Book 1:
Zion—Our Origin and Our Destiny

This book contains a comparison between the Zion account in 3rd Nephi and latter-day Zion, a look back at ancient Zion societies, how we were prepared to become Zion people, and a vivid description of Babylon.

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Introduction

Section 1—Zion—What Do We Know of It?

• Parallels between the 3rd Nephi Saints and the Latter-day Saints
• An important key to establishing Zion
• Enoch’s dispensation is a pattern
• The Three Pillars of Zion

Section 2—Overview of Zion Peoples

• Zion is our ideal
• The celestial order
• Zion and Babylon—exact opposites
• Becoming a Zion person
• Fall from Zion
• The way back to Zion revealed
• Zion—A new way of life
• Surety of a better world
• Adam’s Zion
• Enos’s Zion
• Enoch’s Zion
• Methuselah and Noah’s Zion
• Melchizedek’s Zion
• Abraham’s Zion
• Moses’ attempt at Zion
• Alma the Elder’s Zion
• King Benjamin’s Zion
• Alma the Younger’s Zion
• The Apostles’ Zion
• The Nephites’ Zion
• Joseph Smith’s Zion
• Latter-day Zion
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 3—We Were Prepared to Become Latter-day Zion People

• Divine appointment
• Special spirits of the royal generation
• Perspective on the cosmic war
• Preparation in the “First Place”
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 4—Babylon the Great

• Anti-Christ philosophy
• Cain
• Nimrod
• Sodom and Gomorrah
• Descriptions of Babylon
• Babylon as a religion
• The “great church” of the devil
• Babylon as a false temple
• Nephi’s description of Babylon
  • Contention
  • Man’s wisdom
  • Denying the power of God
  • Eat, drink, and be merry
  • Pride
  • Secrecy
  • Reviling against anything good
  • Carnal security
  • Flattery
  • Taking and giving offense
• Spiritual Babylon
• Competition
• Hypocrites
• False philosophies
• Popularity
• Latter-day Babylon—Prophetic description of our time
• Babylon today compared to the days of Noah
• Paul’s prophecy
• Inverting the truth
• Moroni’s prophecy
• The Fall of Babylon
• Samuel the Lamanite’s parallel denunciation of Babylon
• Go ye out from Babylon
• Summary and Conclusion
• Postlude