriously.
• Isaiah 2816 Therefore thus saith the Lord God,
  Behold, I lay in Zion for a foundation a stone, a
  tried stone, a precious cornerstone, a sure
  foundation he that believeth shall not make
  haste.
• Isaiah 298 Yea, it shall be unto them even as
  unto a hungry man who dreameth, and behold, he
  eateth, but he awaketh and his soul is empty or
  like unto a thirsty man who dreameth, and behold,
  he drinketh, but he awaketh, and behold, he is
  faint, and his soul hath appetite. Yea, even so
  shall the multitude of all the nations be that
  fight against mount Zion.

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Isaiahs reference to Zion contd

• Isaiah 3019 For the people shall dwell in Zion
  at Jerusalem thou shalt weep no more he will be
  very gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry
  when he shall hear it, he will answer thee.
• Isaiah 314 For thus hath the Lord spoken unto
  me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring
  on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is
  called forth against him, he will not be afraid
  of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise
  of them so shall the Lord of hosts come down to
  fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.
• Isaiah 319 And he shall pass over to his
  stronghold for fear, and his princes shall be
  afraid of the ensign, saith the Lord, whose fire
  is in Zion, and his furnace in Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 335 The Lord is exalted for he dwelleth
  on high he hath filled Zion with judgment and
  righteousness.
• Isaiah 3314 The sinners in Zion are afraid
  fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who
  among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who
  among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
• Isaiah 3320 Look upon Zion, the city of our
  solemnities thine eyes shall see Jerusalem a
  quiet habitation, a tabernacle that shall not be
  taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall
  ever be removed, neither shall any of the cords
  thereof be broken.
• Isaiah 348 For it is the day of the Lord's
  vengeance, and the year of recompenses for the
  controversy of Zion.
• Isaiah 3510 And the ransomed of the Lord shall
  return, and come to Zion with songs and
  everlasting joy upon their heads they shall
  obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing
  shall flee away.
• Isaiah 3722 This is the word which the Lord hath
  spoken concerning him The virgin, the daughter
  of Zion, hath despised thee, and laughed thee to
  scorn the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her
  head at thee.
• Isaiah 3732 For out of Jerusalem shall go forth
  a remnant and they that escape out of Jerusalem
  shall come up upon mount Zion the zeal of the
  Lord of hosts shall do this.

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Isaiahs reference to Zion contd

• Isaiah 409 O Zion, that bringest good tidings,
  get thee up into the high mountain O Jerusalem,
  that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice
  with strength lift it up, be not afraid say
  unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!
• Isaiah 4127 The first shall say to Zion, Behold,
  behold them and I will give to Jerusalem one
  that bringeth good tidings.
• Isaiah 4613 I bring near my righteousness it
  shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not
  tarry and I will place salvation in Zion for
  Israel my glory.
• Isaiah 4914 But Zion said, The Lord hath
  forsaken me, and my Lord hath forgotten me.
• Isaiah 513 For the Lord shall comfort Zion he
  will comfort all her waste places and he will
  make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert
  like the garden of the Lord joy and gladness
  shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the
  voice of melody.
• Isaiah 5111 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord
  shall return, and come with singing unto Zion
  and everlasting joy and holiness shall be upon
  their heads they shall obtain gladness and joy
  and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.
• Isaiah 5116 And I have put my words in thy
  mouth, and I have covered thee in the shadow of
  mine hand, that I may plant the heavens, and lay
  the foundations of the earth, and say unto Zion,
  Behold, thou art my people.
• Isaiah 521 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O
  Zion put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem,
  the holy city for henceforth there shall no more
  come into thee the uncircumcised and the
  unclean.
• Isaiah 522 Shake thyself from the dust arise,
  and sit down, O Jerusalem loose thyself from the
  bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.
• Isaiah 527 And then shall they say, How
  beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him
  that bringeth good tidings unto them, that
  publisheth peace that bringeth good tidings unto
  them of good, that publisheth salvation that
  saith unto Zion, Thy God reigneth!

