THE NEW JERUSALEM SCROLL

 One of the ancient writings discovered with the Dead Sea Scrolls is the New Jerusalem Scroll. A prophecy written on the manuscript is a description of a city. A researcher named J. J. Brown has pointed out that it seems to be describing Salt Lake City.  The ancient writing describes a place called the New Jerusalem that would be built in a later date. This is a translation of the text:

"The city itself was divided into square blocks like a checkerboard. Each block was surrounded by a spacious street, and the city as a whole was divided by larger streets, three passing from east to west, and two passing from north to south."

It goes on to say the city was laid out according to the compass. It also describes how the streets begin at a temple and specifically a street to the north named after it. It even mentions the large sidewalks.  In the scrolls it pdescribes a city of 18.67 miles by 13.33 miles. This is much too big to be any ancient city. It describes a large area that is oblong. The land set aside for Salt Lake was quite large right from the beginning.

Brown measured the size of Salt Lake using Google Earth. He found the length measured at 18.72 and the width at 13.36 miles. These are within 0.05 off from the size written in the New Jerusalem Scroll. Here is a link to the presentation of his findings.  I am not claiming that SLC is the New Jerusalem.  But, patterned after the New Jerusalem?  Isn't it amazing how inspired the Prophet Brigham Young was (in the which I believe he had gone over the plans for this city with Joseph Smith before his martydom)?  By their fruits ye shall know them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFT1pE_6eY0

Enjoy!!