SCRIPTURES ABOUT POLITICS for those with eyes to see and ears to hear

Unexpectedly, back in September 2023 God told me that he WANTS the priesthood holders to put on the Strength of Zion and to break off the captivity from the neck now {i.e. not wait for something from the Church to awaken them into action}, See Isaiah 52:1-2.  He was rather adamant about it doing it, that it's an inner choice and then it's an action.   1 Peter 2:9, Exodus 19:6.

Take to the streets, highways, and byways, and internet corners!  Get yourself a bullhorn if you need one, get pamphlets-- both spiritual and political, and arm yourself with readiness, purpose and action!  Put on your prayers and your missionary spirit like you had at 19-20-21 years old.  Be like John the Baptist who preached for a path to be made straight for the Kingdom of God.

JST, Matthew 3 (churchofjesuschrist.org)  

Also, regular Matthew 3:

1 In those days came ^aJohn the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa,

2 And saying, ^aRepent ye: for the ^bkingdom of heaven ^cis at hand.

3 For this is he that was spoken of by the prophet ^aEsaias, saying, The ^bvoice of one crying in the wilderness, ^cPrepare ye the way of the Lord, make his ^dpaths straight.

John the Baptist, from the Church's scripture website for Matt. 3

Contrast that with:

Does this picture give you warm fuzzies?  Not me, because he does not look like a righteous man.

Is the Utah Governor more like a wicked King or a man of God?  Is the President of the USA and VP, like wicked Kings also?

Mosiah 29:

11 Therefore I will be your king the remainder of my days; nevertheless, let ^aus appoint ^bjudges, to judge this people according to our law; and we will newly arrange the affairs of this people, for we will appoint wise men to be judges, that will judge this people according to the commandments of God.

12 Now it is better that a man should be ^ajudged of God than of man, for the judgments of God are always just, but the judgments of man are not always just.

13 Therefore, ^aif it were possible that you could have ^bjust men to be your kings, who would establish the ^claws of God, and judge this people according to his commandments, yea, if ye could have men for your kings who would do even as my father ^dBenjamin did for this people—I say unto you, if this could always be the case then it would be expedient that ye should always have kings to rule over you.

14 And even I myself have labored with all the power and faculties which I have possessed, to teach you the commandments of God, and to establish peace throughout the land, that there should be no wars nor contentions, no stealing, nor plundering, nor murdering, nor any manner of iniquity;

15 And whosoever has committed iniquity, him have I ^apunished according to the crime which he has committed, according to the law which has been given to us by our fathers.

16 Now I say unto you, that because all men are not just it is not expedient that ye should have a ^aking or kings to rule over you.

17 For behold, how much ^ainiquity doth one ^bwicked king cause to be committed, yea, and what great destruction!

Wick:  Old English wēoce, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch wiek and German Wieche ‘wick yarn’.  

Wicked:  A twisted piece of fiber for the purpose of being lit into a flame.  A twisted human being or twisted concept (corrupt).

"Wickedness" in the Search function:

• The Lord is far from the wicked: but he heareth the prayer of the righteous, Prov. 15:29.

• When the wicked rule, the people mourn, Prov. 29:2 (D&C 98:9).

• Put away from among yourselves that wicked person, 1 Cor. 5:13.

• We wrestle against spiritual wickedness in high places, Eph. 6:12.

• Come ye out from the wicked, and touch not their unclean things, Alma 5:56–57 (D&C 38:42).

• This is the final state of the wicked, Alma 34:35 (Alma 40:13–14).

• Wickedness never was happiness, Alma 41:10.

• It is by the wicked that the wicked are punished, Morm. 4:5 (D&C 63:33).

• At that hour cometh an entire separation of the righteous and the wicked, D&C 63:54.

• Thus cometh the end of the wicked, JS—M 1:55. 

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• "Choose, Chose, Chosen" in Scripture Search function:

• because Nephites choose works of darkness, they must go down to hell, 2 Ne. 26:10 (Alma 40:13).

• choose judges by voice of people, Mosiah 29:25.

• if voice of people choose iniquity, judgments will come, Mosiah 29:27 (Alma 10:19).

• those foreordained were left to choose good or evil, Alma 13:3.

• having chosen good and exercised faith, priests were called with holy calling, Alma 13:3, 10.

• choose ye this day whom ye will serve, Alma 30:8 (Josh. 24:15).

Helaman 5:

2 For as their laws and their governments were established by the ^avoice of the people, and they who ^bchose evil were ^cmore numerous than they who chose good, therefore they were ^dripening for destruction, for the laws had become corrupted.