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Isaiahs reference to Zion contd

• Isaiah 528 Thy watchmen shall lift up the voice
  with the voice together shall they sing for they
  shall see eye to eye, when the Lord shall bring
  again Zion.
• Isaiah 5920 And the Redeemer shall come to Zion,
  and unto them that turn from transgression in
  Jacob, saith the Lord.
• Isaiah 6014 The sons also of them that afflicted
  thee shall come bending unto thee and all they
  that despised thee shall bow themselves down at
  the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee,
  The city of the Lord, The Zion of the Holy One of
  Israel.
• Isaiah 613 To appoint unto them that mourn in
  Zion to give unto them beauty for ashes, the oil
  of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for
  the spirit of heaviness that they might be
  called trees of righteousness, the planting of
  the Lord, that he might be glorified.
• Isaiah 621 For Zion's sake will I not hold my
  peace, and for Jerusalem's sake I will not rest,
  until the righteousness thereof go forth as
  brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp
  that burneth.
• Isaiah 6211 Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed
  unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter
  of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh behold,
  his reward is with him, and his work before him.
• Isaiah 64Intro Prayer for Christ's second coming
  -- Sins confessed -- Prayer for Zion and
  Jerusalem.
• Isaiah 6410 Thy holy cities are a wilderness,
  Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.
• Isaiah 668 Who hath heard such a thing? who hath
  seen such things? Shall the earth be made to
  bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born
  at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she
  brought forth her children.
• (48 Verses in Isiah use the word Zion)

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Jeremiahs reference to Zion

• Jeremiah 314 Turn, O backsliding children, saith
  the Lord for I am married unto you and I will
  take you one of a city, and two of a family, and
  I will bring you to Zion
• Jeremiah 46 Set up the standard toward Zion
  retire, stay not for I will bring evil from the
  north, and a great destruction.
• Jeremiah 431 For I have heard a voice as of a
  woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that
  bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the
  daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that
  spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for
  my soul is wearied because of murderers.
• Jeremiah 62 I have likened the daughter of Zion
  to a comely and delicate woman.
• Jeremiah 623 They shall lay hold on bow and
  spear they are cruel, and have no mercy their
  voice roareth like the sea and they ride upon
  horses, set in array as men for war against thee,
  O daughter of Zion.
• Jeremiah 819 Behold the voice of the cry of the
  daughter of my people because of them that dwell
  in a far country Is not the Lord in Zion? is not
  her king in her? Why have they provoked me to
  anger with their graven images, and with strange
  vanities?
• Jeremiah 919 For a voice of wailing is heard out
  of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly
  confounded, because we have forsaken the land,
  because our dwellings have cast us out.
• Jeremiah 1419 Hast thou utterly rejected Judah?
  hath thy soul loathed Zion? why hast thou smitten
  us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for
  peace, and there is no good and for the time of
  healing, and behold trouble!

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Jeremiahs reference to Zion contd

• Jeremiah 2618 Micah the Morasthite prophesied in
  the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to
  all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the
  Lord of hosts Zion shall be ploughed like a
  field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the
  mountain of the house of the Lord as the high
  places of a forest.
• Jeremiah 3017 For I will restore health unto
  thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith
  the Lord because they called thee an Outcast,
  saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.
• Jeremiah 316 For there shall be a day, that the
  watchmen upon the mount Ephraim shall cry, Arise
  ye, and let us go up to Zion unto the Lord our
  God.
• Jeremiah 3112 Therefore they shall come and sing
  in the height of Zion, and shall flow together to
  the goodness of the Lord, for wheat, and for
  wine, and for oil, and for the young of the flock
  and of the herd and their soul shall be as a
  watered garden and they shall not sorrow anymore
  at all.
• Jeremiah 505 They shall ask the way to Zion with
  their faces thitherward, saying, Come, and let us
  join ourselves to the Lord in a perpetual
  covenant that shall not be forgotten.
• Jeremiah 5028 The voice of them that flee and
  escape out of the land of Babylon, to declare in
  Zion the vengeance of the Lord our God, the
  vengeance of his temple.
• Jeremiah 5110 The Lord hath brought forth our
  righteousness come, and let us declare in Zion
  the work of the Lord our God.
• Jeremiah 5124 And I will render unto Babylon and
  to all the inhabitants of Chaldea all their evil
  that they have done in Zion in your sight, saith
  the Lord.
• Jeremiah 5135 The violence done to me and to my
  flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of
  Zion say and my blood upon the inhabitants of
  Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
• (17 Verses in Jeremiah use the word Zion)

