Witnesses of Christ's Resurrection

 54 So when this corruptible shall have put on
incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on
immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying
that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.
 55 O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy
victory?
 …57 But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ.

• We are close very close, to the spirit world
at the time of death. There are tender
feelings, spiritual communications really,
which may easily be lost if there is not a
spirit of reverence.
–At the funeral of his brother, General
Leon Claron Packer, he said: “I saw
Mother once since she passed
away.

Lucile Tate, Boyd K. Packer-A Watchman on the
Tower, p. 286
• I saw her as clearly as I see any of you.
There was nothing said. For a time I
didn’t understand why I had been
permitted to see her. And then president
Kimball told us in the temple that he had
seen his father…whom he knew had
come to say that he approved of what was
happening to his son. Then I knew why
my mother had come. It was to say she
approved of my life. She was glorious, as
others have been who have come to visit.

 1 MOREOVER, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel
which I preached unto you, which also ye have
received, and wherein ye stand;
 2 By which also ye are saved, if ye keep in memory
what I preached unto you, unless ye have believed in
vain.

 3 For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also
received, how that Christ died for our sins according to
the scriptures;
 4 And that he was buried, and that he rose again the
third day according to the scriptures:
 5 And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

 6 After that, he was seen of above five hundred
brethren at once; of whom the greater part remain
unto this present, but some are fallen asleep.
 7 After that, he was seen of James; then of all the
apostles.
 8 And last of all he was seen of me also, as of one born
out of due time.

 9 For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet
to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the
church of God.
 10 But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his
grace which was bestowed upon me was not in vain;
but I laboured more abundantly than they all: yet not I,
but the grace of God which was with me.

Witnesses of the Lord’s
Resurrection
• Other Women
• Two Disciples
• Simon Peter
• 10 of 11 Apostles
• 500+
• James
• 11 at Ascension
• Paul
• Matt.28:1-9
• Mark 16:12-13; Luke 24:13-32
• Luke 24:34; 1 Cor. 15:5
• Luke 24:36, John 20:19-24
• John 20:26-31; Mark 16:14
• John 21:1-14
• Matt. 28:16-20
• 1 Cor. 15:6
• 1 Cor. 15:7
• Acts 1:3-11; Mark 16:19; Luke 24:50-51
• 1 Cor. 9:1; 15:8

Oliver Cowdery- HC 2:194-198
• ...it is necessary that you receive a testimony from
heaven for yourselves; so that you can bear
testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon, and
that you have seen the face of God. That is more
than the testimony an angel... Never cease striving
until you have seen God face to face. Strengthen
your faith: cast off your doubts, your sins, and all
your unbelief; and nothing can prevent you from
coming to God. Your ordination is not complete
till God has laid His hands upon you.

George Q. Cannnon -Deseret
Weekly, 6 October 1896, in
Gospel Truth, 1:134
•
• I know God lives. I know Jesus lives; for I
have seen Him.

Hugh B. Brown, CR April 1967
• We bear witness to these New Testament insights,
the newest of which is His present touch. To be in
touch with Christ means today what it meant to
John and Peter and Paul: to see, to receive, and to
prize the actual ministrations. We witness that His
voice, His person, has been manifested today in
our times…Union and communion—real kinship
are the sharing of all levels of experience.

David O. Mckay, CR 1968
• My testimony of the risen Lord is as real as
Tomas. I know He lives.

Harold B. Lee - MIA Conference, 29 June
1969 as cited in Living Prophets For A Living
Church, p.119
•
• I know that this is the Lord’s work . I know
that Jesus Christ lives and that He is closer
to this Church and appears more often in
Holy places than any of us realize excepting
sometimes to those to whom he makes
personal appearances.

• President Spencer W. Kimball, while serving as
acting President of the Council of the Twelve
Apostles, in the April Conference of 1970,
welcomed newly called Elder Boyd K. Packer as
an apostle and said:
• “May I extend to Elder Boyd K. Packer a warm
welcome personally
• and for the quorum of the Twelve Apostles. We
have watched him grow since
• his first days as an Assistant to this day of highest
call. Here he will find true
• fraternity in its highest reach.”

