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The Letter News of Zions Outpost Independent Branch 1733 Northeast Parkway, Wichita Ks. 67208 MAY/JUN 1988 VOL. 3 NO. 3

WE HAVE MOVED ANOTHER BABY! RAY TREAT VISIT Zion's Outpost has On April 25, 1988 We were very pleased to officially moved to a new Rebekah Danielle Elliott have Ray Treat in Wichita location. Over the entered the world. Her for a weekend of classes Memorial Day weekend we parents are Dan and Lana. concerning the Book of moved into a church She enters a family with 2 Mormon. Ray is the building in Park City. The brothers - Joshua and president of the new address is 6300 Jacob, and 1 sister- Zarahemla Research Tarrytown*, 67219. The . Foundation. This group, new phone number is 744- Rebekah is doing very founded by Ray and his 1020. This new building well now. She had a little wife a few years ago is greatly increases our trouble getting out of the devoted to discovering capacity to give a full hospital, but it was more new truths about the Book range of ministry to our of a problem for her of Mormon and getting people and the community. doctor than for Rebekah. this information out to We invite you come and She was blessed on May people. see our new building and 8, 1988 by Elders Gary While Ray was here worship with us. Whiting and Conrad Friend. over May 21 and 22, he With more room we have As a note, the Elliotts discussed findings in expanded our Sunday have moved into a new archeology, geography, School ministry. More home. Send mail to 6321 N. Hebrew nature and classes have been added to Ulysses, Wichita, KS 67219. insights into the teachings better fit the various age New phone is 744-2366. of the . groups. They should never be late He introduced the first Our schedule of services for church --the church is volume of a new study remains the same with next door!!! edition of the Book of Mormon which is now Sunday ZION'S CAMP 1988 available. Early Worship 9:30am We were all challenged Sunday School 9:45am We will again be holding to ready ourselves for the Preaching 11:00am this weekend of study and upcoming BOMB. That is Evening Class 5:00pm worship. It will be held at the Book Of Mormon the new building. The dates Breakthrough. There is Wednesday are July 8-10. A full listing going to be a period of Prayer Service 7:15pm of the schedule is given time when the world will inside the newsletter. If be led to seek out the We are still using 1733 you are planning to come truth about the Book of Northeast Parkway, from out of town and need Mormon. The Lord will Wichita, KS, 67208 as our a place to stay, please need people who are ready official mailing address. contact us ASAP. to minister when that happens. We must use this * A map showing the CORRECTION time to prepare for this location of the new In the last issue we time. We know God is building is on the back misspelled a name. Sorry ready. page of this newsletter. Maryl Hammel. We goofed! (continued pg 2) Ray Treat Work on the Inspired CONCORDANCE UPDATE Version concordance is Our church library has a progressing. You can full set of videotapes and We are pleased to contact us about how to audio cassettes of Ray's announce that the Book of order. We will be sharing lessons available. If you Mormon/Doctrine and distribution responsibility would like to use these Covenants concordance is with Daryle Hager, the please contact us. available at $30.00 apiece. owner of the computer You may contact Ray This is a new printing and programming. We will fill Treat and receive his is even better than the the orders we have. materials, etc by writing to first printing we had him at: available. We do need to ask for $3.00 per book to Zarahemla Research cover postage costs if we Foundation, P.O. Box 1727, mail it to you. Send orders Independence, MO 64055. to Zion's Outpost Publications.

