Isaiah 62:1-2; “For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth. 2 And the Gentiles shall see thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the LORD shall name.”
Luke 2:32; “A light to lighten the Gentiles, and the glory of thy people Israel.”
Revelation 3:12; “Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.”
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America is/was the ‘promised land’ only for those seeking a new country to gain a better life while here on earth. The true Zion is in Israel. The Bible doesn’t tell us where the New Jerusalem will be, but from all past indications it certainly won’t be America.
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Encyclopedia of Mormonism, p 1009; “The tenth article of faith, written by the Prophet Joseph Smith in 1842, declares that the New Jerusalem will be built upon the American continent. He learned this as he translated the Book of Mormon (3 Ne. 20:22; Ether 13:2-6).”
Revelation 21, the new Jerusalem is on the new earth, in the new heaven, where there is no sea.