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Lamentations reference to Zion

• Lamentations 14 The ways of Zion do mourn,
  because none come to the solemn feasts all her
  gates are desolate her priests sigh, her virgins
  are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
• Lamentations 16 And from the daughter of Zion
  all her beauty is departed her princes are
  become like harts that find no pasture, and they
  are gone without strength before the pursuer.
• Lamentations 117 Zion spreadeth forth her hands,
  and there is none to comfort her the Lord hath
  commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries
  should be round about him Jerusalem is as a
  menstruous woman among them.
• Lamentations 21 How hath the Lord covered the
  daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and
  cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty
  of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in
  the day of his anger!
• Lamentations 24 He hath bent his bow like an
  enemy he stood with his right hand as an
  adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the
  eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion he
  poured out his fury like fire.
• Lamentations 26 And he hath violently taken away
  his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden he
  hath destroyed his places of the assembly the
  Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths
  to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the
  indignation of his anger the king and the
  priest.
• Lamentations 28 The Lord hath purposed to
  destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion he hath
  stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his
  hand from destroying therefore he made the
  rampart and the wall to lament they languished
  together.

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Lamentations reference to Zion contd

• Lamentations 210 The elders of the daughter of
  Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence they
  have cast up dust upon their heads they have
  girded themselves with sackcloth the virgins of
  Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
• Lamentations 213 What thing shall I take to
  witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to
  thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal
  to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin
  daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like
  the sea who can heal thee?
• Lamentations 218 Their heart cried unto the
  Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears
  run down like a river day and night give thyself
  no rest let not the apple of thine eye cease.
• Lamentations 42 The precious sons of Zion,
  comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as
  earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the
  potter!
• Lamentations 411 The Lord hath accomplished his
  fury he hath poured out his fierce anger, and
  hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured
  the foundations thereof.
• Lamentations 422 The punishment of thine
  iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion he
  will no more carry thee away into captivity he
  will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom he
  will discover thy sins.
• Lamentations 511 They ravished the women in
  Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.
• Lamentations 518 Because of the mountain of
  Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
• (15 Verses in Lamentations use the word Zion)

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Joels reference to Zion

• Joel 21 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound
  an alarm in my holy mountain let all the
  inhabitants of the land tremble for the day of
  the Lord cometh, for it is nigh at hand
• Joel 215 Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a
  fast, call a solemn assembly
• Joel 223 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and
  rejoice in the Lord your God for he hath given
  you the former rain moderately, and he will cause
  to come down for you the rain, the former rain,
  and the latter rain in the first month.
• Joel 232 And it shall come to pass, that
  whosoever shall call on the name of the Lord
  shall be delivered for in mount Zion and in
  Jerusalem shall be deliverance, as the Lord hath
  said, and in the remnant whom the Lord shall
  call.
• Joel 316 The Lord also shall roar out of Zion,
  and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the
  heavens and the earth shall shake but the Lord
  will be the hope of his people, and the strength
  of the children of Israel.
• Joel 317 So shall ye know that I am the Lord
  your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain then
  shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no
  strangers pass through her anymore.
• Joel 321 For I will cleanse their blood that I
  have not cleansed for the Lord dwelleth in Zion.
• (7 Verses in Joel use the word Zion)

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Amos Obadiah Zion references

• Amos 12 And he said, The Lord will roar from
  Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem and the
  habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the
  top of Carmel shall wither.
• Amos 61 Woe to them that are at ease in Zion,
  and trust in the mountain of Samaria, which are
  named chief of the nations, to whom the house of
  Israel came!
• Obadiah 117 But upon mount Zion shall be
  deliverance, and there shall be holiness and the
  house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
• Obadiah 121 And saviors shall come up on mount
  Zion to judge the mount of Esau and the kingdom
  shall be the Lord's.

