The theocrat. [volume] (Zion City [i.e. Zion], Ill.) 1914-1949, 1919-02-01
What is Zion?


God in operation among men for Gods glory
| honor and praise If all the houses, streets, in
Sttutions and industries, apostles, elders, dea-
cons and deaconesses, and women, boys
and girls, and babes in mothers arms, are cOnse
Grated to God, that is Zion. That is "a city which
hath foundations, whose Builder and Maker is
God"
God never sends the angels down to establish
that kind of city. God Himself is the Builder
| and Maker and He uses human instrumentallty
Men and women have come to this city to wor-
ship God and they have brought their all fo1
the extension of Gods Kingdom - just as did
the wise men of old, when they brought their
gold frankincense and myrrh which afterward
paid the travelling expenses Of Joseph and Mary
when they fled to Egypt.
The men who despise Wilbur Glenn Voliva
who despise Zion and the Christian Catholic
Apostolic Church in Zion, do not prosper in any
way. That is the reason they have not accom-
plished anything.
| say to you deliberately, that it is my con
cusion that this work is of God or it would have
perished long ago. If the General Overseer had
not been Gods Servant he would never have
poured out his life as he has, but he would have
sought life Of ease.
John Alexander Dowie heard the call of God
was inspired of God, forsook all his lifelong
land without dollar, without a friend; but
with God in his heart and conception of Zion
in his soul and spirit and God used him nightly
! for the establishment of Zion.
Let me tell you something about the city they
called Jerusalem, which was possessed by the
Tebusites, who committed inconceivable crimes
that city, which God had designed for a great
future which David had rescued from the heath
en- and which he purified and cleansed and called
Zion = Gods city David was Gods man. No
matter what Jerusalem became afterwards and
no matter how far down it sunk, it was designed
to be Gods city. (Read I Chronicles II 49,
Is Jerusalem to be the capital of the world
in the next dispensation? Is it to be the metrop-
oils of the Milennial Theocratic Rule?
Jesus the Christ, Gods Son, was crowned in
that city with a crown of thorns. He did not
wear the crown which David had worn and He
did not rule the city, because the Jews, as a
nation, rejected their King After Israels re-
lection, Jerusalem was trodden down of the Gen
tiles and the Jews were scattered over all the
earth.
Jerusalem will be the city, from which Christ
will rule during the Millennium; so this city of
Zion must be miniature pattern and model OF
that city. The people, who will be joint rulers
with Christ over the Kingdom must first be
taught obedience and the Theocratic rule of God
here in Zion.
In Gods miniature Zion in Zion City, Illi-
nois-the people must be fashioned for joint
rulership over that kind of Kingdom That
is the reason Jerusalem is not in the hands of
the Jews as yet. Gods Church is not fully pre-
pared and made ready for joint rulership with
Him. Christ will not begin His reign in Jerusa-
lem until a body of people has been called out
fashioned, trained and prepared to share that
rule with Him.
| Wilbur Glenn Voliva, the leader of Zion, has
a vision of the Millennial Kingdom that John
Alexander Dowe did not have, and he has been
set at the head of this organization to finish the
work that John Alexander Dowie established
He has been called of God as much as Abraham
John Alexander Dowie or John the Baptist and
he has been given particular mission and
place to exercise his office and perform his work
This, therefore, is Gods city just as much as
Jerusalem. 1t precedes or goes before that city
| Jerusalem must be redeemed cleansed, purified
and presented to Jesus Christ for His coming il
glory to reign upon the earth.
AS Jerusalem must be cleansed and presented
to Jesus Christ, so when Jesus the Christ comes
in the Rapture, He will find a body of men and
women in Zion City trained and fashioned fol
the Milennial Rule from Mount Zon-Jerusa-
lem. The Lord will not have to put in three and
one-half years with them.
AS the OeneIal OVerSeer mas SAID, would II
not be a nice situation indeed for you or foi
me to be presented before the Judgment Seat oil
Christ when the Rapture takes place if we die
not know what was meant by the Millennia
Rule of Christ? What kind of Joint rulers with
Him would we make?
| This city must be purified, cleansed, redeemed
and given over to Jesus Christ at His coming
We must be redeemed people, prepared fol
rulership.
Therefore, you can see the purpose Of Wilbur