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If Zion prospers, all is well.

2 Nephi 28:21:

And others will he [the devil] pacify, and lull them away into carnal security, that they will say: All is well in Zion; yea, Zion prospereth, all is well—and thus the devil cheateth their souls, and leadeth them away carefully down to hell.

(See also No Devil, No Hell.)

Moses Hoge, 1752–1820, 1821 (posthumous), p. 348, in Sermon 22, “The Citizen of Zion,” upon the text of Psalms 137:5–6:

It is scarcely to be supposed, that any man who believes in the divine origin of our holy religion, can be so abandoned as not to wish that religion may prosper and prevail. But how few appear to prefer the prosperity of Zion to their highest earthly joy? Yet this must, undoubtedly, be the case with every faithful and affectionate citizen. The most earnest inquiry of an Israelite indeed, is not, “What shall I eat, what shall I drink, and wherewithal shall I be clothed?” But rather, “By whom shall Jacob arise for he is small” No intelligence is so welcome, or affords him so much satisfaction, as an a count of the advancement of the Redeemer’s king-dom. Nor does any thing afflict him so much, as the decline of religion in the world. It is with Zion that his joys rise and fall. Is he in adversity? Is he poor and despised? If Zion prospers, all is well. But he cannot be satisfied with the most prosperous circumstances, while the ways of Zion mourn, and her interests are in a declining state.

Nephi flips it, and claims that only the devil and his followers would claim that “Zion prospereth, all is well.”

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