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Micah Zion references

• Micah 113 O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the
  chariot to the swift beast she is the beginning
  of the sin to the daughter of Zion for the
  transgressions of Israel were found in thee.
• Micah 310 They build up Zion with blood, and
  Jerusalem with iniquity.
• Micah 312 Therefore shall Zion for your sake be
  ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become
  heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high
  places of the forest.
• Micah 42 And many nations shall come, and say,
  Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the
  Lord, and to the house of the God of Jacob and
  he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in
  his paths for the law shall go forth of Zion,
  and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
• Micah 47 And I will make her that halted a
  remnant, and her that was cast far off a strong
  nation and the Lord shall reign over them in
  mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.
• Micah 48 And thou, O tower of the flock, the
  strong hold of the daughter of Zion, unto thee
  shall it come, even the first dominion the
  kingdom shall come to the daughter of Jerusalem.
• Micah 410 Be in pain, and labor to bring forth,
  O daughter of Zion, like a woman in travail for
  now shalt thou go forth out of the city, and thou
  shalt dwell in the field, and thou shalt go even
  to Babylon there shalt thou be delivered there
  the Lord shall redeem thee from the hand of thine
  enemies.
• Micah 411 Now also many nations are gathered
  against thee, that say, Let her be defiled, and
  let our eye look upon Zion.
• Micah 413 Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion
  for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make
  thy hoofs brass and thou shalt beat in pieces
  many people and I will consecrate their gain
  unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord
  of the whole earth.
• (9 Verses in Micah uses the word Zion)

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Zephaniah Zion references

• Zephaniah 314 Sing, O daughter of Zion shout, O
  Israel be glad and rejoice with all the heart, O
  daughter of Jerusalem.
• Zephaniah 316 In that day it shall be said to
  Jerusalem, Fear thou not and to Zion, Let not
  thine hands be slack.

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Zechariah Zion references

• Zechariah 114 So the angel that communed with me
  said unto me, Cry thou, saying, Thus saith the
  Lord of hosts I am jealous for Jerusalem and for
  Zion with a great jealousy.
• Zechariah 117 Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the
  Lord of hosts My cities through prosperity shall
  yet be spread abroad and the Lord shall yet
  comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.
• Zechariah 27 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that
  dwellest with the daughter of Babylon.
• Zechariah 210 Sing and rejoice, O daughter of
  Zion for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the
  midst of thee, saith the Lord.
• Zechariah 82 Thus saith the Lord of hosts I was
  jealous for Zion with great jealousy, and I was
  jealous for her with great fury.
• Zechariah 83 Thus saith the Lord I am returned
  unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of
  Jerusalem and Jerusalem shall be called a city
  of truth and the mountain of the Lord of hosts
  the holy mountain.
• Zechariah 99 Rejoice greatly, O daughter of
  Zion shout, O daughter of Jerusalem behold, thy
  King cometh unto thee he is just, and having
  salvation lowly, and riding upon an ass, and
  upon a colt the foal of an ass.
• Zechariah 913 When I have bent Judah for me,
  filled the bow with Ephraim, and raised up thy
  sons, O Zion, against thy sons, O Greece, and
  made thee as the sword of a mighty man.
• (8 Verses in Zechariah uses the word Zion)

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Other books of Antiquity

• Pseudopigrapha books
• works that are attributed to various famous
  figures but the actual author is unknown
• Deuterocanonical books
• extra books in the Old Testament contained in the
  Catholic and Orthodox Bibles and not in the
  Protestant Bibles
• more commonly called the Old Testament Apocrypha

