There is NO single work or text outside of the Book of Mormon that explicitly declares America to be the place of the New Jerusalem. Nobody outside of the LDS faith whose keystone is the Book of Mormon has ever considered that America will become the New Jerusalem promised to be established by the descendants of Joseph, son of Jacob/Israel. It’s interesting, then, that Prime Minister of Israel Netanyahu is devoting so much energy to make sure that America-whom Benjamin Netanyahu calls the modern day Rome-does not become the New Jerusalem.