Elder Boyd K. Packer
CR, Oct. 1970, p. 122
• Six months later in the October 1970 Conference,
Elder Packer said while bearing his testimony:
•
• “I come to you now as one of the Twelve, each
ordained as a special witness.
• I affirm to you that I have that witness. I know
that God lives, that Jesus is
• the Christ. I know that though the world “seeth
him not, neither knoweth him;
• that he lives.”

Boyd K. Packer - Eternal Marriage, BYU
Speeches of the Year, 14 April 1970, p. 2 (5
Days after his ordination on 9 April 1970)
• I come to you this morning from an
experience! A testing that I am sure one
would not want to experience more than
once in a lifetime... I know for sure that
Jesus is the Christ.

• Personal witness
• Now, I wonder with you why one such as I should
be called to the holy apostleship. There are so
many qualifications that I lack. There is so much
in my effort to serve that is wanting. As I have
pondered on it, I have come to only one single
thing, one qualification in which there may be
cause, and that is, I have that witness.
• I declare to you that I know that Jesus is the
Christ. I know that he lives. He was born in the
meridian of time. He taught his people, was tried,
was crucified. He rose on the third day. He was
the first fruits of the resurrection. He has a body
of flesh and bone. Of this I bear testimony. Of
him I am a witness. In the name of Jesus Christ.
Amen.
• CR, April 71, p. 125

• I thank God for a church where you, our little
children, are precious above all things. I thank
God for our Savior who suffered the little children
to come unto him.
• You sang these words, just a few minutes ago:
• “I think when I read that sweet story of old.
• When Jesus was here among men.
• How he called little children like lambs to his fold.
• I should like to have been with him then.
• “I wish that his hands had been placed on my
head,
• That his arms had been thrown around me,
• That I might have seen his kind look when he said,
• ‘Let the little ones come unto me.’”
• -Sing with Me. No. B-59

Boyd K. Packer, CR 1973
• My little brothers and sisters, my little
children, I know something of how it feels
to have his hands put upon you to call you
to his service.

David B. Haight, BYU Speeches,
1977
• I had the opportunity to be all alone in that
upper room of the temple, to get onto my
knees and to pour out my heart and soul to
Heavenly Father. I had an event happen to
me at that time that I may witness and
testify to you that Jesus is the Christ, the
Son of God, that He lives—that He lives—
that He is Real.

Marion G. Romney, CR Oct.
1978
• I want to leave you with my witness. I know
as I live that Jesus lives. I shall not know
this better in the not-too-distant future when
I shall stand before the Lord to give an
account of my work in mortality.

James E. Faust, CR Oct. 1978
• I understand that the chief requirement for
the holy apostleship is to be a personal
witness of Jesus Christ. Perhaps on that
basis alone, I can qualify.

Boyd K. Packer-CR April 1978,
p. 72
• I said that there was a question that could not be
taken lightly nor answered at all without the
prompting of the Spirit. I have not asked that
question of others, but I have heard them answer
it- but not when they were asked...I have heard
one of my brethren declare, ‘I know from
experiences too sacred to relate, that Jesus is the
Christ.’ I have heard another testify: ‘I know that
God lives; I know that the Lord lives; and more
than that, I know the Lord.’

Spencer W. Kimball - CR April
1978, p. 72
• I know that God lives. I know Jesus Christ
lives, said John Taylor, my predecessor,
“‘for I have seen’” . I bear testimony to you
brethren in the name of Jesus Christ Amen.

Ezra Taft Benson
Dec. 1980 New Era
• There is no truth or fact of which I am more
assured, or to know better by personal
experience, than the truth of the literal
resurrection of our Lord.

Elder Boyd K. Packer, CR Apr.
1980
• We do not talk of those sacred interviews
that qualify the servants of the Lord to bear
witness of Him, for we have been
commanded not to do so.

