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14: The Fall of Zion and Zion’s Camp

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Impressions of a Prophet: Joseph Smith

14: The Fall of Zion and Zion's Camp

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From the last episode we learned why around 1200 saints had moved from Kirtland, OH to Independence, MO, with more on the way. In this episode we learn about how the locals, who were largely frontiersmen and former southerners, didn’t love the idea of the northerner religious saints moving in and kind of taking over […]

13: Independence – The New Jerusalem

Impressions of a Prophet: Joseph Smith

13: Independence - The New Jerusalem

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The Lord revealed the “center place” for the gathering of the saints in the last days, and the place of Zion, the New Jerusalem, in 1831 to Joseph Smith. The place was Independence, Missouri – a city at that time on the western boundary of the United States (west of that was all Indian territory).