Moroni called up an image from the prophet Isaiah, who described the future holy city of God using the metaphor of an immovable tent, whose stakes will never be pulled up, nor any of its cords be broken (Isaiah 33:20). The expansion of God’s kingdom, which serves as a refuge from gathering storms, will indeed necessitate enlarging the tent of the family of God, lengthening its cords, and strengthening its stakes (this is the origin of the term “stakes” of the Church). Stakes must be strong to stabilize the whole tent, or the house of God (Isaiah 54:2).
Zion, the New Jerusalem, will be not the “center stake” but the “center place,” as the scriptures call it (D&C 57:3; emphasis added). The stakes are round about it, throughout the world, to strengthen the center place. Within the strengthened stakes and enlarged borders, the Saints will no more be confounded, and the Father’s covenants will all be fulfilled.