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Other books of Antiquity contd

• Septuagint (LXX, seventy in Roman numerals)
• 300BC, a large Jewish community sprung up in
  Alexandria and many other Greek cities around the
  Mediterranean Sea. There was a great library in
  Alexandria and the Pharaoh, one Ptolemy II,
  ordered that it should contain a copy of the
  Hebrew Scriptures translated into Greek. The
  finest Jewish scholars ordered to assemble in
  Alexandria to undertake the great work of
  translation. Seventy two scribes, six from each
  of the twelve tribes, each produced a Greek copy
  of the Pentateuch absolutely identical to all the
  others. This was seen as a sign that the new
  translation was divinely inspired and it became
  widely accepted by Greek speaking Jews as an
  acceptable (and understandable) substitute for
  the Hebrew original.
• Known as Greek Old Testament
• (from Josephus)

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Other books of Antiquity contd

• The truth is that well before the birth of
  Christ, the Septuagint was being used by the Jews
  of the Diaspora and was familiar even to those
  still in Palestine. This meant that the main
  focus of Jewish intellectual life switched from
  Hebrew into Greek - the lingua franca of the
  Mediterranean - and additions to the scriptures
  made after about 300BC were usually in that
  language.
• It is these additions that now make up the OT
  Apocrypha and most of them were never written in
  Hebrew.

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Other books of Antiquity contd

• OT Apocrypha
• 14 books
• OT Pseudopigrapha
• many books includes the Book of Enoch
• Book of Enoch
• Christ refers to this book
• it is more Christian in nature than Jewish
• it speaks of Zion in the latter days
• The Kaballa
• contains theologies like reincarnation and
  spiritual poles
• attributed as old teachings of Israel
• actually written down in the 1100s AD

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Other books of Antiquity contd

• New Testament (NT)
• 27 books
• NT Apocrypha
• 17 books
• NT Pseudopigrapha
• about 280 books
• Main factor in New Testament canonization
• whether it was known to have come from an Apostle

48

• Key distinction in the Inspired Version of the
  Bible is Enochs City. What do other versions
  say about Enoch?

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Enoch in King James Bible OT

• Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and
  begot Enoch. After he begot Enoch, Jared lived
  eight hundred years, and had sons and daughters.
  So all the days of Jared were nine hundred and
  sixty-two years and he died. Enoch lived
  sixty-five years, and begot Methuselah. After he
  begot Methuselah, Enoch walked with God three
  hundred years, and had sons and daughters. So all
  the days of Enoch were three hundred and
  sixty-five years. And Enoch walked with God and
  he was not, for God took him.
• Genesis 518-24

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Enoch in King James Bible NT

• By faith Enoch was taken away so that he did not
  see death, "and was not found, because God had
  taken him" for before he was taken he had this
  testimony, that he pleased God.
• Hebrews 115
• Now Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied
  about these men also, saying, "Behold, the Lord
  comes with ten thousands of His saints, to
  execute judgment on all, to convict all who are
  ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds
  which they have committed in an ungodly way, and
  of all the harsh things which ungodly sinners
  have spoken against Him.
• Jude 114-15

51

• How did they come to understand the vision of
  Zion from the Restoration of the fullness of the
  gospel?

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• September 23, 1827
• Joseph Smith, Jr. received the golden plates,
  from which the Book of Mormorn (BOM) was
  translated, from the angel Moroni
• April 5, 1829 (DC 6)
• DC 63a first stated to establish the cause of
  Zion other scriptures followed with similar
  direction, see DC 103a, DC 113b, DC 123a, DC
  192d,
• March 26, 1830
• BOM first advertised for sale. The BOM contained
  information about a New Jerusalem, but with just
  this information, plus considering the amount of
  new information, my guess is that they did not
  have much understanding about Zion yet.
• April 6, 1830
• Church Organized