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FOR YOUR INFORMATION and the people by this name were people of unrighteousness. This eventually led to This month we are bringing you more them receiving a blackness {Gen 7:10}. spelling corrections that need to be made These people were contemporary with the in the latest printing of the Inspired people of Cainan. It seems logical that Version. It appears that in the they must have been in different places. preparation of the texts for printing, the Satan always like to produce a editors failed to keep track of the counterfeit to the real thing designed by various spellings of the names Cainan and God. This would explain why the names Canaan. of these two places were so close to each Cainan is the name of the son of Enos other. {Gen 6:15}. Enos is the grandson of Adam. With this information the story in Enos led his people to a land of promise Genesis is easier to follow. It also leads which he named after his son Cainan to some interesting questions. { Gen 6:15}. This Cainan is the great grandfather of Enoch {Gen 6:17-22}, who Where was the land of Cainan? built the city of Zion. Every reference to this land should be spelled Cainan. Was Cainan the place of Zion? It appears that it was in this land of promise that Enoch was raised. Could it What happened to the people of be possible that this is the place where Cainan? Zion was built? At least we know that the land of Cainan was a land of promise We hope you find this information of and, apparently, righteousness. use. Perhaps it will stimulate you to In chapter 7 of Genesis another land is study the Inspired Version more closely. described which is mistakenly given as the land of Cainan. It should be given as Canaan. From research conducted by Robert The Restoration Letter is published 6 Matthews and given in his book, "A times a year by Zion's Outpost, Inc. If Plainer Translation" 's you enjoy it tell your friends and send us Translation of the , we found that their names. A $5.00 annual donation will the references in verses 6,8,9,10,and 14 of help us to provide this newsletter to Genesis 7 should read Canaan. This land more people. ZION'S CAMP 1988

July 8, 9, 10, 1988

This year's theme is: "Ye Shall Receive Power"

Friday, July 8, 1988

7:00pm Sermon - "And it shall come to pass in the last days" Jim Crawford [Acts 2:17-21; Joel 2:28; 1Nephi 3:187]

Saturday, July 9, 1988

8:00 - 10:00 am Prayer/Testimony Service - "The kingdom of God is not in word, but in power." [1 Corinthians 4:20]

10:15 - 11:45am Class - "Purify your hearts, then go into all the world" Cecil Corder [Sections 105:11b and 1:5f]

12:00 - 1:20pm Lunch

1:30 - 2:30pm Class - Keeping the Sabbath holy Steve Anders

2:45 - 3:45pm Class - Listening for the still small voice - Discernment Roger Smith

4:00 - 5:20pm Class - And these signs shall follow ... Who are believers? Chuck Sperry

5:30 - 6:45pm Evening meal

7:15pm Sermon - "I have prepared a blessing and an " Dan Elliott [Section 102:5b]

Sunday, July 10, 1988

9:30 - 10:40am Class - Putting Temporal and Spiritual Equality into action Gary Metzger [Alma 16:249,250; Exodus 16:16-18]

11:00 - 12:30pm Sermon - "Converted to Jesus Christ" Gary Whiting [3 Nephi 3:63; 4 Nephi 1:3]

12:45 - 2:15pm Lunch

2:30 - 3:30pm Class - "Be ye made whole" - confession and forgiveness Dave Newman

Sponsored by Zion's Outpost Branch all classes and services will be held at 6300 Tarrytown Park City, KS 316 - 744 - 1020

