Israel is synonymous with Promised Land, Holy Land, and Palestine. Other nations surround Israel, yet her boundaries are distinct. No one would claim that the promises associated with Israel are inferred to apply to adjoining or distant lands. Only Israel’s promises are FOR ISRAEL, not Syria, Iraq, Jordan, or Egypt.
For some reason, however, modelers assume the land promises of Nephi and Jared may be applied ANYWHERE. In one breath, they claimed Mexico and Guatemala as Book of Mormon lands, and in the next, they claimed the glory of the United States of America.
When God gives a land to someone with promises, that land and those promises are sacred. Pitty, the man who stretches forth his hand and seeks to re-align those. Pitty is the man who is blinded and cares more about notoriety than the all-piercing eye.
With two hundred years of hindsight, can you modelers not feel the pain of God? Is there the slightest remorse for having moved the field of geography away from her promises and, contrary to the United States, the New Jerusalem?
And blessed are the Gentiles (Mormons) they of whom the prophet has written for behold if it so be that they shall repent and FIGHT NOT AGAINST ZION (US government, its Declaration and Constitution) and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church (Notoriety) they shall be saved. (2 Nephi 6:12)
Presumptuous? FOUR SEAS bordered the Jaredite Land Northward, and THREE SEAS bordered the Land Southward. The promises apply there, not Missouri, Mexico, or Guatemala.
All land prophecies were fulfilled with Colonial America by her INSPIRED Declaration, Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Which favors by God have been applied since that time to lands under her government.
Everything Joseph did was contrary to the New Jerusalem. Thus, with each sin, God pushed his followers off Book of Mormon lands and out of the New Jerusalem, the United States of America. They even called America “Babylon”:
DEPARTURE OF THE SAINTS FROM THE UNITED STATES URGED
“We do not want one saint to be left in the United States after that time,” said the message. “Let every branch,” he continued, “in the east, west, north and south be determined to flee out of ‘BABYLON,’ either by land or sea, as soon as then.” (B. H. Roberts, A Comprehensive History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1930, vol. 3, p. 25)
Brethren awake!—be determined to get out from this EVIL NATION next spring. We do not want the saints to be left in the United States after that time. Let every branch in the east, west, north, and south, be determined to flee out of BABYLON, either by land or by sea, as soon as then. Judgment is at the door; and it will be easier to go now, than to wait until it comes. (Joseph Smith, History of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, vol. 7, p. 516)
TEMPLE COVENANT PUTS MORMON CHURCH BEFORE THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT
We were then made to swear “To obey the laws of the Mormon Church and all they enjoin, in preference to those of the United States” [She describes the penalty and sign that accompany this grip.] (Mrs. G.S.R., “Lifting the Vail(sic): The Endowment House Mysteries Fully Exposed,” Salt Lake Daily Tribune, 28 September 1879).