The Pillars of Zion Series - Zion-Our Origin and Our Destiny (Book 1)

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. This volume explores the following: • Introduction - Parallels between the 3 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 1: Zion - What Do We Know of It? - Zion Is Our Ideal - The Celestial Order - Zion and Babylon - Exact Opposites - Becoming a Zion Person • Section 2: Overview of Zion Peoples - 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 Temple - Nephi's Description of Babylon - 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 - And Much More