1 Nephi 22:19

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19 For behold, the righteous shall not perish; for the time surely must come that all they who fight against Zion shall be cut off.


Quotes for Discussion


What will happen to those “who fight against Zion”?
The new Jerusalem, a land of peace, a city of refuge, a place of safety for the saints of the Most High God….The wicked will not come unto it, and it shall be called Zion…the only people that shall not be at war one with another….It shall be said among the wicked: Let us not go up to battle against Zion, for the inhabitants of Zion are terrible; wherefore we cannot stand.
D&C 45:66-70




“For behold, the day cometh that shall burn as an oven, and all the proud, yea, and all that do wickedly shall burn as stubble; for they that come shall burn them, saith the Lord of Hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.” (Joseph Smith—History 1:37.) Those left without “root” or “branch” are those who have rejected the sealing power of the priesthood and thus are “cut off” from the eternal family unit.
Millet & McConkie, BOM Commentary, Vol 1 p. 176


Who will endure the calamities preceding the Second Coming?
Vengeance cometh speedily upon the ungodly as the whirlwind; and who shall escape it?...Zion shall escape if she observe to do all things whatsoever I have commanded her” (D&C 97:22, 25).
The priesthood of God who honor their priesthood, and who are worthy of their blessings are the only ones who shall have this safety….No other people have a right to be shielded from these judgments….Not even this people will escape them entirely.
Wilford Woodruff, in Collected Discourses, 4:229-30


We do not say that all of the Saints will be spared and saved from the coming day of desolation. But we do say there is no promise of safety and no promise of security except for those who love the Lord and who are seeking to do all that he commands.
Bruce R. McConkie, Ensign, May 1979, 93


I explained concerning the coming of the Son of Man; also that it is a false idea that the Saints will escape all the judgments, whilst the wicked suffer; for all flesh is subject to suffer, and “the righteous shall hardly escape;” still many of the Saints will escape, for the just shall live by faith; yet many of the righteous shall fall a prey to disease, to pestilence, etc., by reason of the weakness of the flesh, and yet be saved in the Kingdom of God. So that it is an unhallowed principle to say that such and such have transgressed because they have been preyed upon by disease or death, for all flesh is subject to death; and the Savior has said, “Judge not, lest ye be judged.”
Joseph Smith, TPJS, 162