💚 FREEDOM & LOVE — THE TWO PILLARS OF ZION
💚 FREEDOM & LOVE — THE TWO PILLARS OF ZION
🕊️ “Where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.” — 2 Corinthians 3:17
Every generation builds its own myths about Zion — gleaming cities, golden streets, a temple so radiant it blinds the nations.
But the real Zion isn’t built out of marble.
It’s built out of hearts that choose freedom and love over fear and control.
That’s it. That’s the whole blueprint.
Freedom from the chains of men, and love that binds us to Christ and one another.
⚖️ Four Kinds of Societies
The brother in the video mapped it perfectly. All governments fall somewhere on this chart:
| Color | Freedom | Love | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
| ⚫ Black Zone | Low | Low | Control, corruption, and despair. |
| 🔴 Red Zone | High | Low | Anarchy — every man for himself. |
| 🔵 Blue Zone | Low | High | Benevolent tyranny — love without liberty. |
| 💚 Green Zone | High | High | Zion — voluntary cooperation and charity. |
Most of our world sits in the black zone, ruled by money, power, and fear.
Even our religions sometimes drift blue — preaching love but chaining freedom.
And anarchy (red) just burns out.
Only the green remains — a people who live free because they love.
💚 The Green Zone — True Zion
When the Book of Mormon says the people of Fourth Nephi “had all things in common” and “there could not be a happier people,” that was the green zone.
No rulers, no taxes, no compulsion.
Just pure brotherhood.
“And there were no contentions or disputations among them,
and every man did deal justly one with another.” — 4 Nephi 1:2
The Nemenhah Records echo this same principle:
“For Zion is not built of stone, but of those who make free the will of another by love.” (Book of Mohmeht Ahkehkt 2:11–12)
Zion is freedom married to love.
Take one away, and you’ve got slavery or chaos.
Keep both, and heaven starts to show through the cracks of this world.
🔥 Why Zions Fall
Every true Zion on record — Nephi’s, Enoch’s, the early Nemenhah, the saints at Fourth Nephi — eventually fell to pride.
They began to “measure more than share.”
They wanted control instead of charity.
Power always fears free souls.
That’s why governments — and even churches — have erased the memory of such societies.
Because a people who live by freedom and love cannot be ruled.
🌅 The New Jerusalem Will Not Be Voted In
The Bible calls it the New Jerusalem.
The Book of Mormon calls it Zion upon this land.
The Nemenhah call it Tsiahn, the Refuge of Peace.
But it won’t rise from a capital or a conference.
It will rise from kitchens, gardens, and small fellowships —
from men and women who choose to love freely and to free lovingly.
“For I will bring again Zion out of captivity, and they shall build her again;
not by force of men, but by the quickening of hearts.” (Tsihohnayah Ahkehkthihm 14:73–76)
That’s how the New Jerusalem will appear: not as a monument, but as a movement.
A living, breathing people who live what Jesus taught:
No compulsion. No oppression. Only love and freedom.
🕊️ The Two Gifts of Christ
We often talk about resurrection as His great gift — and it is.
But the Lord also gave us two others that make resurrection worth having:
Freedom and Love.
Without freedom, love is impossible.
Without love, freedom becomes cruelty.
Together they form the heartbeat of Zion.
“And now behold, all these gifts cometh of Christ,
and they are given to benefit them that love Him and keep all His commandments.” — Moroni 10:8
🌍 Our Call
Maybe we can’t fix the governments of men.
But we can live Zion now — in our homes, our marriages, our neighborhoods.
Every time we set someone free by loving them instead of controlling them,
we lay another stone in the New Jerusalem.
“For behold, I say unto you, Zion must increase in beauty and in holiness.” — D&C 82:14
Let’s start building — heart by heart, porch by porch.
The Lord will recognize His city when He sees it glowing green.
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