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• June 1830
• Joseph Smith commenced with the revision of the
  Bible to create our Inspired Version of the
  Bible. Enoch City expands our understanding of
  Zion.
• July 1830 (DC 23)
• DC 234a This revelation is given due to the
  persecution that Joseph and Oliver received
  because of the BOM. Joseph Smith is told, For
  thou shalt devote all thy service in Zion. And in
  this thou shalt have strength.
• August 1830 (DC 28)
• DC 282d states that the chosen shall be gathered
  in unto one place to prepare against the day that
  tribulation and desolation are sent forth upon
  the wicked. It does not, however, call this
  place Zion.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• December 1830 (DC 34)
• Revelation given to Sidney Rigdon which clarifies
  that Zion will be a physical entity. DC 346a,
  Keep all the commandments and covenants by which
  ye are bound, and I will cause the heavens to
  shake for your good, and Satan shall tremble, and
  Zion shall rejoice upon the hills, and flourish
  and Israel shall be saved in mine own due time.
• December 1830 (DC 36)
• A revelation was given on the prophecy of Enoch
  which is now DC 36 and Genesis 71-78. This was
  a major step in our understanding of Zion for it
  clarified the power that God would give His
  servants, the degree of righteousness that was
  required, and the great reward that could be
  obtained to dwell with God. Additionally, it
  substantiated that this standard of living was
  possible with the Spirit of God dwelling in man.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• Early January 1831 (DC 38)
• Lord says that he deigns to give greater riches,
  even a land of promise, a land flowing with milk
  and honey, upon which there shall be no curse
  when the Lord cometh if we seek it with all our
  hearts. This shall be the Lords covenant with
  us that we shall have it for the land of our
  inheritance while the earth shall stand and we
  shall possess it again in eternity, no more to
  pass away.
• January 1831 (DC 39)
• Revelation given to James Covill, a Baptist
  minister, who sought light concerning his
  relation to the Restoration movement, but it
  applies to all. It clearly states that the
  church is to again bring forth a physical Zion
  for DC 394b says, Thou art called to labor in
  my vineyard, and to build up my church, and to
  bring forth Zion, that it may rejoice upon the
  hills and flourish.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• February 1831
• Joseph Emma arrived in Kirtland, Ohio via sled.
• February 9, 1831 (DC 42 43)
• DC 42 a revelation given in the presence of
  twelve elders which was viewed as the Laws of the
  Church. It included direction (DC 4210bc) to
  have a storehouse to administer to the poor and
  needy, to purchase lands, build houses of
  worship, and to build up the New Jerusalem.
  Notice, this is the first tie in with the BOM by
  using this terminology for Zion.
• Also worth noting is that they now understood
  clearly that Jesus Christ would come to the
  temple that they were to build in Zion.
• Additionally, in February 1831 given in DC 437b
  it states, for in my own due time will I come
  upon the earth in judgment and my people shall
  be redeemed and shall reign with me on earth.
  This was a distinct theological shift that their
  heaven was not somewhere else, but on earth.
  Recall that before this their understanding was
  that Enochs city was taken to be with God.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• March 7, 1831 (DC 45)
• The Saints were experiencing much hardship, due
  to the persecution and the large amount of poor
  gathering quickly at Kirtland. With this in mind
  DC 45 was received that promised hope in the
  vision of Zion. Specifically it promised,
• in v. 12 that the terror of the Lord would be in
  Zion and that the wicked would not come upon it
• in v. 13 that those who would not take up sword
  against his neighbor must flee to Zion for
  safety and
• in v. 14 that the righteous should be gathered
  out from all nations to come to Zion singing with
  songs of everlasting joy.
• March 1831 (DC 49)
• Later this same month in DC 495 the promise was
  given that Zion shall flourish and that gathering
  should take place where the Lord appoints.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• Early June 1831 (DC 52)
• God first designated the location for Zion. DC
  522e, if ye are faithful, ye shall assemble
  yourselves together to rejoice upon the land of
  Missouri, which is the land of your inheritance,
  which is now the land of your enemies.
• June 1831 (DC 54)
• The people first directed to go to the location
  of Zion. DC 542, Wherefore, go to now and flee
  the land, lest your enemies come upon you and
  take your journey, and appoint whom you will to
  be your leader, and to pay moneys for you. And
  thus you shall take your journey into the regions
  westward, and unto the land of Missouri, unto the
  borders of the Lamanites. And after you have done
  journeying, behold, I say unto you, Seek ye a
  living like unto men, until I prepare a place for
  you.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• July 1831 (DC 57)
• First revelation given in the land of Zion, given
  to those elders who were faithful in going to
  this land as directed. Their efforts were
  validated with further clarification of where the
  temple should be built, for DC 571 says,
  Hearken, O ye elders of my church saith the Lord
  your God, who have assembled yourselves together,
  according to my commandments, in this land which
  is the land of Missouri, which is the land which
  I have appointed and consecrated for the
  gathering of the Saints wherefore this is the
  land of promise, and the place for the city of
  Zion. And thus saith the Lord your God, If you
  will receive wisdom here is wisdom. Behold, the
  place which is now called Independence, is the
  Center Place, and the spot for the temple is
  lying westward upon a lot which is not far from
  the courthouse wherefore it is wisdom that the
  land should be purchased by the Saints and also
  every tract lying westward, even unto the line
  running directly between Jew and Gentile. And
  also every tract bordering by the prairies,
  inasmuch as my disciples are enabled to buy
  lands. Behold, this is wisdom, that they may
  obtain it for an everlasting inheritance.
• Additionally, in this revelation they are
  directed to establish a storehouse and a house
  for printing.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• August 1, 1831 (DC 58)
• First week in Zion, four revelations given and
  many events occurred including the dedication of
  the temple and the first conference held in the
  land of Zion. As more Saints arrive in
  Independence DC 58 given to further direct them.
• specifically they are told in v. 4 that Gods law
  shall be kept on this land
• in v.10c to purchase the whole region round about
• in v. 13a to consecrate and dedicate this land
  and the spot for the temple unto the Lord
• furthermore, in v. 15d the vision is expanded
  that from this place the gospel will go forth
  unto all the world with signs that follow those
  that believe

