Roger K. Young

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ESTABLISHING THE CITY OF ZION THE HOLY CITY OF
NEW JERUSALEM

• Roger K. Young

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• were it possible that man could number the
  particles of the earth,
• yea, millions of earths like this,
• it would not be a beginning to the number of thy
  creations
• Moses 730

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OF ALL OF THE EVENTS AND LOCATIONS IN THE ENTIRE
UNIVERSETRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS OF WORLDS
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WHAT IS THE GREATEST?
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• What are the two events? One has taken place
  already
• A. The birth in mortality, ministry, atonement,
  death, and resurrection from the dead of Jesus
  Christthe only begotten in the flesh, the Son of
  Elohim, the Father.
• In all the worlds, in all the galaxies, in all
  the heavens they all prophesied, waited, and
  celebrated that event.

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• The second event, is about to happen
• It too will have an effect throughout the
  billions of galaxies. It too has been prophesied
  about and the inhabitants of a billion worlds,
  along with every prophet of this world since the
  time of Adam have been anxiously waiting for this
  next great event to take place. It is the
  establishment of

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ZIONTHE NEW JERUSALEMTHE HOLY CITY OF
LIGHTTHE HEART OF THE CELESTIAL CITY OF GLORY
OF JESUS CHRIST FOR ALL ETERNITY
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ACTUALLY, THERE IS A GREAT DICHOTOMY CONCERNING
THIS EARTH
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THE GREAT DICHOTOMY

• And thou hast taken Zion to thine own bosom, from
  all thy creations, from all eternity to all
  eternity
• Moses 731

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• And righteousness will I send down out of heaven
  and truth will I send forth out of the earth, to
  bear testimony of mine Only Begotten his
  resurrection from the dead yea, and also the
  resurrection of all men and righteousness and
  truth will I cause to sweep the earth as with a
  flood, to gather out mine elect from the four
  quarters of the earth, unto a place which I shall
  prepare, an Holy City, that my people may gird up
  their loins, and be looking forth for the time of
  my coming for there shall be my tabernacle, and
  it shall be called Zion, a New Jerusalem.
• And the Lord said unto Enoch Then shalt thou
  and all thy city meet them there, and we will
  receive them into our bosom, and they shall see
  us and we will fall upon their necks, and they
  shall fall upon our necks, and we will kiss each
  other
• And there shall be mine abode, and it shall be
  Zion, which shall come forth out of all the
  creations which I have made and for the space of
  a thousand years the earth shall rest.
• Moses 762-64

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• I can stretch forth mine hands and hold all the
  creations which I have made and mine eye can
  pierce them also, and among all the workmanship
  of mine hands there has not been so great
  wickedness as among thy brethren.
• Moses 736

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• Moroni explained
• "Behold, Ether saw the days of Christ, and he
  spake concerning a New Jerusalem upon this land.
• "And he spake also concerning the house of
  Israel, and the Jerusalem from whence Lehi should
  come--after it should be destroyed it should be
  built up again, a holy city unto the Lord
  wherefore, it could not be a new Jerusalem for it
  had been in a time of old but it should be built
  up again, and become a holy city of the Lord and
  it should be built unto the house of Israel.
• "And that a New Jerusalem should be built
  upon this land, unto the remnant of the seed of
  Joseph, for which things there has been a type."
• Ether 144-6

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• 22 And behold, this people will I establish
  in this land, unto the fulfilling of the covenant
  which I made with your father Jacob and it shall
  be a New Jerusalem. And the powers of heaven
  shall be in the midst of this people yea, even I
  will be in the midst of you.
• 22 But if they will repent and hearken unto
  my words, and harden not their hearts, I will
  establish my church among them, and they shall
  come in unto the covenant and be numbered among
  this the remnant of Jacob, unto whom I have given
  this land for their inheritance
• 23 And they shall assist my people, the
  remnant of Jacob, and also as many of the house
  of Israel as shall come, that they may build a
  city, which shall be called the New Jerusalem.
• 24 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.
• 25 And then shall the power of heaven come
  down among them and I also will be in the midst.
• 3 Nephi 2022-25

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How Important is the establishing of ZION in
the Last Days?
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• "The building up of Zion is a cause that has
  interested the people of God in every age it is
  a theme upon which prophets, priests and kings
  have dwelt with peculiar delight they have
  looked forward with joyful anticipation to the
  day in which we live and fired with heavenly and
  joyful anticipations they have sung and written
  and prophesied of this our day
• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section
  Four 1839-42, p.231