Bruce R. McConkie- CR April
1985 p.12
• ...This I know of myself independent of any
other person. I am one of His witnesses, and
in a coming day, I shall feel the nail marks
in His hands and His feet and shall wet His
feet with my tears. But I shall not know any
better then than I know now that He is
God’s Almighty Son, that He is our Savior
and Redeemer...

• 19 If in this life only we have hope in
Christ, we are of all men most miserable.
• 20 But now is Christ risen from the dead,
and become the firstfruits of them that slept.
• 21 For since by man came death, by man
came also the resurrection of the dead.
• 22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
shall all be made alive.
• 23 But every man in his own order: Christ
the firstfruits; afterward they that are
Christ's at his coming. (1 Cor. 15)

The Father Raised up the Son
(Acts 2:24; Acts 2:32, 3:15,26; 4:10; 5:30;
10:40; Acts 13:30,33,34,37; Romans 4:24;
8:11; 10:9; 1 Cor. 6:14; 15:15; Gal. 1:1)

• 15 Jesus saith unto her, Woman, why weepest
thou? whom seekest thou? She, supposing him
to be the gardener, saith unto him, Sir, if thou
have borne him hence, tell me where thou hast
laid him, and I will take him away.
• 16 Jesus saith unto her, Mary. She turned
herself, and saith unto him, Rabboni; which is
to say, Master.
• 17 Jesus saith unto her, Touch me not; for I
am not yet ascended to my Father: but go to
my brethren, and say unto them, I ascend unto
my Father, and your Father; and to my God,
and your God.
• 18 Mary Magdalene came and told the
disciples that she had seen the Lord, and that
he had spoken these things unto her. (John
20:1-18)

1 Corinthians 15
• 29 Else what shall they do which are
baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at
all? why are they then baptized for the
dead?

Baptism for the Dead
• When President Wilford Woodruff
dedicated the Salt Lake Temple in 1893, he
prayed for the Lord to help us as we do
family history work. Read the following
excerpt from his dedicatory prayer:

• “We praise thee that our fathers, from last to
first, from now back to the beginning, can
be united with us in indissoluble links,
welded by the holy Priesthood. . . . Wilt
thou also permit holy messengers to visit us

• . . . and make known unto us with regard to
the work we should perform in behalf of our
dead. And . . . furthermore, we ask thee to
open before [us] new avenues of
information, and place in [our] hands the
records of the past, that [our] work may not
only be correct but complete also” (in James
H. Anderson, “The Salt Lake Temple,”
Contributor, Apr. 1893, 296).

Bridging the Gulf
• From that time forth this gulf is bridged so that the
captives, after they have paid the full penalty of
their misdeeds, satisfied justice, and have accepted
the gospel of Christ, having the ordinances
attended to in their behalf by their living relatives
or friends, receive the passport that entitles them
to cross the gulf. (DS 2:158.)
• After spirits in prison accept the gospel and the
ordinances performed for them in the temples,
they may prepare themselves to leave the spirit
prison and dwell in paradise. (Gospel Principles,
1979, p. 280.)

Logan Temple Elder Ballard
• Elder Melvin J. Ballard told of an incident from his
boyhood in the late 1800s:
• “I recall an incident in my own father’s experience.
How we looked forward to the completion of the
Logan Temple [in 1884]. It was about to be
dedicated. My father had labored on that house from
its very beginning and my earliest recollection was
carrying his dinner each day as he brought the rock
down from the quarry.

• How we looked forward to that great event! I
remember how in the meantime father made every
effort to obtain all the data and information he could
concerning his relatives. It was the theme of his
prayer night and morning that the Lord would open
the way whereby he could get information
concerning his dead.

• “The day before the dedication while [he was]
writing recommends to the members of his ward
who were to be present at the first service, two
elderly gentlemen walked down the streets of
Logan, approached my two younger sisters, and,
coming to the older one of the two placed in her
hands a newspaper and said:
• “‘Take this to your father. Give it to no one else. Go
quickly with it. Don’t lose it.’

