✨ ✨ “Your Churches, Yea, Even Every One”
✨ Those Who Walk With Jesus — ✨
“Your Churches, Yea, Even Every One”
📝 Their Message (Summary)
As General Conference rolls around again, the same hollow phrases echo: “Hasten the work.” “The Second Coming is near.” “Be prepared.” And yet, the details—the how—are left unsaid.
The Gospel’s purpose is clear: to raise a people who can endure His presence. That is Zion. That is the promise of the Endowment. And yet, as Joseph lamented, it was “like splitting hemlock knots with a cornbread wedge” to get this generation to understand.
Moroni warned us directly:
“Your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted because of the pride of your hearts.” (Mormon 8:36)
“O ye pollutions, ye hypocrites, ye teachers…why have ye polluted the holy church of God?” (Mormon 8:38)
It makes little sense to think Moroni meant anyone other than those who believe the Book of Mormon is scripture. His prophecy wasn’t aimed at Catholics or Lutherans, but at us—the latter-day Gentiles who have filled the Lord’s church with iniquity.
Joseph Smith said plainly: “We have thieves among us, adulterers, liars, hypocrites…The Church must be cleansed.”(TPJS p. 217).
Orson Pratt echoed it: Zion cannot be slowly, generationally built. It has always come suddenly, through truth, repentance, and power—when a people are prepared to receive the Lord Himself.
Enoch did not lay a foundation for centuries later.
Neither did Melchizedek.
Zion was established when they dwelt with Christ.
Even the Nephites, who saw Christ face-to-face, whose children He blessed, who lived in harmony for centuries—even they fell away.
Are we greater than those at Bountiful?
Joseph wept over Nauvoo’s unfinished temple, knowing the “seals” he held would soon be lost with his death. And so they were. We have drifted farther from Zion since, not closer.
Until we repent of pride, hypocrisy, and priestcraft—and return to Christ with full purpose of heart—the condemnation of D&C 84 still hangs heavy: our minds remain darkened, our remembrance broken, Zion still withheld.
Because Zion is not a program, not a slogan, not a line item in Conference.
Christ Himself is Zion.
🔥 My Reflection
This post feels like a prophetic warning. Not to “them,” but to us. The very people who prize the Book of Mormon are the ones it condemns most directly.
The sobering truth: there has never been a Zion without Jesus personally present. Never. Not in Enoch’s day, not in Melchizedek’s, not at Bountiful. If even they fell, how much more cautious must we be?
And so the call is simple, but piercing: stop looking for Zion in a conference talk. Stop expecting Zion to come through committees, corporations, or programs. Zion begins when hearts are cleansed, when pride dies, when Christ dwells with His people again.
🕊️ The Invitation
Read Moroni’s words as if they were written for you personally.
Stop excusing away Joseph’s warnings—let them strike your heart.
Ask yourself: is Christ blurry in the background of your life, or at the center?
Begin to build Zion where it always begins—on your knees, with repentance, in His presence.
📖 Scriptures to Ponder
Mormon 8:36–38 — “Your churches, yea, even every one, have become polluted.”
3 Nephi 16:10–12 — The Gentile rejection of the fulness.
D&C 84:54–57 — The condemnation that remains.
John 17:3 — Eternal life is to know God and His Son.
🔗 Walking with Jesus — A Family’s Story
This is part of a series sharing the six-year testimony of a family walking daily with Jesus.
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