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• "AdamSeth, Enos, Jared, Cainan, Mahaleel,
  Enoch, and Methusaleh. All these men received
  this high and holy priesthood. They all professed
  to give revelation. They all had inspiration and
  left their record on the earth and not one of
  them but what saw and prophesied about the great
  Zion of God in the latter days. And when we say
  this of them we say it of every apostle and
  prophet who ever lived upon the earth."
• Wilford Woodruff, JD 16263-264, October 8, 1873,
  p.16 - p.17

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• The building up of Zion isa work that God and
  angels have contemplated with delight for
  generations past that fired the souls of the
  ancient patriarchs and prophets a work that is
  destined to bring about the destruction of the
  powers of darkness, the renovation of the earth,
  the glory of God, and the salvation of the human
  family.
• Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, Section
  Four 1839-42, p.231

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• "...We ought to have the building up of Zion
  as our greatest object. When wars come, we shall
  flee to Zion."
• DHC. Vol. III. p. 390

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• "The purpose of our life should be to build
  up the Zion of our God, to gather the House of
  Israel, bring in the fullness of the Gentiles,
  restore and bless the earth with our ability and
  make it as the Garden of Eden, store up treasures
  of knowledge and wisdom in our own
  understandings, purify our own hearts and prepare
  a people to meet the Lord when he comes."
• Discourses of Brigham Young, p. 88, 10222

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• "We have no business here other than to build up
  and establish the Zion of God. It must be done
  according to the will and law of God, after that
  pattern and order by which Enoch built up and
  perfected the former-day Zion,
• Discourses of Brigham Young p.443, 18356

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• "WHY THE PRIESTHOOD? AN ORGANIZED POWER TO BUILD
  ZION.Now, God has ordained his holy priesthood
  upon the earth with presidents, apostles,
  bishops, high councils, seventies, high priests,
  and the order and organization of the church and
  kingdom of God in its fulness and completeness,
  more complete, perhaps, than it ever was since
  the world was framed. Why? Because it is the
  dispensation of the fulness of times, embracing
  all other times that have ever existed since the
  world was, and he has gathered us together for
  that purpose.
• "I would further ask What is this
  priesthood given us for? That we may be enabled
  to build up the Zion of our God.
• John Taylor, The Gospel Kingdom, p.130-131

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• "The priesthood is called to establish Zion. We
  are told that the priesthood is not called to
  work for money, but to establish Zion."
• Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p.181

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WHAT IS ZION?

• 1. A CELESTIAL SPIRITUAL STATE
• 2. A GROUP OF PEOPLE WHO ARE LIVING THE 3 LAWS OF
  THE CELESTIAL KINGDOM
• 3. A SPECIFIC LOCATION(s).

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Specific Location(s)

• 3 Special/Sacred Locations in the world. All
  have been described as past and future locations
  of a city of Zion
• 1. Old Jerusalem
• 2. New Jerusalem
• 3. City of Enoch

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• "In the day of regeneration, when all things are
  made new, there will be three great cities that
  will be holy. One will be the Jerusalem of old
  which shall be rebuilt according to the prophecy
  of Ezekiel. One will be the city of Zion, or of
  Enoch, which was taken from the earth when Enoch
  was translated and which will be restored and
  the city Zion, or New Jerusalem, which is to be
  built by the seed of Joseph on this the American
  continent.
• Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel
  Questions, Vol.2, p.105

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NEW JERUSALEM
JERUSALEM
CITY OF ENOCH
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City of Enoch

• "It would appear that the translated residents of
  Enoch's city are under the direction of Jesus,
  who is the Creator of worlds and that he,
  holding the keys of the government of other
  worlds could, in his administrations to them,
  select the translated people of Enoch's Zion, if
  he thought proper, to perform a mission to these
  various planets, and as death had not passed upon
  them, they could be prepared by him and made use
  of through the medium of the holy priesthood to
  act as ambassadors, teachers, or messengers to
  those worlds over which Jesus holds the
  authority."
• John Taylor, The Gospel Kingdom, p.103

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City of Old Jerusalem

• "From this definite account of driving the
  "nations apart, when the ancient hills did bow,"
  all reflecting minds may judge that man was
  scattered over the whole face of the earth And
  with the superior knowledge of men like Noah,
  Shem, (who was Melchisedec) and Abram, the father
  of the faithful, three contemporaries, holding
  the keys of the highest order of the priesthood"
  John Taylor, Times and Seasons, Vol.5, p.746 
• Also, in DC 138, when delineating the great
  prophets of old, between Noah and Abraham, Shem
  is called the great high priest. In every other
  instance where this is done, Melchizedek is
  listed as the great high priest, again bolstering
  the point that they were the same person.
• "Noah, who gave warning of the flood Shem, the
  great high priest Abraham, the father of the
  faithful Isaac, Jacob, and Moses, the great
  law-giver of Israel"
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• DC 13841
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The NEW JERUSLAEM

