Assessment on Unity and Division in the Restoration
By Chief Midegah
The Pattern of Unity Across Human Organizations
The Family Table: Within every family, each person has a place at the table. Despite differences in age, knowledge, understanding, and personality, children know they are equally welcome to sit and speak at their parents’ table. Unity exists within diversity.
The Community Council: Every household in a community is unique, with distinct views, personalities, and decisions. Yet despite these differences in knowledge and understanding, each home has an equal voice in the community council. Diversity of perspective strengthens the whole.
The Corporate Board: In business, every director, vice president, and board member brings unique perspectives. Different facilities and leaders may have varying approaches and decisions, yet they gather at one table where each person and division maintains a voice and place in leadership.
The Nation: Consider the United States, every state and political party is unique, with citizens holding many views, personalities, and decisions. Despite these fundamental differences, they unite as one nation to achieve common goals.
The Contradiction in the Restoration
However, when we examine the Restoration movement, we find a troubling contradiction. All groups claim the same divine authority and maintain leadership tables with people from various backgrounds. Yet unlike every other successful organization, each group demands exclusive control, insisting the table have only one chair.
This represents a fundamental departure from God’s pattern of unity within diversity. When any group claims the entire table and room for themselves, it reveals:
The absence of true priesthood power: Authentic divine authority would recognize and embrace the contributions of all faithful servants.
The presence of spiritual greed: The desire to possess all authority mirrors the devil’s temptation to Christ—”serve me and you get it all”
The Spiritual Principle
Division serves the adversary’s purposes. When we are divided, we inadvertently serve the forces of opposition. When we unite and move as one, maintaining our individual gifts while working toward common divine purposes, we serve God and build Zion.
The restoration’s fragmentation stands as evidence that something fundamental has been lost: the understanding that God’s kingdom operates through unity of purpose, not uniformity of organization. True priesthood power would manifest in cooperation, not competition for exclusive authority.
The Ultimate Consequence: Betrayal of Sacred Purpose
The pattern is clear across all human endeavors: strength comes through unity that honors diversity. Only in the Restoration do we see this principle inverted, with each group claiming sole legitimacy. This inversion itself testifies to the need for a return to God’s way of building His kingdom, through many voices at one table, not one voice claiming all tables.
But the deepest tragedy lies in what this division ultimately betrays: the very purpose of the priesthood itself.
The Priesthood’s Sacred Duty
The priesthood exists to promote and protect the strength of women, the mothers who are the vessels of future generations. Every woman carries within her the potential for unborn generations of Zion. When priesthood holders engage in division rather than unity, they become unwitting instruments of the adversary, preventing the very kingdom they claim to serve.
Consider the weight of this responsibility: our mothers gave us life, raised us, and trusted us with sacred authority. That authority was never meant to be wielded in competition with our brothers, but in protection of our sisters and the generations they would bear. When we divide the restoration community through our insistence on exclusive control, we betray this sacred trust.
The Male-Caused Crisis
This crisis is entirely of male creation. While claiming divine authority, priesthood holders have allowed ego and pride to override their fundamental duty. They have forgotten that they are accountable not only to God, but to the women whose strength they were ordained to protect. The unborn generations of Zion remain delayed, not by divine will, but by masculine division.
If these men truly listened to the hearts of their mothers, wives, and daughters, Zion would already be built. Instead, they cling to single chairs at exclusive tables, demanding all others leave the room.
The Kingdom’s Judgment
The Kingdom and its authority is here, and it has observed the branches of the restoration. The verdict is sobering: these groups have become more divisive than any working of the devil. The priesthood, given the power and responsibility to complete the sacred task of building Zion and protecting mankind, has instead become destructive through its inability to overcome male ego and pride.
In their division, they have forgotten they were called to be an assembly first—many children of one parent, many chairs at one table. Their fragmentation condemns them, for they possess the very tools needed to build the kingdom yet refuse to use them in unity.
Final Condemnation
As instruments of division rather than unity, these competing priesthood factions are counted among the tares. They have become the very opposition they claim to fight against, unknowingly and willingly serving the adversary’s purposes while believing themselves to be God’s chosen servants.
The unborn generations of Zion wait still, delayed not by divine timing, but by the male pride that refuses to share the table where the work of building the kingdom must be done together.