What is the “New Jerusalem”?

Thomas R. Valletta

“In the Book of Mormon ‘New Jerusalem’ has at least two meanings: (1) a holy city to be built in the latter days ‘upon this land [America]’ (Ether 13:4–7; 3 Ne. 21:23–24; A of F 10); and (2) a heavenly city ‘which should come down out of heaven’ at the beginning of the Millennium, when the Savior returns to the earth, to join the earthly New Jerusalem (Ether 13:3; cf. Moses 7:60–64)” (Largey, Book of Mormon Reference Companion, 611).

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