• A CHOICE LAND ABOVE ALL OTHER LANDS

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NEW JERUSALEM

• Location of Garden of Eden personally planted by
  the Gods (eastward in Eden)

• Original Location of the Tree of Life
  (immortality) and Tree of Knowledge (mortality)

• Where God the Father Jehovah walked and talked
  to Adam (Michael)

• Where the Fall took place

• 90 miles from Adam-ondi-Ahman

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THE PAST/FUTURE

• City of Enoch is gone, but will return, be joined
  with New Jerusalem and return to earth.
• Though special and holy places, both JERUSALEM
  and NEW JERUSALEM will be deserted and left
  desolate for a number of years.
• In the Latter Days, after the restoration of the
  Gospel and Priesthood to the earth, and the
  re-establishment of the Church of Jesus Christ...
  both cities will begin to be established.
• This will consist of both a physical gathering
  and a spiritual gathering. (There are 4 types of
  gathering)

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• 4 Purposes/Types/Doctrines of Gathering

• 1. Spiritual Gathering to Christ/Gospel/Ordinances

• 2. Physical Gathering to Lands of Promises

• 3. Physical Gathering for Safety

• 4. Physical Gathering for Perfection

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PHYSICAL GATHERING

• In Last daysPeople will be physically gathered.
  Jews to Old Jerusalem, Ephraim, Manassah(the
  majority), and Adopted Gentiles to the New
  Jerusalem.
• During this process of GatheringOld Jerusalem
  and New Jerusalem will both be cleansed of
  wickedness, (including hypocrites), and purified
• (Isaiah, especially Chapters 3 4, Revelation of
  John, Doctrine Covenants, numerous prophecies
  give details on this)

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Future

• New Jerusalem will be cleansed first
• 13 month war/Earthquake/Flood.
• WATER/WASHING
• Old Jerusalem will be cleansed last
  Armageddon war/Earthquake/Great Hailstorm of
  fire)
• FIRE/BURNING

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• 2 In that day shall the branch of the Lord be
  beautiful and glorious the fruit of the earth
  excellent and comely to them that are escaped of
  Israel.
• 3 And it shall come to pass, they that are
  left in Zion and remain in Jerusalem shall be
  called holy, every one that is written among the
  living in Jerusalem
• 4 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.
• 5 And the Lord will create upon every
  dwelling-place of mount Zion, and upon her
  assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day and the
  shining of a flaming fire by night for upon all
  the glory of Zion shall be a defence.
• 6 And there shall be a tabernacle for a
  shadow in the daytime from the heat, and for a
  place of refuge, and a covert from storm and from
  rain.
• 2 Nephi 142-6

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Future

• The Holy City of New Jerusalem will be started
  BEFORE the full cleansing of Old Jerusalem will
  be finished.
• During the Armageddon War, the call will go out
  to the world to gather to New Jerusalem if they
  want peace and safety. Go ye forth of Babylon,
  flee They will come singing the songs of Zion.

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Future

• Ephraim will be located in two locations, Utah
  and Independence, Missouri and will grow together
  and eventually become a city of 1500 square
  miles.
• At the destruction of the Earth by Fire, the
  righteous dead will come forth, New Jerusalem
  will be raised up from the earth (the rapture),
  and meet with the City of Enoch in the heavens.

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Wheat Tares

• Therefore, I must gather together my people,
  according to the parable of the wheat and the
  tares, that the wheat may be secured in the
  garners to possess eternal life, and be crowned
  with celestial glory, when I shall come in the
  kingdom of my Father to reward every man
  according as his work shall be
• While the tares shall be bound in bundles,
  and their bands made strong, that they may be
  burned with unquenchable fire. DC
  10165-66

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• "And it shall be called the New Jerusalem, a land
  of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for
  the saints of the Most High God
• "And the glory of the Lord shall be there, and
  the terror of the Lord also shall be there,
  insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it,
  and it shall be called Zion.
• "And it shall come to pass among the wicked, that
  every man that will not take his sword against
  his neighbor must needs flee unto Zion for
  safety.
• "And there shall be gathered unto it out of every
  nation under heaven and it shall be the only
  people that shall not be at war one with another.
• "And it shall be said among the wicked Let us
  not go up to battle against Zion, for the
  inhabitants of Zion are terrible wherefore we
  cannot stand.
• "And it shall come to pass that the righteous
  shall be gathered out from among all nations, and
  shall come to Zion, singing with songs of
  everlasting joy."
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ESTABLISHING ZION

