This Order Does Not Foster Brotherhood

I read in the Doctrine and Covenants about different orders related to the gospel and kingdom on this earth.  The order in which we live today as a church is not a Zion order.  We call ourselves stakes of Zion which indicates something or our direction or desires.  But, watch what we do, not what we say, and I see something different - a different order than Zion.  The Order of Enoch is an all in common order where temporal equality exists among the participants.  The participants, over time, have become enlightened, partaking of the heavenly gift, understanding the true nature of the meaning of charity.  They understand that one man shouldn't be above above another.  And, that this is sin.  They understand that the love of money is root of all evil and this make complete sense to them.  Once in the order and seeing the pouring out of blessings their testimony of the order grows into knowledge. They can see the incorrectness of the old order clearly now.  How faithless the old order was.  How selfish the old order was.  In the new order it is self evident that all things are gifts from God.  In contrast to the old order where darkness prevailed, temporal talents to acquire wealth are not gifts but some strange indicator of self worth and how blessed one is.  Mormon explains it this way, "why to you love your money more than you love the needy and the poor?" and "why do you walk by the poor and needy and notice them not?".  Mormon is viewing the church order in which we live from the vantage point of all in common order in which lived.  He seems to be shocked by what he sees.

The order of the church in which we live today doesn't foster brotherhood.  Friends and family foster brotherhood in our society today.  Lacking temporal unity causes everyone to fend for themselves.  The stress of doing this results in all sorts of unbrotherly conduct.  Seeing other with their wealth untold take is toll on the pychies of everyone in the church.  We all learn quickly that in this order it is a matter of individual righteousness and nothing about group righteousness.

I believe the Book of Mormon is teaching us what the higher order is like and what it takes to live it.  Anyone with eyes and ears wide open easily sees the contrast between how we live today and how the righteous in the Book of Mormon lived. This way of writing is deliberate among the Nephite prophets.  They see our day and wrote a book that would help us (the Latter-day Saints) transition from Babylon to Zion.