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• August 7, 1831 (DC 59 Ground Rules for those
  entering Zion)
• Acknowledgement
• Those who obey the gospel are blessed and shall
  inherit and receive the good things from the
  earth
• Promises
• When they die they shall rest from their labors
  and their works shall follow them
• They shall receive a crown in the mansions of my
  Father
• They shall receive commandments and revelations
  in due time if diligent and faithful
• Conditions
• 10 Commandments
• Thank the Lord God in all things
• Offer a sacrifice of a broken heart and contrite
  spirit
• More fully keep thyself unspotted from the world
• Offer up thy oblations and sacraments at the
  house of prayer on the Holy day
• Confess thy sins unto thy brethren before the
  Lord
• On Holy day do none other thing, only let thy
  food be prepared
• Reward
• Fullness of the earth is yours to strengthen the
  body and enliven the soul
• Clarification
• In nothing doth man offend God save those who
  confess not his hand in all things and obey not
  His commandments

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• September 11 1831 (DC 64 To Elders returning to
  Zion)
• Verse 5, Now it is called to-day (until the
  coming of the Son of Man), and verily it is a day
  of sacrifice, and a day for the tithing of my
  people for he that is tithed shall not be burned
  (at his coming) for after to-day cometh the
  burning Tomorrow all the proud and they that do
  wickedly shall be as stubble and I will burn
  them up, for I am the Lord of hosts and I will
  not spare any that remaineth in Babylon.
• Verse 6bc, He Lord hath set you to provide for
  his Saints in these last days, that they may
  obtain an inheritance in the land of Zion, and,
  I, the Lord, declare unto you, and my words are
  sure and shall not fail, that they shall obtain
  it but all things must come to pass in their
  time wherefore be not weary in well-doing, for
  ye are laying the foundation of a great work.
  And out of small things proceedeth that which is
  great.
• Verse 7c, Behold, I, the Lord, have made my
  church in these last days, like unto a judge
  sitting on a hill, or in a high place, to judge
  the nations for it shall come to pass, that the
  inhabitants of Zion shall judge all things
  pertaining to Zion.
• Verse 8ab, Zion shall flourish, and the glory of
  the Lord shall be upon her, and she shall be an
  ensign unto the people, and there shall come unto
  her out of every nation under heaven. And the
  day shall come, when the nations of the earth
  shall tremble because of her, and shall fear
  because of her terrible ones. The Lord hath
  spoken it. Amen.

