TREASURE IN SALEM

I have read D&C 111 many times and wondered after that prophetic utterance - it seemed to not come to fruition as it reads on the face of it.  I also know that the prophetic gift is not always black and white and cannot always be taken at face value.  For example, the OT states that the Messiah would come out of Egypt, but that he would also be a Nazarene.  The two would appear to be juxtaposed to each other - and it would have been confusing in the day that it occurred in a real-time setting.  I also know the prophecies were fulfilled every jot and tittle in that case.  Just not as many might have expected before the events began to be fulfilled.  Many times, you can only understand things in hind sight and in the retrospective waning light of the day - not in the bright noon sun.  Patience and "watching and waiting" is required.  I think the obvious fulfillments are withheld or obfuscated on purpose in order to confuse the devil, to shake the faith of those who are weak (as a sifter) and to teach the "patience of the Saints".  God is always playing a chess game and has to stay at least one step ahead of the great deceiver in order to come out the victor in the end.  Having an easily discerned outcome would play into the hand of the deceiver - so things must, of a necessity, be hard to read.

So, as I have read up on the Dream Mine - I have to wonder if the great treasures that are purported to be stored there will one day be used to help the Church out of financial ruin and to ultimately set up the massive kingdom of God on the earth in all her glory - remember that we are only in our infancy; every bit as much as the early Church was in 1830 compared to what it is now.  The kingdom will fill all of North and South America - it will fill the earth.  That takes incredible wealth, it takes incredible funding, it has been prophesied of since the beginning of time.  Many, in consecrated times past, have hidden their wealth up to be used for this very purpose so that they could be a "part" of that great future work of which we are about to embark upon.  The Dream Mine wealth purports to be part of that.  There are several other "repositories" that will come forth in North and South America when its time for the great city to be built and the one right and true world government to emanate from that location.  Nothing will rival it. 

In 1960, the capitol of Brazil was in a suburb of Rio de Janeiro, Petropolis.  A US-backed, military junta took over the government and wiped the slate clean, so to speak.  They decided to build a new capitol city in the middle of nowhere, partly to build a stronger Brazilian presence inland to fend off those who might be prone to grab uninhabited territory on the western borders and also to make a clean start and become a model of western society - and fend of the pressing communistic influences on the country.  Brasilia was born - everything was new and wonderful and represented a new hope and a new direction that the country could take.  It did not turn out as planned - the social experiment largely failed in its objectives.   When the U.S. has been purged of most all wickedness and a new heaven and a new earth have been established, a new world capitol city will be born and nothing will bring it down and Christ will be her governor and her champion and angels among her inhabitants.  I long for this city - we truly should be yearning for Zion with all our hearts.

In order to bring this about, I have repeatedly wondered if the Salem of John Koyle will end up being the Salem spoken of in Doctrine and Covenants, Section 111.  I suppose, time will tell.  I think we live in amazing and exciting times.  What is coming will boggle the mind.