• Note that the people FIRST became a zion type
  people and then they built the city of Zion.
• And the Lord called his people ZION, because they
  were of one heart and one mind, and dwelt in
  righteousness and there was no poor among them.
• And Enoch continued his preaching in
  righteousness unto the people of God. And it came
  to pass in his days, that he built a city that
  was called the City of Holiness, even ZION.
• Moses 718-19

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THE 3 PRINCIPLES OF THE LAW OF THE CELESTIAL
KINGDOMWHICH IS REQUIRED TO BE LIVED TO
ESTABLISH A ZION TYPE SOCIETY
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• 2 Behold, I say unto you, were it not for the
  transgressions of my people, speaking concerning
  the church and not individuals, they might have
  been redeemed even now.
• 3 But behold, they have not learned to be
  obedient to the things which I required at their
  hands, but are full of all manner of evil, and do
  not impart of their substance, as becometh
  saints, to the poor and afflicted among tm
• 4 And are not united according to the union
  required by the law of the celestial kingdom
• 5 And Zion cannot be built up unless it is by
  the principles of the law of the celestial
  kingdom otherwise I cannot receive her unto
  myself.
• 6 And my people must needs be chastened until
  they learn obedience, if it must needs be, by the
  things which they suffer.
• DC 1052-6

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REQUIRED OF THE SAINTSto Become Zion

• 1. OBEDIENCE Obey ALL of the commandments
• 2. CHARITY/LOVE OF CHRIST
• Putting the needs of others ahead
  of our own,
• including our own lives if
  required
• 3. UNITY Becoming one in purpose, doctrine,
• desires, goals as Christ is
  with the
• Father
• DC 105, John Chapters 14-17

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BECOMING ZION-PROCESS
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KNOWLEDGE
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GIFTS of the SPIRIT
Of Truth, Laws Commandments
Prophecy, wisdom, understanding,
tongues, visions, knowledge
OBEDIENCE
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TESTING
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FRUITS of the SPIRIT
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The SPIRIT/HG
Charity/love, gentleness, kindness, forgiveness,
meekness
Brings everything else
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Witness it is TRUE
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• The LAW OF CONSECRETION
• A subset of the Law of the Celestial kingdom
• Equal in earthly things

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• That you may be equal in the bonds of heavenly
  things, yea, and earthly things also, for the
  obtaining of heavenly things.
• For if ye are not equal in earthly things ye
  cannot be equal in obtaining heavenly things
• For if you will that I give unto you a place in
  the celestial world, you must prepare yourselves
  by doing the things which I have commanded you
  and required of you.
• DC 785-7

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The LAW OF CONSECRETION

• STEP 1 First Consecration
• STEP 2 Assignment (deed) of Private Property
  (an Inheritance/Stewardship)
• STEP 3 Second Consecration (Tithing)

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• the full Law of Consecration/United Order/ Order
  of Enoch has never been practiced since the time
  it was discontinued in 1838. In Section 105, the
  Lord indicates that the law of consecration will
  not be practiced in its entirety until Zion is
  redeemed. This is inferred from DC 10534
• "And let those commandments which I have given
  concerning Zion and her law be executed and
  fulfilled, after her redemption."

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• "This is a simple outline of how things will
  exist with regard to some of these matters, when
  the law of God shall be fully carried out. Our
  relations with the world, and our own
  imperfections prevent the establishment of this
  system at the present time, and therefore, as was
  stated by Joseph in an early day, it can not yet
  be carried out."1
• 1 Messages of the First Presidency, 2339
  J.Reuben Clark

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We Must Pass Through Trialsto establish Zion

• "All intelligent beings who are crowned with
  crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives
  must pass through every ordeal appointed for
  intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their
  glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can
  come upon mortal beings will be suffered to come
  upon the few, to prepare them to enjoy the
  presence of the Lord. If we obtain the glory that
  Abraham obtained, we must do so by the same means
  that he did. If we are ever prepared to enjoy the
  society of Enoch, Noah, Melchizedek, Abraham,
  Isaac, and Jacob, or of their faithful children,
  and of the faithful Prophets and Apostles, we
  must pass through the same experience, and gain
  the knowledge, intelligence, and endowments that
  will prepare us to enter into the celestial
  kingdom of our Father and God. How many of the
  Latter-day Saints will endure all these things,
  and be prepared to enjoy the presence of the
  Father and the Son? You can answer that question
  at your leisure. Every trial and experience you
  have passed through is necessary for your
  salvation."
• Discourses of Brigham Young, p.345, 8150

