Welcome back to part two with Brother Michael Cottle, Genesis 6 to 11, and Moses 8.

This talk is 20 years old now. Elder David Stone spoke about the Manhattan Temple.

It's only three paragraphs. Let me read this for you.

He says, my involvement with the building of the Manhattan Temple gave me the opportunity to be in the temple quite often prior to the dedication.

It was wonderful to sit in the celestial room and be there in perfect silence without a single sound to be heard coming from the busy New York streets outside.

And if you've ever been to New York City, it's anything but quiet.

How was it possible that the temple could be so reverently silent when the hustle and bustle

of the metropolis was just a few yards away? The answer was in the construction of the temple.

The temple was built within the walls and existing building,

and the inner walls of the temple were connected to the outer walls

at only a very few junction points.

That is how Zion, the temple, limited the effects of Babylon or the world outside.

There may be a lesson here for us. We can create the real Zion

among us by limiting the extent to which Babylon will influence our lives. Isn't that what

both of you have been saying, is pitched within, pitch without, I'm protecting my family and

myself from allowing things into my life and home.

Yet, how often on my phone, on my TV, do I just allow Babylon?

And I serve it tea and crumpets.

Yeah, offer a chair and let it sit down, right?

Yeah.

We call it entertainment.

I was thinking of a mic drop type moment in the Bible dictionary where it speaks of the home,

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