• “The child responded and when she met her mother,
her mother wanted the paper. The child said, ‘No, I
must give it to father and no one else.’
• “She was admitted into the room and told her story.
We looked in vain for these travelers. They were not
to be seen. No one else saw them. Then we turned to
the paper. The newspaper, The Newbury Weekly
News, was printed in my father’s old English home,

• Thursday, May 15th, 1884, and reached our hands
May 18th, 1884, three days after its publication. We
were astonished, for by no earthly means could it
have reached us, so that our curiosity increased as
we examined it. Then we discovered one page
devoted to the writings of a reporter of the paper,
who had gone on his vacation, and among other
places had visited an old cemetery. The curious
inscriptions led him to write what he found on the
tombstones, including the verses.

• He also added the names, date of birth, death, etc.,
filling nearly an entire page.
• “It was the old cemetery where the Ballard family
had been buried for generations and very many of
my father’s immediate relatives and other intimate
friends were mentioned.

• “When the matter was presented to President Merrill
of the Logan Temple he said, ‘You are authorized to
do the work for those because you received it
through messengers of the Lord.’
• “There is no doubt but that the dead who had
received the Gospel in the spirit world had put it into
the heart of that reporter to write these things, and
thus the way was prepared for my father to obtain
the information he sought” ( Three Degrees of
Glory, 30–32).

Logan Baptismal Font
• “Elder Ballard sat at our baptismal font [in the
Logan Utah Temple] one Saturday while nearly a
thousand baptisms were performed for the dead. As
he sat there, he contemplated on how great the
temple ceremonies were, and how we are bringing
special blessings to the living and the dead. His
thoughts turned to the spirit world, and he wondered
if the people there would accept the work we were
doing for them.

• “Brother Ballard said: ‘All at once a vision opened
to me, and I beheld a great congregation of people
gathered in the east end of the font room. One by
one, as each name was baptized for, one of these
people climbed a stairway over the font to the west
end of the room. Not one soul was missing, but there
was a person for every one of the thousand names
done that day.’

• “Brother Ballard said that he had never seen such
happy people in all his life, and the whole
congregation rejoiced at what was [being] done for
them.
• “For the rest of his life, Apostle Ballard preached to
the Church in all his travels, that the work we do in
the temples is accepted, and that the people
themselves are permitted to attend and receive the
blessings personally” (Nolan Porter Olsen, Logan
Temple: The First 100 Years [1978], 170).

Gratitude in the resurrection
• Concerning the work of the dead, the prophet
Joseph Smith said, that in the resurrection those
who had been worked for would fall at the feet of
those who had done their work, kiss their feet.
Embrace their knees and manifest the most
exquisite gratitude. I believe our youth will rescue
an entire generation. (WW - CR, 1898; as quoted
by Vaughn J. Featherstone - En. 11- 87)

Crossing the Veil
• Bishop Roskelley, of Smithfield, Cache
Valley: On one occasion he was suddenly
taken very sick — near to death’s door.
While he lay in this condition, President
Peter Maughan, who was dead, came to
him and said: “Brother Roskelley, we
held a council on the other side of the
veil. I have had a great deal to do, and I
have the privilege of coming here to
appoint one man to come and help. I
have three names give to me in council,
and you are one of them. I want to
inquire into your circumstances.”

• The Bishop told him what he had to do, and they
conversed together as one man would converse
with another. President Maughan then said to
him: “I think I will not call you. I think you are
wanted here more than perhaps one of the others.
• Bishop Roskelley got well from that hour. Very
soon after, the second man was taken sick...by and
by this man recovered, and on meeting Brother
Rosekelley , he said “Brother Maughan came to
me the other night and told me he was sent to call
one man from the ward,” and he named two men
as had been done to Brother Rosekelley. A few
days afterwards the third man was taken sick and
died. (The Discourses of Wilford Woodruff, pp.
290-91.)