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The TRIP BACK

• And righteousness and truth will I cause to
  sweep the earth as with a flood, to gather out
  mine elect from the four quarters of the earth,
  unto a place which I shall prepare, an Holy City,
  that my people may gird up their loins, and be
  looking forth for the time of my coming for
  there shall be my tabernacle, and it shall be
  called Zion, a New Jerusalem." 1
• 1 Moses 760-62

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The TRIP BACK

• "....When God leads the people back to Jackson
  County, how will he do it? Let me picture to you
  how some of us may be gathered and led to Jackson
  County. I think I see two or three hundred
  thousand people wending their way across the
  great plain, enduring the nameless hardships of
  the journey, herding and guarding their cattle by
  day and by night, and defending themselves and
  little ones from foes on the right hand and on
  the left, as when they came here.
• "Now, mark it. And though you may be led by the
  power of God "with a stretched-out arm," it will
  not be more manifest than the leading the people
  out here to those that participate in it. They
  will think there are a great many hardships to
  endure in this manifestation of the power of God,
  and it will be left, perhaps to their children,
  to see the glory of our former deliverance, from
  the hands of those that sought to destroy
  usWhen it is written in history--as it will be
  written --it will be shown forth to future
  generations as one of the most marvelous,
  unexampled and unprecedented accomplishments that
  has ever been known to history." 1
• Joseph F. Smith, Journal of Discourses Vol. 24,
  pp. 156-157, December 3, 1882

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The GLORY of ZION

• "And the glory of the Lord shall be there, and
  the terror of the Lord also shall be there,
  insomuch that the wicked will not come unto it,
  and it shall be called Zion.
• "My people must be tried in all things, that they
  may be prepared to receive the glory that I have
  for them, even the glory of Zion and he that
  will not bear chastisement is not worthy of my
  kingdom.

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• "And the building of the wall of it was of
  jasper and the city was pure gold like unto
  clear glass.
• "And the foundations of the wall of the city were
  garnished with all manner of precious stones. The
  first foundation was jasper the second,
  sapphire the third, a chalcedony the fourth, an
  emerald
• "The fifth, sardonyx the sixth, sardius the
  seventh, chrysolite the eighth, beryl the
  ninth, a topaz the tenth, a chrysoprasus the
  eleventh, a jacinth the twelfth, an amethyst.
• "And the twelve gates were twelve pearls every
  several gate was of one pearl and the street of
  the city was pure gold, as it were transparent
  glass.
• "And I saw no temple therein for the Lord God
  Almighty and the Lamb are the temple of it.
• "And the city had no need of the sun, neither of
  the moon, to shine in it for the glory of God
  did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof
• "And the nations of them which are saved shall
  walk in the light of it and the kings of the
  earth do bring their glory and honour into it.
• "And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by
  day for there shall be no night there.
• "And they shall bring the glory and honour of the
  nations into it.
• "And there shall in no wise enter into it any
  thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh
  abomination, or maketh a lie but they which are
  written in the Lamb's book of life." 1
• 1 Rev 2110-27

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• Isaiah 45
• And the LORD will create upon every dwelling
  place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a
  cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a
  flaming fire by night for upon all the glory
  shall be a defence.

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• was an embodiment of architectural science after
  the pattern of eternal perfections, whose towers
  glittered with a radiance emanating from the
  sparkling of emeralds, rubies, diamonds, and
  other precious stones set in a canopy of gold and
  so elaborately and skillfully arranged as to shed
  forth a brilliancy which dazzled and enchanted
  the eye, excited admiration and developed a taste
  for the beautiful, beyond anything man had ever
  conceived.
• "Fountains of crystal water shot upward their
  transparent jets which in the brilliant sunshine,
  formed ten thousand rainbow tints at once
  delightful to the eye. Gardens, the perfections
  of whose arrangement confound all our present
  attempts at genius, were bedecked with flowers of
  varied hue to develop and refine the taste, and
  strengthen a love for these nature's chastest
  endowments. Schools and universities were
  erected, to which all had access in the latter
  Urims were placed, for the study of the past,
  present, and future, and for obtaining a
  knowledge of heavenly bodies, and of the
  construction of worlds and universes.
• Charles D. Evans
• 1893, Contributor Magazine, vol 15, pg 638-641

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• "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."
• Is 2423
• "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."
• 2 Nephi 2012

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ZIONA TEMPLE CITYA CITY OF TEMPLES
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The RESTORATION OF ALL THINGS

• "We believe in the literal gathering of Israel
  and in the restoration of the Ten Tribes that
  Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon the
  American continent that Christ will reign
  personally upon the earth and, that the earth
  will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal
  glory."