3 Thoughts upon the Kingdom of God Robert E. Giertz, Jr. Consider for a moment the water God intends for his Zion to be prepared lily. There are three distinct types. One from the labors of his children. If we lives completely below the level of the are to be saved by this latter day ark, as water, never knowing the light of the was Noah, it will be because we build it. sun. A second kind lives just at the In our attempt to establish the level of the water, neither growing kingdom of God, we must not allow towards the light above or the darkness stumbling-blocks of seemingly unsolvable below. The third type of lily grows nature to detain us from reaching our entirely above the water. The white goal. When the , and blooms of the lily that grows totally Nephi were commanded to make barges within the light if the sun are the largest for their respective voyages, they did not and strongest. complain because their local hardware People often fall into the same stores were closed. They made the tools catagories as do the water lilies. Either and the materials they required through a they live their lives in total darkness sincere faith in their Lord Jesus Christ having rejected all light, or indifference and the use of a skill little used today, to their surroundings, or within the light human ingenuity. of the Son. When we find ourselves in these The call to the body of Christ's situations today, we cannot stop the work church is one of restoration. To prepare for the want of instruments to accomplish and repair lives. The church is called to our task. We must learn to utilize the restore the fullness that once was, and as skills and the talents of those among us. it is to be, and not to be content with We must take inventory of what we what it has become. possess that can be used in the building We can not excuse ourselves from up of Zion. We must not allow ourselves the duty of establishing God's kingdom. to remain ignorant, but instruct the There is historical proof that the saints ignorant to become wise. can accomplish the purposes set before Do we believe that the faithful them if they follow God's pattern. The remnant truly represents the only True church, while headquartered for seven and Living church upon the face of the years in Kirtland, grew from an earth? Do we believe that we are called insignificant neighbor religion to a large to labor in these last days for Zion? If and formidable "christian" body of so, then we can ill afford to put off believers. what must begin today. The knowledge The saints while at Nauvoo carved we have in our possession is sufficient to out their own city from swampland. They guide and direct us step by step. We used their skills to create a reality from have no need of further instruction until a dream. we complete that which we have already The concept of Zion today must been given. include using physical force and means, Can you not live a life dedicated to by manual labor and not through mental the Lord for one hour? Begin at a small gymnastics by spiritual giants who hope point; can you not live for the Lord for that Zion can be conceptualized and one minute? Yes? Then can we not conceived merely because they will it in multiply that by sixty to make an hour, their mind's eye. and then live that hour for the Lord? It is nonsense to talk about building Yes? Then can we not take that hour any kingdom except by labor. Zion is a and live it for a week, a month, a year? city which has a real and vital existence, If we apply our hearts and our and is to return to earth only when its hands to obtaining wisdom, and ask the counterpart is prepared on the earth. (continued on page 5) Lord to impart it to us, then if we but 1 Corinthians 6:10 know a little, we can improve upon it, Job 12:25 and that tomorrow we may have more, Psalm 107:27 and thus grow from day to day, in the Proverbs 31:4-7 knowledge of the truth, even as Jesus Christ grew in stature and in knowledge, precept upon precept. Concerning herbs and meat DECREASING CLOUDINESS Daniel 1:8-17 Gen 1:31,32 I.V. The Word of Wisdom is a very Section49:3d-f important part of living in obedience to God. The promise associated with living Care of our bodies along these guidelines is tremendous. Health and wisdom and knowledge are the Section 85:38b attributes required of a Zionic people. Jeremiah 35:14 A word of caution is needed here. So Section 119:9 often in discussions of Section 86 we are lead to believe that all of these exciting Concerning illness/pain promises will come to us just because we eat whole wheat and give up and Section 119:9 Coke. This is just not so. Section 42:12,13 Simply following the rules of the Word James 5:14,15 of Wisdom does not qualify one for these Alma 21:75,76 promises. Simply following the formulas of this revelation is not obedience. Obedience is faith. Anyone could eat and Do you know of any other scriptures drink properly and yet be out of favor that might apply? If so please send them with God. Obedience follows in the life of in to Restoration Letter, % Zion's Outpost those listening to the Spirit of God. Publications. If the Word of Wisdom is to make a difference in your life, your life must already be different. You must know the Spirit of God and be faithfully following "God has said that he would have a its leadings. Then, as faith and the Word tried people, and that he would purify of Wisdom are mixed by the Spirit, the them as gold is purified; now we think he promises of God are open to all. has chosen his own crucible to try us, and if we should be so happy as to The Word of Wisdom is not the only endure and keep the faith it will be a place in the scriptures that health is sign to this generation, sufficient to discussed. Below are listed some other leave them without excuse; and that it scriptures to study along with Section 86. will be a trial of our faith equal to that of Abraham or any of the ancients" Concerning alcohol/drinking --Joseph Smith, Jr. , Vol 1, No. 7, pg 102 Proverbs 20:1 Proverbs 23:29-35 And it came to pass that I, Nephi, said Isaiah 5:11,12 unto my father, I will go and do the Isaiah 28:7,8 things which the Lord hath commanded, Ephesians 5:17,18 for I know that the Lord giveth no 1 Timothy 3:2,3 commandments unto the children of men, 1 Peter 4:3 save he shall prepare a way for them Romans 14:21 that they may accomplish the thing which Romans 13:13 he commandeth them. 1 Nephi 1:65

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