3 Yea, and this was not all; they were a ^astiffnecked people, insomuch that they could not be governed by the law nor justice, save it were to their destruction.

4 And it came to pass that Nephi had become weary because of their iniquity; and he yielded up the judgment-seat, and took it upon him to preach the word of God all the remainder of his days, and his brother Lehi also, all the remainder of his days;

17 And it came to pass that they did ^apreach with great ^bpower, insomuch that they did confound many of those ^cdissenters who had gone over from the Nephites, insomuch that they came forth and did confess their sins and were baptized unto repentance, and immediately returned to the Nephites to endeavor to repair unto them the wrongs which they had done.

18 And it came to pass that Nephi and Lehi did preach unto the Lamanites with such great power and authority, for they had power and authority given unto them that they might ^aspeak, and they also had what they should speak given unto them—

19 Therefore they did speak unto the great astonishment of the Lamanites, to the convincing them, insomuch that there were eight thousand of the Lamanites who were in the land of Zarahemla and round about ^abaptized unto repentance, and were convinced of the ^bwickedness of the ^ctraditions of their fathers.

A New Political Party to Set Things in Order for God

 This morning I woke up with the idea:  A new Party.

ARE YOU GETTING TIRED OF THE DONKEY WHICH MAKES A LYING-"ASS-DROPPING" OUT OF EVERYTHING, AND THE ELEPHANT, WHICH IS SLOW TO REALLY CLEAN UP THE SWAMP, INCLUDING THOSE IN THEIR OWN RHINO RANKS?

HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT PUTTING GOD OR JESUS CHRIST IN THE WRITE-IN SECTION ON YOUR PRESIDENTIAL BALLOT, BUT THEN REMEMBERED THAT SIGNING THAT WRITE-IN WOULD HAVE NO 'PRACTICAL' VALUE IN TERMS OF A CANDIDATE?  {If we had righteous candidates who represent God then it WOULD be more practical.}  Are you getting to the point of realizing that our current politics is a sinking ship?

ARE YOU SAD ABOUT THE MONEY STILL BEING USED TOO MUCH FOR DEEP STATE ACTIVITIES?  Let's remove the lobbying-type systems that are enabling politicians to make back room deals which foster greed and unrighteousness.  Let's get corrupt leaders have speedier due process of law, and get them fined and put into prison.

Let's vet the process more rigorously for candidate selection, which will aside from talent will include morals, honesty, and integrity as part of its list!

I envision this party as one which honors the Constitution, but takes it to the next level, consolidating righteousness, and addressing modern problems which exist today.

Let's make prayer publicly accessible.  I understand that not everyone will belong to the same faith.  I envision Utah or the Mormon Corridor states raising the bar on everything!

Let's preserve physical currency (never allowing digital currency to dominate the rights of the people!  Let's not allow social credit scores and electronic surveillance to destroy the peace and rights of the people!  Let's promote the gold standard which would include the use of precious metals and less precious metals promoted and preserved as part of our physical currency.  This does all have ramifications for banking and finances.  This will be done in steps.

More being done to eradicate drugs and heal drug addictions, and prevent drug addictions in our state and country!

Medical freedom and integrity.  

Money allocated for research to standardize organic herbal treatments.  Promotion of insurance systems which will pay for treatments leading to true health.

Revamp our school and public health systems to get the filth out.  God-like people know what the filth is being put into people's minds.

As part of health, those who wish to remain in our Zion-like States can find the right treatment to overcome, for instance, the neurosis of LGBTQ, as we were not designed to be that way.  Money for funding some health research without corruption.  Health money will also be allocated towards public health campaigns which promote integrity of the body and mind.  Remember when X decades ago they started with Just So No to drugs, and smoking or alcohol cessation?  These new suggestions and issues will be the next generation of cleaning up the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the people.

Do more to promote healthy entertainment, deemphasizing and removing entertainment which is not in the best interests of the people.  Also, to promote honest media reporting!! -- criminalizing more speedily, lying of our leaders in politics, business (etc), and promoting in the public eye and business sense-- any News station which will broadcast the truth about events.

Opening up pathways to encourage moral behavior and impose fines for immoral behavior after repeated failure.  This would be a process.  Now there is little to support moral behavior other than Houses of Faith (some of them) because our current system does very little to curtail adultery, fornication, living together without commitment, does little to educate about marriage and preparation for marriage, does not tell the truth about LGBTQ dysfunction (nor foster true healing from that).  Things need to change to encourage more education where in the evils of immorality can be explained from real stories of misery and what immoral practices cost our nation.  Sexual education needs to be reformed!  Anyways, I envision money being used to promote education which encourages moral living.

