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This is book 6 of the Pillars of Zion Series. This book questions our attitude toward wealth-seeking and accumulating and our treatment of those who live in poverty. In the end, how we answer these questions determines whether or not we are Zion people. The principles outlined in this book describe how to achieve unequalled abundance the Lord's way while not devolving into Babylon. This volume includes the following: -Introduction: Dream of a Better World -Giving Opens the Doors to Blessings -Laying the Foundation -Lessons from the Good Samaritan -Chapter 1: Ultimate Test-God or Mammon -Test of Riches -Only the Pure in Heart Can Pass This Test -Lord's Willingness to Be Tested -Consecration Is All about Love -A Coming Change of Orders -Conclusion -Chapter 2: Thou Shalt Not Covet-Last Law -Covetousness-Last Law -Higher and Lower Laws of Prosperity -More Weighty Matters -Trying to Mix Mammon and Zion -Warnings Against Compromise -Making Mammon Holy -Mormon's View of the Last Days -Chapter 3: First Commandments of This Dispensation -No Security in Mammon -Slippery Treasures -Lazarus and the Rich Man -Take Heed and Beware of Covetousness -Chapter 4: Lessons in the Scriptures Concerning Wealth -Scriptural Description of the Last Days -Scriptures about Idolatry and Wealth -Scriptures about Seeking Wealth and Forgetting God -Scriptures about Mammon, Inequality, and Divisiveness -Scriptural Evidence That the Lord Despises the Selfish Rich -Chapter 5: Persecuting the Poor -Wo unto the Rich Who Despise the Poor -They Rob the Poor -Building Personal Sanctuaries -Wealth-Seeking-Sin That Hinders and Destroys the Church -Ugliness of Inequality Contrasted with the Beautiful Work of Angels -Withholding from and Judging the Poor Harshly -Evil of the Age: Life for Money -A Curse on the Daughters of Zion -Blessings for Those Who Rescue the Poor -Poor of the Lord's People Shall Trust in Zion -Chapter 6: Consequences of Seeking Wealth and Persecuting the Poor -Loss of the Providences of