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In early Mormonism, God's Kingdom was thought of as an amalgamation between two distinct yet intimately related parts.

The first is the Spiritual Kingdom of God which is represented on earth by the Church of Christ.

This, Mormons believe, was described in the Book of Daniel 2: 44 – 45 as the stone " cut out of the mountain without hands " that will roll forth to fill the whole earth.

In Daniel, this kingdom was never to " be destroyed ; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.

" However, in conjunction with this Spiritual Kingdom, Joseph Smith, Jr. and other early Latter Day Saint leaders believed that Jesus would establish a Political Kingdom of God in the turbulent times leading up to His second coming.

God's Political Kingdom was to be centered around the Council of Fifty.