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• "The earth shall remove out of her place, in the
  wrath of the Lord of hosts, and in the day of his
  fierce anger. And it shall be as the chased roe,
  and as a sheep that no man taketh up." Also
  Isaiah 624 "Thou shalt no more be termed
  Forsaken neither shall thy land any more be
  termed Desolate but thou shalt be called
  Hephzibah, and thy land Beulah for the Lord
  delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be
  married.
• "In the first instance, we have the earth on a
  move like a chased roe and in the second place,
  we have it married. And from the whole, and
  various scriptures, we learn, that the continents
  and islands shall be united in one, as they were
  on the morn of creation, and the sea shall retire
  and assemble in its own place, where it was
  before and all these scenes shall take place
  during the mighty convulsion of nature, about the
  time of the coming of the Lord.
• "Having restored the earth to the same glorious
  state in which it first existedleveling the
  mountains, exalting the valleys, smoothing the
  rough places, making the deserts fruitful, and
  bringing all the continents, and islands
  together, causing the curse to be taken off, that
  noxious weeds and thorns, and thistles shall no
  longer be produced the next thing is to regulate
  and restore the brute creation to their former
  state of peace and glory, causing enmity to cease
  from off the earth. But this will never be done
  until there is a general destruction poured out
  upon man, which will entirely cleanse the earth,
  and sweep all wickedness from its face
• Parley P. Pratt, A Voice of Warning, p.114-121

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• The stars which will fall to the earth, are
  fragments, which have been broken off from the
  earth from time to time, in the mighty
  convulsions of nature. Some in the days of Enoch,
  some perhaps in the days of Peleg, some with the
  ten tribes, and some at the crucifixion of the
  Messiah. These all must be restored again at the
  "times of restitution of all things." This will
  restore the ten tribes of Israel and also bring
  again Zion, even Enoch's city. It will bring back
  the tree of life which is in the midst of the
  paradise of God that you and I may partake of
  it. When these fragments, (some of which are
  vastly larger than the present earth) are brought
  back and joined to this earth, it will cause a
  convulsion of all nature the graves of the
  Saints will be opened, and rise from the dead
  while the mountains will flow down, the vallies
  rise, the sea retire to its own place, the
  islands and continents will be removed, and earth
  be rolled together as a scroll. The earth will be
  many times larger than it is now. "If I have told
  you of earthly things and ye believe not what
  would you think if you were to be told of
  heavenly things?"
• Parley P. Pratt, Millennial star, Vol. 1258,
  February 1841

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TEN TRIBES RETURN

• TEN TRIBES RETURN TO THE EARTH AND MAKE THEIR
  WAY TO NEW JERUSALEM
• From the North Countries down the Pacific
  Ocean (Great Deep) from California, across
  Nevada, to Utah (Ephraim), Rocky Mountains, then
  to Zion (Ephraim).
• D C 13326-33

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WHEN???

• No one knows for sure but the sequence of events
  appears to be
• (Rogers Guesses)

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Deflation moving to Inflation
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Detailed Sequence of Events, part 1
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Phase 4
Phase 3
Phase 5
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Attack/invasion Of North America, Europe, others
flee
Refuges
Utah- (near) ZION
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3 great earthquakes

• Increasing in Strength each time
• Each followed by Water devastation/Floods
• Great Utah Earthquake
• Great U.S. Earthquake(s)
• Great Global Earthquake

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GREAT TOPOLOGICAL Changes to North America
1- Utah/Idaho/Nevada 2- West Coast
Arizona 3-East SouthEast Coast 4- Mississippi
Missouri River system (midwest) 5- Colorado
GRI
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• "Joseph also said that when the city of Enoch
  fled and was translated, it was where the Gulf of
  Mexico now is it left that gulf a body of
  water."
• Wilford Woodruff, Journal of Wilford Woodruff,
  Dec 16, 1877, p. 172, Pioneer Press

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CITY OF ZION, DURING MILLENNIUM
1500 miles
CITY OF ENOCH