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Latter Day Development of the Vision of Zion

• October 1831 (DC 66)
• Elder William McLellin told to, push many
  people to Zion. This applied more to the
  office, so broader interpretation obvious.
• June 1831 (DC 54)

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• Zion means
• monument raised up sepulcher
• A sign
• Ben-Tziyon From the Hebrew, meaning excellence
  or son of Zion. 
• Zion or Tzion (???? "Height", Standard Hebrew
  ?iyyon, Tiberian Hebrew ?iyy?bgt Arabic ?????
  ?uhyun) originally was the specific name given to
  a Jebusite fortress near modern-day Jerusalem
  that was conquered by David. The original
  fortress was located on the hill in southeastern
  Jerusalem, called Mount Zion.
• Zion, or Sion, is an archaic term that originally
  referred to a section of Jerusalem, which, by
  Biblical definition, is the City of David. After
  the death of King David, the term Zion came to
  refer to the hill in Jerusalem which was the site
  of Solomon's temple. Later, Zion came to refer to
  temple and the temple grounds themselves. Beyond
  that, Zion is used to symbolize Jerusalem and the
  Promised Land of God to come, in which God dwells
  among his chosen people.

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Temple Mount in Israel

• http//www.bibleplaces.com/westernwall.htm
• http//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Societ
  y__Culture/geo/Mount.html
• http//www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early20History
  20-20Archaeology/Archaeological20Sites20in20Is
  rael20-20The20Western20Wall

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Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes

• http//www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Histor
  y/sadducees_pharisees_essenes.html

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How is Zion Established?

• Answer is the rest of this Presentation.

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MESSIAH
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• Jesus Calling

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What is Messiahs Ultimate Purpose?

• may the kingdom of God go forth on the
  earth, that the kingdom of heaven may come, that
  thou, O God, may be glorified in heaven, so on
  earth, that thy enemies may be subdued for
  thine is the honor, power, and glory, for ever
  and ever. Amen.
• DC 651f

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Kingdom of Heaven Means

• But behold, an awful death cometh upon the
  wicked for they die as to things pertaining to
  things of righteousness for they are unclean,
  and no unclean thing can inherit the kingdom of
  God.
• Alma 1960
• "No unclean thing can enter into the Celestial
  Kingdom."III Nephi 1231
• For no unclean thing can dwell there, or dwell
  in His presence for, in the language of Adam,
  Man of Holiness is his name and the name of his
  Only Begotten is the Son of Man, even Jesus
  Christ, a righteous judge, who shall come in the
  meridian of time.
• Genesis 650

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Seeking the Face of God

• Job 3326 He shall pray unto God, and he will be
  favorable unto him and he shall see his face
  with joy for he will render unto man his
  righteousness
• I Chronicles 1611 Seek the Lord and his
  strength, seek his face continually.Psalms 1054
  Seek the Lord, and his strength seek his face
  evermore.
• Psalms 246 This is the generation of them that
  seek him, that seek thy face, O Jacob. Selah.
• DC 833c-4b Therefore, in the ordinances thereof
  the power of godliness is manifest and without
  the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the
  priesthood, the power of godliness is not
  manifest unto men in the flesh for without this,
  no man can see the face of God, even the Father,
  and live. 4a Now, this Moses plainly taught to
  the children of Israel in the wilderness, and
  sought diligently to sanctify his people that
  they might behold the face of God 4b but they
  hardened their hearts, and co