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by Lds Book Club (Author), Larry Barkdull (Author)
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
Author Biography
Larry Barkdull is a longtime publisher and writer of books, music, art, and magazines. For nine years, he owned Sonos Music Resources and published the Tabernacle Choir Performance Library. He was also the owner and publisher of Keepsake Books. Over the past thirty years, he's published some six hundred products for numerous authors, composers, and artists. He's founded two nonprofit organizations: The Latter-day Foundation for the Arts, Education and Humanity (to promote LDS arts), and Gospel Ideals International (to promote the gospel of Jesus Christ on the Internet). His books have sold in excess of 300,000 copies, and they have been translated into Japanese, Korean, Italian, and Hebrew. He is the recipient of the American Family Literary Award; the Benjamin Franklin Book Award; and Foreword Magazine's GOLD Book of the Year Award for best fiction. His most recent books are Priesthood Power-Blessing the Sick and the Afflicted, Rescuing Wayward Children, and The Shepherd Song. He and his wife, Elizabeth, have ten children and a growing number of grandchildren. They live in Orem, Utah. Read more of his writings at Meridian Magazine.com.