There are likely a lot more ideas to put to paper.  All good ideas need to be set down utilized in all areas of politics, governance, business, and life.  We want Utah to be the First state to start this movement.  A person may say, Well, what about the Constitution Party?  Although religious people are signed up on their rolls, I doubt that the Constitution Party, because it is also national, would subscribe to all the tenets of Zion, or even tenets of morality because they just focus of the Constitution, which allows no faith to coexist with faith, meaning that the law will only go so far, and will hold back somewhat when it comes to faith.  I just think it's the right thing to do to bring a higher level, to "think Celestial" even in politics, and then we can be the example of a people that bows its knee (or is trying hard to do so) to the governance of Christ the Messiah both in private and public. 

Zion or Bust!  

The Zion Party.  This is not to be confused with the negative sayings about Zionism of the Middle East, but it's the real meaning of Zion which is a place of righteousness and pureness of heart.  Zion comes from Tzion (Hebrew) which means a place of righteousness.  An Alternate name would be the Deseret Party.

Click here:  Form a New Political Party – Utah Voter Information

It would be interesting to see how many LDS General Authorities, especially when approached, would join the party, and who would oppose it.

Here's information about party for others states in the Mormon Corridor:

Idaho:  This may lead you to the information: https://sos.idaho.gov/elections-division/

Other helpful information for Idaho:  https://sos.idaho.gov/elect/other.html 

Wyoming:  https://sos.wyo.gov/Forms/Elections/Parties/PartyPetitionGuidelines.pdf  

Arizona: https://azsos.gov/elections/candidates/running-office/creating-political-party

Nevada:  https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/home/showpublisheddocument/10564/638266480307830000    Here's other possible helpful information:  https://www.nvsos.gov/sos/organized-political-parties 

If your state is not listed, just do an internet search term, How to form a political party in {...} 

This is to lay the foundation for change.  Good will come out of the process of forming a new party, in my opinion because it will raise public awareness just by going out to get signatures.  If not for Washington DC then it's just for the areas where the good people want to gather and see governance done by honest and upright people.  

The Republican party is still too swampy and isn't vetting its candidates enough nor vetting the money trail and train.  The Democrat party is words I won't type here.  The Libertarians condone too much wickedness (not just freedom).  Etc.  DJT is just one man and he also, has lived a life with some behaviors which were unbecoming.  We need someone better than him.  I don't necessarily expect enough ground-work to be laid before the November 2024 elections, but it's time to do something to raise the bar, and try!!!!  In the current system people are allowed to change parties back and forth within X days before an election, so if your preferred candidate is in one of the mainstream parties, you can still participate in a New party of which I speak and still vote for your preferred this time around.  Please don't use a certain preferred candidate as an excuse to not move forward in righteousness!

I'm just here at the computer.  Don't expect me to do it all.  Righteous brave priesthood holders especially, and other good people of both genders and faiths need to step up to the plate.   My spouse has a lot of patriotic friends.  Someone that is good at hosting a Zoom meeting can do so, and a party platform statement can be established, a logo can be made over the course of several meetings.  Bonus points for putting the message out to moral lawyers (those who understand and believe in the Constitution and are grounded in spiritual, Biblical and Book of Mormon concepts of freedom and governance).  Etc..

Please contact me via https://gatheringzion.com and find the contact page (i.e. look at the website too)  Or just go straight to the contact page  (scroll down on it to the Contact form.) https://gatheringzion.com/about-us-contact   I can advertise a Zoom meeting on my website, or let others know if interest in this has traction, or... it can definitely be done through other social media.  My plate is already full as they say, but I was given the inspiration to get others going on this project.  

A lot of this reasoning and process is to start to consolidate righteous people together out of the corrupt political systems.  It's not going to happen by magic.  The effort actually has to be made.  The Ensign has to be lifted up.

Community Hanukkah and President Grant's comments about Anti-Semitism

In December 2023 I went to a couple of Hanukkah community celebrations put on by the local Chabad organizations.  For those of you who don't know what Chabad is, it's a branch of Orthodox Hasidic Judaism.   As someone not raised in that faith, I will say that they have interesting articles to read on their website!  https://www.chabad.org 

There was a woman, who gave one of the speeches at this Hanukkah gathering.  She quoted former LDS President Heber J. Grant (1856-1945) (He served as president from 1918 until his death).  In part of his talk in Spring General Conference (April 1921) he spoke about the Jewish people.  