Returning Spirits Are Allowed to
Smile and Laugh-•
• While working with Heber C. Kimball in the
Endowment house Mary was told, “Sister
Lightner, you will see Joseph before you die.”
sometime between mid 1868, when Heber died
and 1905, when she told the story, Mary had a
spiritual experience she felt fulfilled this
prophecy. She was sitting on her porch humming a
pioneer hymn “All is Well”, and musing: suddenly
I saw just outside the door three men. They stood
about two feet from the ground. These men were
the prophet Joseph, his brother Hyrum and Heber
C. Kimball.

• Joseph stood in the middle with an arm around
each of their shoulders. They were bowing and
smiling at me.. Now I was looking into those clear
blue penetrating eyes as I had done years ago
when he had answered my many questions about
the gospel...I looked around, Pinched my arm to
see if I was dreaming. As they were still smiling
and bowing... thought I would shake hands with
them. They saw my confusion and understood it
and laughed, and I thought brother Kimball would
kill himself laughing. I had no fear trembling with
joy, I arose took a step forward and extended my
hand, they began fading away as the going down
of the sun...(In Sacred Loneliness, Todd Compton,
p. 227)

The Spirit World
(D&C 138;1 Peter 3:18-19, 4:6
Gen. 25:8,25:17,35:29,49:33)
General Conditions of the Spirit World

Naked in Death
(Wilford Woodruff’s Journal, 8:100)
• President Taylor said when we go to the
spirit world we go naked as we came into
the world, and if we got the clothing we
shall be dependent on somebody for it as we
were when born in the flesh. So if we get a
mansion in our fathers kingdom we shall be
dependent upon him.

Memory Will Be Quickened
(George Q. Cannon Stated That Once the Spirit Has
Departed This Mortal Tabernacle the Memory Will Be
Quickened-
• Memory will be quickened to a wonderful extent.
Every deed that we have done will be brought to
our recollection. Every acquaintance made will be
remembered. There will be no scenes or incidents
in our lives that will be forgotten by us in the
world to come...our memories will stretch back to
the life we had before we came here, with the
associations we had with our Father and God and
with those bright spirits that stand around His
throne and with the righteous and Holy ones. Deseret
Weekly, Vol. 38, April 7, 1889, P.677; Moses 7:63-64)

Jedediah M. Grant’s
Visit to the World of Spirits…
• I went to see him (Brother Jedediah M. Grant) one
day last week, and he reached out his hand and
shook hands with me ... He said to me, "Brother
Heber, I have been into the spirit world two nights
in succession, and, of all the dreads that ever came
across me, the worst was to have to again return to
my body, though I had to do it. He would mention
one item after another and say, "Why it is just as
Brother Brigham says it is; it is just as
• he has told us many a time."

Beautiful Architecture
• That is a testimony as to the truth of what Brother
Brigham teaches us, and I know it is true, from
what little light I have...
• He also spoke of the buildings he saw there,
remarking that the lord gave Solomon wisdom and
poured gold and silver into his hands that he might
display his skill and ability, and said that the
temple erected by Solomon was much inferior to
the most ordinary buildings he saw in the spirit
world. "In regard to gardens," says Brother Grant,

Gardens and Flowers…
• "I have seen good gardens on this earth, but I
never saw any to compare with those that were
there; I saw flowers of numerous kinds, and some
with fifty to a hundred different colored flowers
growing upon one stalk." We have many kinds of
flowers on the earth, and I suppose those very
articles came from heaven, or they would not be
here. (JD 4:135-36, President Heber C. Kimball
was speaking at the funeral services of President
Jedediah M. Grant.)

