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Waking Up Zion — The Book

Waking Up Zion --- The Book

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INTRODUCTION Not a Faith Crisis — A Truth Awakening This isn’t a book about walking away. It’s a book about walking deeper. Deeper into Jesus. Deeper into His voice, His light, and His truth. For years, I loved my faith. I still do. The Church gave me structure. It gave me good people. It taught me to honor prophets and scriptures. To seek the Holy Ghost. To follow Christ. But somewhere along the way, I started asking quiet questions— Not to tear down, but to understand more. Where is the power of the Book of Mormon? Where is the fire of the early Saints? Where is the Jesus who speaks face to face? This book isn’t here to fight the Church. It’s here to reach the hearts of those in it — Especially those who feel something is missing, but don’t yet have words for it. I believe God is still working. But I also believe He is calling many of His children out of comfort and into courage. Out of tradition and into truth. Out of a system and into a personal walk with His Son. If you love the C...
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🪶 SAME NAME… DIFFERENT GATHERING --- What a “Solemn Assembly” Used to Be — and What It Is Now

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  🪶 SAME NAME… DIFFERENT GATHERING What a “Solemn Assembly” Used to Be — and What It Is Now 🌅 I was listening the other day… And I heard the phrase again: 👉   “Solemn Assembly” And something in me paused. Not in anger. Not in rebellion. Just… quiet curiosity. Because I’ve read that phrase before. 📖 WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM? A solemn assembly isn’t new. It didn’t start in Salt Lake. It didn’t start in 1830. It goes all the way back to scripture. 📜 BIBLE — WHAT IT WAS 4 👉   Joel 2 👉   2 Chronicles 7 A solemn assembly meant one thing: 👉   Come before God… broken, humble, and ready Fasting Weeping Repenting Crying out to God Not listening. Not observing. 👉   Crying out. And what happened? Fire came down from heaven The presence of God filled the temple 📘 BOOK OF MORMON — WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE 4 👉   Mosiah 2–5 👉   3 Nephi 11 When people gathered… 👉 It wasn’t about leadership. It was about: Falling to the earth Crying out for mercy Receiving...
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Video 58 --- ❤️ Zion Begins in the Heart

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  ❤️ Zion Begins in the Heart 🪶   Why every attempt to build Zion fails — until something changes inside us first. 🌱 We Often Start in the Wrong Place When people talk about Zion, we usually think outward. A place. A gathering. A people coming together. A society finally ordered the right way. But scripture tells a quieter story. Every attempt to build Zion that begins   outside   first eventually fails — even when the intentions are sincere, and even when the teachings are true. Zion does not begin with geography. Zion begins in the heart. 📖 Scripture Is Consistent About This Again and again, scripture describes Zion using the same language: one heart one mind no poor among them all things common dwelling in righteousness These are not structural descriptions. They are   heart conditions . You cannot legislate them. You cannot organize them into existence. You cannot enforce them without destroying them. They either grow — or they don’t. 💔 Why Zion Always B...
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🌍 A PATTERN WORTH NOTICING

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  🌍 A PATTERN WORTH NOTICING (A quiet observation before we begin) Lately, I’ve been noticing something that keeps repeating across history. Different cultures. Different records. Different times. Yet the same result appears again and again. When people live a certain way,   peace lasts . This isn’t theory. It has already happened. 🌾 HOW PEACE ACTUALLY COMES And Why It Has Appeared More Than Once After sharing the story of Japan’s long peace, a question naturally follows: Was that a one-time miracle? Or part of something larger? When we widen the view, the answer becomes clear. The same pattern that brought peace to Japan appears elsewhere — written into sacred records, preserved by different peoples, across centuries. 🌿 THE FIRST GREAT EXAMPLE — ENOCH Long before recorded empires, there was a man named   Enoch . The record says his people: Were of   one heart and one mind Had   no poor among them Walked with God, not institutions This wasn’t enforced equalit...
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Video 57 --- 🏗️ So What Do We Do Now? This is just the opposite of an April Fool's Joke

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  🏗️ So What Do We Do Now? 🪶   A simple Zion question — asked quietly, and answered plainly in scripture. 🌅 Seeing Clearly Creates Responsibility Once we wake up, something changes. We can’t unknow what we’ve seen. We can’t pretend the questions don’t matter. And we can’t live the same way we did before. But awakening alone doesn’t tell us   how to live . So a deeper question begins to rise — not in anger, but in sincerity: What does Christ want us to do now? 📖 Scripture Is Surprisingly Clear When I turn to scripture — especially the Book of Mormon — I’m struck by how   practical   it is. It doesn’t say: wait for perfect conditions build the right institution first solve every problem before acting Instead, it keeps returning to a way of life: ➡️ Repent daily ➡️ Be baptized into Christ ➡️ Receive and follow the Spirit ➡️ Care for the poor and the weak ➡️ Live consecrated lives ➡️ Stop seeking power over one another ➡️ Become one Zion, in scripture, is not an...
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🌿 The New and Everlasting Covenant — A Quiet Remembering

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4 🌿 The New and Everlasting Covenant — A Quiet Remembering Hello friends. It’s just the old man again… sitting still long enough to listen. For a long time, I thought the   New and Everlasting Covenant   was something   managed   — defined by forms, protected by systems, administered by permission. But the longer I sit with Jesus, the more I wonder if the covenant was never meant to be   managed   at all. What if it was meant to be   lived ? 🕊️ Before There Was a World Across the true records, there is a gentle agreement. Light comes   before   the sun. The Word comes   before   matter. Relationship comes   before   structure. In the Nemenhah Records, the New and Everlasting Covenant is spoken of as existing   before the foundations of this earth   — received in light, not flesh; entered by consent, not command. This harmonizes quietly with the   Bible , where the covenant is written on hearts, not stone. ...
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