2 Ne 8:3 for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light for the people

The administration of God’s kingdom will take place from the Zion on the American Continent. It will be from this New Jerusalem that the law and the judgments of the Lord will be given, ‘for out of Zion shall go forth the law, and the word of the lord from Jerusalem’ (Isa 2:3).

Orson Pratt

“We also read that out of Zion shall go forth the law. We also read that Zion is to become so glorious, in times to come, that the nations that are afar will say to one another, ‘Surely Zion is the City of our God, for the Lord is there; his power is there, his glory is there,’ etc. Now if there be a time, in the history of the latter-day Zion, that the power of God will be made manifest in their midst, so as to stir up the nations afar off, causing them to exclaim that Zion is truly the City of God; her laws are divine; let us become subject to her laws; do you suppose that we, with our present organization, after perfecting it as much as we can expect to, could be ready and prepared to send forth laws to foreign nations for their government? No. There would then be persons ordained and set apart for various purposes, not to bestow any new Priesthood, for it is all included in the everlasting and eternal Priesthood, after the order of the Son of God; but to set apart persons already holding the Priesthood in the great organization; to receive divine laws; or, in other words, to regulate the nations, according to the laws of Zion; that they may understand her laws, and know what the divine government is, by which they are to be governed; in other words, ministers or plenipotentiaries are to be sent forth to transact business among all nations and peoples who willingly shall become subject to the laws of Zion. As to the rebellious nations, there will be none left alive. As it is written, ‘that nation or kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish.’ ‘Those nations shall be utterly wasted away;’ consequently, the nations left, who are not totally destroyed will be anxious to be governed by the laws of Zion. Hence there will be an organization before the winding-up scene that will control the nations politically, giving them the privilege of remaining in their own land if they choose to do so, but subject to the laws of Zion.” (Journal of Discourses, vol 19, May 20, 1877, p.14)