The Grandeur of Paradise
• What we do here is so vital, but is actually a
preparation for our labors in paradise in the
spirit world. The scope in that spirit world is
ten times as large as are the demographics
of this world. It is though a place of peace a
place of intense devotion... (An Evening
with a General Authority-Elder Neil A.
Maxwell, Feb. 2, 2001, p.7)

Satan’s Power Ceases
• Satan has power here over us to a certain extent.
He can afflict us ; he can tempt us; he can annoy
us in many ways. These are the consequences of
the fall and for a wise purpose belong to our
probation here in the flesh. But if we listen to the
Lord, if we strive to keep his commandments, if
we seek to be governed by His spirit, when death
comes, Satan’s power ceases. (Sept. 1, 1885, JI 20:264,
Compiled by Jerreld L. Newquist, Gospel Truth Vol. 1, p.77 (Jedediah
M. Grant, JD,4:133)

Satan’s Power Ceases
• He can no more afflict or torment of tempt or
annoy those who are thus faithful. His power
over them ceases forever. But not so for those who
disobey God, who keep not His commandments,
who yield to the power of the spirit of Satan. They
are his servants; they are under his influence . He
takes possession of them when they pass from this
mortal existence, and they experience the
torments of hell.
But when the spirit is unlocked from the body it is free from the power
of death and Satan....

Where is the Spirit world?
• There is a veil drawn between them and us.
There is a temporal world and a spiritual
world on this same sphere. Brigham Young,
JD 3:368-9, Ezra Taft Benson, Come unto Christ,
p. 119; Discourses of Brigham Young, pp. 376-80;
Parley P. Pratt, Key to the Science of Theology, pp.
126-7; Joseph Smith HC 6:52,

They are not far from us…
• Ezra Taft Benson
• The spirit world is not far away. From the Lord's
point of view, it is all one great program on both
sides of the veil. Sometimes the veil between this
life and the life beyond becomes very thin. This I
know! Our loved ones who have passed on are not
far from us. One Church president asked, "Where
is the spirit world?" and then answered his own
question: "It is right here ... Do [spirits] go beyond
the boundaries of this organized earth? No, they
do not.

Where is the Spirit World?
• They are brought forth upon this earth, for the
express purpose of inhabiting it to all eternity." He
also said, "When the spirits leave their bodies they
are in the presence of our Father and God; they are
prepared then to see, hear and understand spiritual
things ... If the Lord would permit it, and it was
His will that it should be done, you could see all
the spirits that have departed from this world, as
plainly as you now see bodies with your natural
eyes." (Brigham Young, JD 3:369,368.)(Come
Unto Christ, p. II 9.)

Beauty of a resurrected body
• Nothing is more beautiful than a resurrected being. We
know that in the future, after we have passed through
this life, we will then have our wives and our children
with us. We will have our bodies glorified, made free
from every sickness and distress, and rendered most
beautiful. There is nothing more beautiful to look upon
than a resurrected man or woman. There is nothing
grander that I can imagine that a man can possess than
a resurrected body. There is no latter-day saint within
the sound of my voice but that certainly has this
prospect of coming forth in the morning of the first
resurrection and being glorified, exalted in the presence
of God, having the privilege of talking with our Father
as we talk to our earthly father. (LS - 5 Oct. 1900, CR,

Resurrected Beings Dwell in
Everlasting Burnings
• God himself dwells in eternal fire; flesh and blood
can not go there , for all corruption is devoured by
the fire . “Our God is a consuming fire”. When our
flesh is quickened by the spirit, there will be no
blood in this tabernacle. Some dwell in higher
glory than others...all men who are immortal dwell
in everlasting burnings...they must rise just as they
die; we can there hail our lovely infants with the
same glory--they differ in stature and size...p.62
• All your losses will be made up to you in the
resurrection provided you remain faithful
• (TPJS - )

Who Can Resurrect ?
• Those that have already passed through the
resurrection. Who have been resurrected in their
time and season by some person else, and have
been appointed to that authority...You have not
power to baptize yourselves neither have you
power to resurrect yourselves...(JD - Brigham
Young, vol. 6 p. 275)
•

Resurrection Is an Ordinance
• We are in possession of all the ordinances that can
be administered in the flesh; But there are other
ordinances and administrations that must be
administered beyond this world. I know you
would ask what they are. I will mention one, we
have not neither can we receive here, the
ordinance and keys of the resurrection. They will
be given to those who have passed off this stage of
action and have received their bodies again,...They
will be ordained , by those who hold the keys of
resurrection, to go forth and resurrect the saints...
• (JD - Brigham young, vol. 15 p. 137).

