Zion!
Scriptures and doctrinal principles
- What is Zion?
- Doctrine and Covenants 42:30
- Doctrine and Covenants 97:19-21
- Doctrine and Covenants 105:15
- Moses 7:18
- The Zion of Enoch’s day
- Doctrine and Covenants 38:4
- Moses 7:18
- Commands to build Zion
- Doctrine and Covenants 6:6
- Doctrine and Covenants 11:6
- Doctrine and Covenants 12:6
- Doctrine and Covenants 45:64-75
- Doctrine and Covenants 48
- Doctrine and Covenants 57
- Doctrine and Covenants 58:6-7
- Doctrine and Covenants 63:27-31
- Doctrine and Covenants 82:11-12
- Doctrine and Covenants 84:1-5
- Doctrine and Covenants 104:49-53
- The Law of Consecration
- Doctrine and Covenants 42 — the economic system of Zion
- Doctrine and Covenants 105:5 — the laws of the Celestial Kingdom
- Doctrine and Covenants 104:14 and 104:55-56 — The earth is the Lord’s
- The Law:
- Overcome selfishness and greed
- Purge our hearts of unrighteousness
- Overcome the tendency to complain, criticize, and gossip
- Keep our eyes single to God and His glory
- Be endowed with power from on high
- Sacrifice all for the Kingdom
- Become perfectly holy
- The United Order (the Order of Enoch)
- The United Order is the administrative order for applying the Law of Consecration
- Doctrine and Covenants 51 and Doctrine and Covenants 85
- The earth is the Lord’s
- We must enter the Order voluntarily
- We must consecrate ALL to the Lord (Doctrine and Covenants 42:30-34, Doctrine and Covenants 70:1-8)
- We become stewards of our own property (Doctrine and Covenants 42:32 and 104:14, 55-56)
- This is private ownership, not communism or communalism.
- Stewardship is regulated by needs, and to some degree, wants (Doctrine and Covenants 51:3 and 82:17)
- Needs and wants are determined by the mutual consent of both parties (DHC 1:364-365)
- All surplus goods and properties become the stewardship of the bishop (Doctrine and Covenants 42:33 and 70:1-8 and Section 78)
- Individual responsibilities are retained by those granted individual stewardships; this is not a socialistic equality (D&C 51:31)
- This order frees the saints from dependence on others (DHC 1:268-269)
- Why did Zion fail in the 1830 to 1834 effort?
- Doctrine and Covenants 100:13, 101:1-21, 101:43-101, 103:1-28, 104, 105:9-34, 136:31
- We are living by ‘lesser laws’ in our time
- The Law of Tithing (Doctrine and Covenants 119:4)
- The Law of the Fast (JOD 12:115-116)
- The Church Welfare Program (Matthew 17:3, 2 Chronicles 21:12)
- The role of the Bishop
- Doctrine and Covenants 41:4, 42:70-73, Section 72
- Providing for the Poor
- Doctrine and Covenants 42:30-36, 44:6, 56:16-20, Section 83
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