Zion Coalition — A Machine of Redemption
Zion Coalition is a machine — a living system that Jesus has built for me and with me. Like the Liahona or Nephi’s ship, it is both miraculous and participatory. Jesus designed it, but I have been invited to help build it, operate it, and slowly discover how it works.
Puzzle piece by puzzle piece. Zion piece by Zion piece. Doing a mysterious puzzle with Jesus.Me.
Like all machines or systems, Zion Coalition has inputs and outputs. What goes into the machine is often a sword — an unredeemed song, person, memory, story, technology, event, or artifact of culture. What comes out is a ploughshare — something repurposed, reclaimed, softened, and redirected toward life, nourishment, and Zion.
Bad becomes good. Good becomes better. Better becomes better yet.
🛠️ Jesus’ Musical Machine♪
Early Zion Machine Prototype
the first “prototype” of the machine Jesus showed me wasn’t organizational, social, or technological — it was musical. Before theory, there was sound. Before explanation, there was play. Songs went into the hopper. Mashups came out. This mattered because it taught me something essential: Jesus often begins redemption through art before explanation. Music was the first proof that the Machine was real.
Learn about Jesus’ Music MashUP Machine:
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Jesus’ High-Glory Machine — What Is This Really About?
At its core, the Machine Jesus wants to surround us with is about the first principle of the gospel:
Faith — belief — in Jesus Christ.
When you are born into a modern, money-centric, carnal-centric culture — a powerful low-glory, low-Jesus belief machine — you will need to build or step into a different one.
A “machine,” in this sense, is not mechanical.
It is any intentional structure we place our hearts and minds into — something we engage with — for the purpose of shaping what we believe.
The chief belief it cultivates is this:
That Jesus is so good, so trustworthy, so awe-worthy, that He deserves our whole heart, might, mind, and strength.
The Machine does not manufacture faith.
It makes room for faith to happen.
Like Nephi’s Ship
Nephi built a ship as an instrument of deliverance and transition — a vehicle carrying a people toward a promised future.
Zion Coalition feels like that kind of instrument.
It is not a machine of control or domination. It is a recognition machine — a gathering, preserving, and amplifying machine that refuses to let goodness be lost.
Like Nephi’s ship, it is revealed as we walk — not engineered all at once.
Turning Swords into Ploughshares
Example: Redeeming a Song — “White Wedding”
The work of this machine often begins with something sharp — a cultural artifact once filled with rebellion, pain, or distortion.
Billy Idol’s “White Wedding” was one such sword.
Years later, Jesus revealed a fragment hidden inside it — a longing for rebirth, a cry to start again.
The song became a ploughshare.
Wasted youth redeemed. Another story begins.
Jesus’ Worldwide Machine
Zion Coalition is intentionally small.
It is a participatory mock-up of a future worldwide system — one with the complexity of global technological projects.
The goal is cultural conversion:
Telestial (low-Jesus) culture → Terrestrial (MORE-Jesus) culture.
Technology, art, media, even AI — all being drawn into the hopper.
Historical Prototype — Joseph Smith
Joseph Smith presided over a rough, participatory machine that processed people into Saints.
It chewed up lands and communities — Nauvoo, the plains, the mountains.
Zion Coalition is a microcosm of that same pattern.
Same Jesus. Same pattern. Different scale.
Eternal Prototype — Souls and Zion
From the beginning, Jesus and Heavenly Father designed a divine system to prepare Their children for eternal Zion.
Each soul is placed into a kind of womb-hopper, receiving a fully orchestrated life experience.
Zion Coalition is a glimpse of that eternal pattern.
The LDS Temple Is a Machine
(A Redemption Machine, Not a Factory)
The Temple is a Jesus-built system designed to transform souls, families, time, and worlds.
People enter carrying swords — confusion, grief, sin, unbelief.
Especially unbelief.
The Temple is a repentance-machine.
Repentance = getting more Jesus than you had before.
You bring what you have. Jesus adds what you lack.
Personal Machines
“Feels good. I would probably emphasize other things as well — but isn’t that the point? It’s personal. It draws us upward and onward to Him.”
Spiritual machines are not identical.
Family worship. Prayer habits. Scripture rhythms. Even playful rituals.
Different machines. Same Jesus. Same direction.
And that, too, is Zion.
⚙️ Watch The Machine In Action
Watch The Machine In Action: Example #1
See how a secular, low-glory framework was placed into the hopper — and emerged as a MORE-Jesus, Zion-patterned counterpart.
