🔥 WHEN BABYLON TREMBLES — AND ZION BEGINS TO SING AGAIN (A conversation from the heart about history, deception, and returning to the Voice)
🔥 WHEN BABYLON TREMBLES — AND ZION BEGINS TO SING AGAIN
(A conversation from the heart about history, deception, and returning to the Voice)
🌄 The Restorer and the Rift
You know, my friends, I sit here some mornings and think about the great men and women the Lord has used — Joseph and Emma Smith right there at the top of the list.
Joseph was the Restorer. He brought back the plain and precious truths — the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine of Christ, the covenants, and the invitation to see the Savior face to face.
But somewhere along the way, things changed.
The apostles went out — east to Maine, across the sea to England — and some got caught up in spirits that weren’t of God. Lonely, flattered by new ideas, whisperings that “maybe plural marriage is the higher law.”
That’s how deception works: it feels spiritual before it steals the light.
When they came home, they carried a new gospel — not the one Joseph had taught, but a twisted imitation, claiming divine sanction for polygamy.
And soon those same men helped bring about Joseph’s death, believing they were serving God while fulfilling the will of another master.
⚖️ Rewriting the Story
After the martyrdom, the westward company took the reins. History got rewritten.
Section 101 — the one condemning plural marriage — quietly disappeared.
Section 132 — the one “authorizing” it — suddenly appeared.
And with those edits came a whole new religion, dressed in familiar clothes.
They built a mighty kingdom in the desert — industrious, organized, determined — and the Lord, in His mercy, still used them.
“The Lord did use them for the labor of His hand, for they were diligent and organized, though they knew not all His ways.” (Nemenhah Records)
Through their work, the Book of Mormon circled the earth. Through their industry, the name of Christ reached nations.
Even corrupted institutions can be instruments in divine hands — for a season.
🕊️ The Beauty Still Shines
The other night I listened to the Tabernacle Choir, and the children’s voices sang “Gethsemane.” I could see angels among them.
You see, God hasn’t abandoned anyone — not the saints, not the leaders, not the wanderers, not the skeptics.
His Spirit still touches hearts wherever truth is sung and kindness is shown.
But judgment always begins at the Lord’s own house.
And when He says “Babylon shall fall,” that doesn’t just mean the world — it means every system, religious or secular, that has replaced His living voice with human hierarchy.
🌊 The Shaking and the Stillness
The Psalms tell it perfectly:
“God is our refuge and strength,
a very present help in trouble.
Therefore will we not fear,
though the earth be removed,
and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
though the waters thereof roar and be troubled,
though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof.”
— Psalm 46:1-3
That’s the world we’re living in right now — earthquakes, seas roaring, nations in turmoil — and yet the Word still says, “Be still, and know that I am God.”
Even when Babylon trembles, there will be peace in the Lord.
That’s His promise. That’s Zion’s song.
🌎 The Coming Reckoning
Prophets ancient and modern warned that the shaking would start close to home.
Maybe a meteor. Maybe war. Maybe a collapse of everything we’ve leaned on.
But the purpose is always the same: to separate those who follow the robe from those who follow the Voice.
When the proud fall, the humble will hear Him again.
When the temples of men crumble, Zion will rise — not made of marble, but of hearts made pure.
⚙️ The Tools of Zion
We don’t have to live like the Amish, nor flee into the wilderness to find holiness.
The Lord gave us tools — even these devices in our hands — to build, to gather, to testify.
It’s not the technology that’s Babylon; it’s the intent behind it.
This little iPhone I’m talking into can spread light or darkness. It can waste time or wake souls.
The key is whether the Spirit governs the system, or the system governs the soul.
And yes — I sometimes smile thinking that in the higher estate we’ll have something like that “crystal ball” promised in scripture — only perfected by heavenly light.
Maybe the best iPhone ever made, powered by pure revelation!
🔥 The Call of the Peacemaker
The Nemenhah Records say it plain:
“The Peacemaker calleth unto all who will hear His Voice,
that they might be gathered out of the confusion of Babel.
And those who hear shall not gather to a place,
but to His Spirit.”
That’s Zion — not an address, but a condition of the heart.
So my plea is simple: Return to the Lord.
Not to systems, not to titles, not to programs — but to His Voice.
He’ll tell you where to go, what to do, how to prepare, and who to help.
Even as the storms gather, His Spirit will guide every step.
🌅 My Morning Reflection
When I rise, I turn on those harmonic psalms again — those songs of David, that shepherd-king who fell and found his way back.
I close my eyes, breathe, and let the peace of the Savior fill me.
And every morning, the message comes the same:
“I still love you.
I have not forgotten My people.
Hear Me, and build My Zion.”
That’s all He ever wanted — not perfection, just hearts that will listen.
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