Book of Mormon Zion

I believe the Book of Mormon provides a transitional step to the establishment of Zion.  I don’t have to look at the Doctrine and Covenants to follow this  teaching in the Book of Mormon.  Here’s what I mean.  Alma’s church was built on a supply/demand economy (just like ours without all the regulation).  Those who had desires to their God and fellowman and wanted to walk uprightly before God could voluntarily participate.  Alma teaches that it is a fundamental tenet of Christ’s gospel to have temporal equality.  The Book of Mormon doesn’t make it optional.  We make it optional because of our false traditions and cultural bias. 

My point is, if the saints were taught in a clear way the importance of temporal equality (that would bring the blessing from heaven, to partake of the Heavenly Gift, etc.), that the rich give more - that it is walking in the pride of one’s heart to walk by the poor and notice them not, to have an abundance far exceeding what others have (to wear our ‘fine twine apparel’ with abandon) – that we could establish an order comparable to the order lived in most Book of Mormon periods.  If we did this we, as a people, would be prepared for Zion.

And we can do it right now in Babylon.  We just haven’t been taught.  Maybe being taught would bring about mass apostasy.  Maybe the Spirit hasn’t rested on the Apostles to make the transition to this Book of Mormon teaching.  Maybe we are steeped in so much false Calvinism that we have blind spots. 

I pray for the church that it might increase in righteousness and desire Zion.