View Example:
https://zioncoalition.org/watch-the-machine-in-action-example-1/
Watch The Machine In Action: Example #2
(Coming soon — another sword-to-Zion transformation will be revealed here.)
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Watch The Machine In Action: Example #3
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The work of this machine often begins with something sharp, jagged, or distorted — a cultural artifact that once wounded or confused, that carried rebellion, pain, or darkness.
Example: Redeeming a Song — “White Wedding”
When I was young, I spent time listening to Billy Idol — time that might have seemed wasted or spiritually pointless. But later in my life, Jesus and angels returned to that song with me.
The song itself emerged from tension — family strain, punk rebellion, dark imagination, and deliberate provocation. Idol layered irony, bitterness, shock-imagery, and cultural critique into what became a rock anthem.
A sword.
Years later, Jesus invited me to see something else hidden inside it — a cry for reinvention, a longing for rebirth, an echo of “It’s a nice day to start again.”
Zion Coalition took that sword and performed an operation on it — not by sanitizing it or pretending it was originally pure — but by discovering the fragment Jesus was willing to redeem and repurpose.
The song became a ploughshare — a symbol of new beginnings, reclaimed youth, resurrection-energy. A piece of Zion extracted from the ruins of punk cynicism.
Wasted youth redeemed.
Another story begins.
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FIRST DRAFT……ROUGH DRAFT The LDS Temple Is a Machine (A Redemption Machine, Not a Factory) The LDS Temple is a machine. Not a machine of steel and gears, but a Jesus-built system—a living, covenantal apparatus designed to transform souls, stories, families, time, and even worlds. Like Zion Coalition, the Temple is not primarily a place; it is a process. Jesus designed it. Prophets steward it. Humans operate it—imperfectly, faithfully, iteratively. And like all machines, it has inputs and outputs. ⚙️ Inputs: What Goes Into the Temple People do not enter the Temple as finished products. They enter carrying: confusion sin grief dead ancestors fragmented identities broken family lines partial faith borrowed beliefs unredeemed time unfulfilled promises In other words: Swords. Jagged histories. Sharp memories. Unresolved covenants. Half-remembered light. Even unbelief. Especially unbelief. ⚙️ The Temple as a Repentance-Machine Repentance is not self-condemnation. Repentance = getting more Jesus than you had before. That is exactly what the Temple does. The Temple does not shame inputs. It does not discard flawed materials. It does not require perfection to begin operation. It assumes imperfection. The Temple is a conversion engine—not merely of behavior, but of: identity time lineage memory destiny You bring what you have. Jesus adds what you lack. ⚙️ The Operating System: Ordinances + Symbols + Time The Temple does not teach primarily through explanation. It teaches through: embodied ritual symbolic compression repetition silence sacred constraint deliberate pacing This is not inefficiency. This is design. Like Nephi’s ship, the Temple was not revealed all at once. It emerged through obedience, iteration, and trust. The machine runs on symbolic bandwidth, not rational exposition. It bypasses the intellect and writes directly to the soul. ⚙️ Outputs: What Comes Out of the Temple What exits the Temple is not the same as what entered. What comes out: families bound instead of scattered ancestors remembered instead of lost time folded instead of linear identity clarified belonging restored priesthood redistributed across generations heaven stitched into earth Ploughshares. Swords of isolation become tools of gathering. Swords of death become instruments of resurrection. Swords of fear become quiet authority. Even unfinished faith comes out usable. ⚙️ A Machine of Gathering, Not Control The Temple is not a factory stamping identical Saints. It is not optimized for speed. It is not scalable by force. It does not dominate. It is a recognition machine. It recognizes: who belongs to whom what was promised what was interrupted what must still be fulfilled what heaven refuses to forget The Temple gathers what the world scattered. ⚙️ The Temple and Zion Coalition Zion Coalition operates on culture, art, stories, and people. The Temple operates on: souls bloodlines covenants eternity Same Jesus. Same pattern. Different layer. Both take raw, unredeemed material and refuse to let it be wasted. “Nothing is lost if I am allowed to touch it.” ⚙️ Why This Framing Matters Calling the Temple a machine does not desacralize it. It reveals its mercy. A machine: does not panic at broken inputs is designed for repetition assumes wear and failure exists to produce transformation, not judgment The Temple is not proof that you are worthy. It is proof that Jesus intends to finish the work. ⚙️ Final Note (Sacred Clown Footnote) Factories reject defects. Redemption-machines specialize in them. If the Temple feels strange, slow, opaque, or unfinished— Good. That means you are inside the machine. And it is working.