ZION
The word Zion has various meanings in the scriptures. The most general definition of the word is “the pure in heart” (Doctrine and Covenants 97:21). Zion is often used in this way to refer to the Lord’s people or to the Church and its stakes (see Doctrine and Covenants 82:14). It has also been used to refer to specific geographical locations.
The word Zion appears repeatedly in all the books of scripture of the Church. In latter-day revelation, Zion is defined as “the pure in heart” (Doctrine and Covenants 97:21).
Book of Mormon, 2 Nephi 10:13, 16
13 And he that
fighteth against Zion shall
perish, saith God.
16 Wherefore, he that
fighteth against
Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female,
shall perish; for
they are they who are the
harlot of all the earth; for
they who are
not for me are
against me, saith our God.
Book of Mormon, 3 Nephi 16:10
10 And thus commandeth the Father that I should say unto you: At that day when the Gentiles shall
sin against my gospel, and shall reject the fulness of my gospel, and shall be
lifted up in the pride of their hearts above all nations, and above all the people of the whole earth, and shall be filled with all manner of lyings, and of deceits, and of mischiefs, and all manner of hypocrisy, and
murders, and
priestcrafts, and whoredoms, and of secret abominations; and if they shall do all those things, and shall
reject the fulness of my gospel, behold, saith the Father, I will bring the fulness of my gospel from among them.
Many who read in the scriptures of people “fighting against Zion” may assume they refer only to non-members of the church. A search, however, may disabuse our minds on that subject. First, “He that fighteth against Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall perish; for they are they who are the harlot of all the earth” (2 Nephi 10:16). Those who fight against Zion, in other words—whatever name they go by—belong to the great and abominable church of the devil, which “fight against the Lamb of God” (1 Nephi 14:13).
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