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New Jerusalem: Law and Word of the Lord
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And he shall witness against all iniquity as saith Malachi and shall sorely chastize those who are gone astray, but still he saith I am God I change not therefore ye sons of Jacob are not consumed return thou unto me and I will return unto thee. The Lord will begin by revealing the House of Israel among the gentiles and those who have gone from the ordinances of God shall return unto the keeping of all the law and observing his judgement and statutes to do them Then shall the Law of the Lord go forth from Zion and the word of the Lord to the priests and through them from Jerusalem. Discourse, circa 21 March 1841, as Reported by Martha Jane Knowlton Coray, 28, josephsmithpapers.org.
Joseph Smith
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Jerusalem shall become a righteous city when Israel is gathered and redeemed. Zion also shall be cleansed of all iniquity, and in that day, when Christ shall rule, the word of the Lord to Isaiah shall be fulfilled, "for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
President Joseph Fielding Smith
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The New Jerusalem
President Joseph Fielding Smith
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Though there may be many Jerusalems—each a Zion in its own right, because its inhabitants dwell in righteousness—yet there are two in particular that concern us because of the part they are destined to play in the Second Coming of the one who shall yet reign in the Jerusalem of His choice. These two are the Jerusalem now standing in Palestine and the New Jerusalem yet to be built in Jackson County, Missouri. Both will house a holy temple, and each will serve as a world capital during the Millennium. Biblical prophecies relative to the Second Coming make frequent reference to Zion and Jerusalem as two cities, not one. As a prelude to specifying how both Jerusalems, the Old and the New, fit into our Lord’s return, we should ponder and interpret at least a few of the relevant passages from the Old Testament. Isaiah—the great prophet of the restoration, the one who seems to have known as much about our day as we ourselves know—Isaiah cried out: “Oh that thou wouldest rend the heavens, that thou wouldest come down, that the mountains might flow down at thy presence.” Then he speaks other words about that glorious day which will usher in the era of righteousness to follow. In them he inserts one of the reasons why the Lord cannot yet come. “Thy holy cities are a wilderness,” he says, “Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house [the temple], where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.” (Isa. 64:112.) That is, two holy cities must be prepared to receive the Lord when he comes. As long as Zion is a wilderness, where a city is yet to be built, and as long as Jerusalem, having been destroyed, is yet a desolation, the Lord will not rend the heavens and cause the mountains to flow down at his glorious advent. Both Isaiah and Micah prophesied of the building of temples in the last days, of the gathering of Israel to those holy houses, and of the gospel teaching they would there receive. “For out of Zion shall go forth the law,” they both said, “and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem’”—thus naming the two great world capitals and indicating the authoritative decrees to go forth from each. Isaiah put his words in a millennial context by saying that “he [Christ] shall [then] judge among the nations, and shall rebuke many people: and they shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their Spears into pruninghooks: nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.” Micah says all this and more. He speaks in addition of the millennial gathering of Israel and says, “The Lord shall reign over them in mount Zion from henceforth, even for ever.” (Isa. 2:1-5; Micah 4:1-7.)
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
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The Millennium (2)
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
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