New Jerusalem
Summary
The Book of Mormon indicated that, in preparation for Jesus Christ’s second coming, a city should be built on the American continent and called the New Jerusalem. The Book of Mormon further explained that the remnant of the seed of Joseph (understood to be the American Indians in JS’s day) would gather to this city, where Christ would return in connection with his second coming. Several of JS’s early revelations stated that the New Jerusalem, sometimes referred to as Zion or Mount Zion, would also serve as a gathering place for the Saints and that the location for it would be revealed to them. Other revelations prophesied that Enoch and his people would join the New Jerusalem at the time of Christ’s second coming. The New Jerusalem was described as “a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the most high God.” The term New Jerusalem was used synonymously with Zion by the early 1830s. While uncertainty initially existed regarding the location of the New Jerusalem, a July 1831 revelation designated Missouri as the place to build the city of Zion and identified Independence as the center place of Zion. See also “.”
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- History, 1838–1856, volume A-1 [23 December 1805–30 August 1834]
- Letter from Thomas Burdick, 28 August 1840
- Affidavit, 8 September 1838
- Appendix 1: Revelation, 3 November 1831, Sidney Rigdon Copy [D&C 133]
- Appendix: Discourses, 22 June and 23 or 24 June 1844, as Recorded in Fullmer, Letterbook
- Covenant of Oliver Cowdery and Others, 17 October 1830
- Doctrine and Covenants, 1844
- Letter from John P. Greene, 18 March 1843
- Letter to Editor, 22–circa 27 April 1843
- Letter to Edward Partridge, 2 May 1833
- Letter to Edward Partridge, 5 December 1833
- Letter to William W. Phelps, 31 July 1832
- Letter to the Elders of the Church, 16 November 1835
- Letterbook 1
- Minutes, 12 March 1835
- Minutes, 7 April 1843, as Reported by William Clayton
- Plan of the House of the Lord, between 1 and 25 June 1833
- Revelation Book 1
- Revelation, September 1830–B [D&C 28]
- Revelation, 1 August 1831 [D&C 58]
- Revelation, 10 March 1831 [D&C 48]
- Revelation, 20 July 1831 [D&C 57]
- Revelation, 20 May 1831 [D&C 51]
- Revelation, 22 June 1834 [D&C 105]
- Revelation, 22–23 September 1832 [D&C 84]
- Revelation, 26 April 1832 [D&C 82]
- Revelation, 3 November 1831 [D&C 133]
- Revelation, 3 November 1831, as Published in Times and Seasons [D&C 133]
- Revelation, 30 December 1830 [D&C 37]
- Revelation, 6 June 1831 [D&C 52]
- Revelation, 9 February 1831 [D&C 42:1–72]
- Revelation, 9 February 1831, Extract, as Published in Howe, Mormonism Unvailed [D&C 42:29–39]
- Revelation, 9 February 1831, as Recorded in Coltrin, Diary [D&C 42:11–69]
- Revelation, 9 February 1831, as Recorded in Gilbert, Notebook [D&C 42:1–72]
- Revelation, September 1830–A [D&C 29]
- Revelation, circa 7 March 1831 [D&C 45]
- Revelations printed in Evening and Morning Star, January 1835–June 1836
- Revelations printed in The Evening and the Morning Star, June 1832–June 1833
- Vision, 16 February 1832 [D&C 76]