Foreordained Promised Land #song #america #latterdays #churchofjesuschristofflatterdaysaints

[Verse 1] There's beauty in foreign lands Each favored, by God, uniquely Still...America forever stands Divinely for rights of liberty Its destiny was foreordained In our Father's eternal plan Prophets of old foresaw it, too So preserved to one day expand [Pre-Chorus] Joseph's tribe was to become A fruitful bough by a well Whose branches would run over Bound in the everlasting Hills forever [Chorus] Foreordained, foreordained Set apart for this day To carry His light brightly lit Unto lands near and far away [Verse 2] Lehi, a prophet from the then wicked holy land Journeyed in the wilderness and then by sea With his family they fashioned a ship by hand And sailed where they could live righteously Oft God blessed them with prosperity And then, in pride, they went their own way To then cycle back with humility Finally to die off leaving their record for our day [Pre-Chorus] Too, Christopher Columbus was compelled much By the Holy Spirit to cross this deep vast ocean Who worked to gain the trust of Queen Isabella While being prepared by God for this destination [Chorus] Foreordained, foreordained Set apart for this day To carry His light brightly lit Unto lands near and far away [Verse 3] Then came the Pilgrims seeking a place To establish and protect religious freedom And thus many more came here to raise Their families as reformers freed from oppression Thus it was by divine intervention America was preserved for its destiny For the coming forth of the constitution Guaranteeing for all life, liberty [Chorus] Foreordained, foreordained Set apart for this day To carry His light brightly lit Unto lands near and far away [Verse 4] Here, where the everlasting gospel could flourish Restored for the Latter-Day, by Jesus Himself To act in authority with a prophet through which Lehi's records were given their story to tell That Jesus appeared to them after being crucified He taught them and they received the ordinances of the gospel They were a second witness that He had lived and died This, their promised land, was set apart to make this possible [Chorus] Foreordained, foreordained Set apart for this day To carry His light away Discerning and applying moral agency Restored for the Latter-Day Foreordained, foreordained Preparatory for the Lord Thoughts were from a talk by Elder Tanner https://x.com/PeacemakingSt/status/20... Genesis 49:22 Joseph is a fruitful bough, even a fruitful bough by a well; whose branches run over the wall: