The Pillars of Zion Series - Zion-Our Origin and Our Destiny (Book 1)

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