{"id":1609,"date":"2021-07-20T19:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-07-20T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/?p=1609"},"modified":"2021-07-21T19:37:59","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T19:37:59","slug":"babylon-versus-zion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/babylon-versus-zion\/","title":{"rendered":"Babylon Versus Zion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-medium-font-size\">If Babylon is the city of the world, Zion is the city of God. The Lord has said of Zion: \u201cZion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/dc-testament\/dc\/105.5?lang=eng#p5\">D&amp;C 105:5<\/a>) and, \u201cFor this is Zion\u2014the pure in heart\u201d (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/scriptures\/dc-testament\/dc\/97.21?lang=eng#p21\">D&amp;C 97:21<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\">Wherever we are, whatever city we may live in, we can build our own Zion by the principles of the celestial kingdom and ever seek to become the pure in heart. Zion is the beautiful, and the Lord holds it in His own hands. Our homes can be places which are a refuge and protection, as Zion is. \u2013 <em>David R. Stone, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchofjesuschrist.org\/study\/general-conference\/2006\/04\/zion-in-the-midst-of-babylon?lang=eng\">Zion in the Midst of Babylon<\/a>,\u201d Ensign (CR) May 2006<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Babylon is the city of the world, Zion is the city of God. The Lord has said of Zion: \u201cZion cannot be built up unless it is by the principles of the law of the celestial kingdom\u201d (D&amp;C 105:5) and, \u201cFor this is Zion\u2014the pure in heart\u201d (D&amp;C 97:21). Wherever we are, whatever city [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[126,218],"class_list":["post-1609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wool-quote","tag-home","tag-zion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1609"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1610,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1609\/revisions\/1610"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailywool.net\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}