He said, "Some of you may be familiar with the agitation that is going on at the present time, in the publications, against Jewish people.  There should be no ill-will, and I am sure there is none, in the heart of any true Latter-day Saint, toward the Jewish people.  By the authority of the Holy Priesthood of God, that has again been restored to the earth, and by the ministration, under the direction of the Prophet of God, Apostles of the Lord Jesus Christ have been to the Holy Land and have dedicated that country for the return of the Jews;  and we believe that in the due time of the Lord they shall be in the favor of God again.  And let no Latter-day Saint be guilty of taking any part in any crusade against these people.  I believe in no other part of the world is there as good a feeling in the hearts of mankind towards the Jewish people as among the Latter-day Saints."  From Page 124 of the LDS Church General Conference record, 91st Annual General Conference, April 1921.  

First Night of Hanukkah, 2023, in the Utah State Capitol Building

There were several speakers, one of whom was from the Holocaust era.  Another lady played beautiful music on a grand piano.  After the meeting ended, there was opportunity to meet and talk with people, eat the Jewish desserts, or take a picture by the Menorah (Chanukiah).  My guest and I met one lady from Israel who was here on military assignment, a really nice man who spoke to me like family, and some of the event organizers.  I hope to go again next year.

On the 6th night of Hanukkah, I went to another location to a city within an hour away, but unfortunately the traffic was so bad, and the weather wasn't the best, so I got there right about when it ended; it was a shorter ceremony.  However, not to waste the opportunity, I still went in and took pictures and spoke to a few people.

The Outdoor Ambience

6th Night of Hanukkah with the Servant Candle in the Middle.  

Lights under the Light.  Or is that the All-Seeing Eye of the Capitol?  Lol.

A Star of David in the marble floor.  Not just for Hanukkah, but for as long as the life of the floor. This is a public building but the builders had lofty ideals of the unification of the Tribes of Israel.

Beautiful Architecture

A Bank for Righteous People / Goldbacks, Gold

Here in the Intermountain West, in this state, Gold is considered legal tender, if needed.

Have you heard of the Goldback?  It's a currency that is made into similar sizes as denominated dollar bills.  It is made of some kind of sturdy laminate ("polymer sheeting") with real gold infused into the polymer, by a calculated portion of a troy ounce of gold.   The value of the individual Goldback is tethered to the market value of gold.

The purpose of the Goldback is to be used in smaller transactions than the typical value of a Gold coin.

https://www.goldback.com/how-goldbacks-are-made  

Some businesses have agreed to take Goldback in commercial transactions.

One Goldback, embedded with 1/1,000th of a Troy Oz of 24 karat gold.

Actual Size

~4.625in (~11.74cm)

~2.57in (~6.53cm)

In the website's FAQs (frequently asked questions), it says,  "The Goldback may be owned by individuals in any State, however, Goldbacks would only qualify as an actual currency where authorized by local or state law."

FYI: Sometimes people accept Goldback in a transaction regardless of legal standing because gold in and of itself, has value.

Several states already have Goldback:  Utah, Nevada, New Hampshire, Wyoming, and South Dakota.  Other States could be in the works in the future, and the company will consider working with individuals who want to see Goldbacks in their State.

https://www.goldback.com/sponsor-new-goldback-series

Also there is a lesser amount of Silverbacks.

Other places in the world have their own polymer golden currency.  See https://valaurum.com/  

https://valaurum.com/product-category/holiday/

Available for Hanukkah or Christmas

Legal Tender in Ghana

Anyways, this post isn't just about Goldbacks or Silverbacks.  Other people may prefer the ownership of gold or silver coinage.  I would not recommend buying gold or silver on paper and then not having it in your physical possession.

Anyways, I am not necessarily pushing Goldback or Silverback.  I am just talking about Goldback to show that a small group of people got an idea about it, and did something!  We all know that the Dollar is not what it used to be!  

It would be cool if a bunch of righteous people could get together, and somehow, get a large amount of precious metals and lower metals (for currency under One Dollar), and mint a large amount of these coins (with security of course to protect the assets), and get a bank chain going out here in the West, to introduce a larger amount of precious (non inflationary metals) into the community.  But this bank would be run under different rules:  Only good people can open an account (with some kind of background check to assure that the people aren't likely to use the gold for greed, drugs, and other things which are harmful for the human race).  Large amounts would only be loaned out by a loan officer who will check out the reason for the loan (proof produced).  People could exchange their US currency for precious metals, and then the Bank owners could use the US currency to buy up land and other wise commodities to help the people of their State.

The purpose of allowing only decent people to do this should be obvious, but in case it isn't, people who use money to do things that are bad for themselves and bad for others, is one of the things that leads to society being sick, especially when it comes to greediness, crime, and rich and poor.  Gold is precious.  Why put a monetary precious item into the hands of greedy, spiritually sick people?  They won't do good with it.  We need only good and charitable-minded people to have such wealth.