Universal Resurrection
• Just as the creative and redemptive powers
of Christ extend to the earth and all things
thereon, as also to the infinite expanse of
worlds in immensity, so the power of the
resurrection is infinite in scope. Man, the
earth and all life thereon will come forth in
the resurrection. And resurrection applies to
and is going on in other worlds and
galaxies.(BRM -IE - Nov.1968, p.46-49)

Resurrected Bodies can walk
through walls
• Thus we know that resurrected beings, containing their
glory within themselves, can walk as mortals do on
earth; that they can converse and reason and teach as
they once did in mortality; that they can both withhold
and manifest their true identities; that they can pass
with their corporeal bodies through solid walls; that
they have bodies of flesh and bones that can be felt and
handled; that if need be, and at special times, they can
retain the scars and wounds of the flesh ; that they can
eat and digest food ; that they can vanish from mortal
eyes and transport themselves by means unknown to
us. (Mortal Messiah, Vol. ,p.285)
•

Wives Will Not Even Be Dissatisfied
With Their Husbands
• I think it has been taught by some that as we lay
our bodies down, they will so rise again in the
resurrection with all the impediments and
imperfections that they had here; and if a wife
does not love her husband in this state she can not
love him in the next. This is not so. Those who
attain to the blessings of the first or the celestial
resurrection will be pure and Holy, and perfect in
body. Every man and woman that reaches to this
unspeakable attainment will be as beautiful as the
angels that surround the throne of God.

• If you can by faithfulness in this life, obtain
the right to come up in the morning of the
resurrection, you need entertain no fears
that the wife will be dissatisfied with her
husband, or the husband with the
wife....And as we have born the image of
the earthly, we shall also bear the image of
the heavenly. (Brigham young, JD-10:24-
25, Oct. 6, 1862)

The Chain of the Resurrection
• In the millennium... The saints of god will have
the privilege of building their temples... And
officiate for their dead. Then we will see our
friends come up, and perhaps some that we have
been acquainted with here. If we ask who will
stand at the head of the resurrection in this last
dispensation , the answer is Joseph smith, junior,
the prophet of god. He is the man who will be
resurrected and receive the keys of the
resurrection

The Chain of the Resurrection
And he will seal his authority on others, and they
will hunt up their friends and resurrect them when
they shall have been officiated for, and bring them
up. And we will have revelations to know our
forefathers clear back to father Adam and mother
eve, and we will enter the temples of our god and
officiate for them. Then man will be sealed to man
until the chain is made perfect back to Adam, so
that there will be a perfect chain of priesthood
from Adam to the winding up scene. This will be
the work of the latter-day saints in the
millennium.(JD-15:139, BY, Aug. 24, 1872)

Resurrected Bodies Can Move Like
Lighting and Go Anywhere in Time or
Space
• The brightness and glory of the next apartment is
inexpressible. It is not encumbered with this clog
of dirt we are carrying around here so that when
we advance in years we have to be stumbling
along and be careful lest we fall down. We se our
youth frequently stubbing their toes and falling
down. But yonder how different! They move with
ease and like lightning. If we want to visit
Jerusalem, or this that or the other place--and I
presume that we will be permitted if we desire--
there we are looking at its streets.

• If we want to behold Jerusalem as it was in the
days of the Savior; or if we want to see the Garden
of Eden as it was when created, there we are, and
we see it as it existed spiritually, for it was created
first spiritually and then temporally, and
spiritually it still remains. And when there we may
behold the earth as at the dawn of creation, or we
may visit any city we please that exists upon its
surface. If we wish to understand how they are
living here on these western Islands, or in China,
we are there ; in fact we are like the light of the
morning,...

• this is what the faithful saints are coming to;
they will possess this power and if they
wish to visit different planets, they will be
there. If the Lord wish to visit His children
here, He is here.
• (Brigham Young, JD-14:230-231)

The Book of Life
• The book of life is the record of the acts of men as such
is written on their own bodies. It is the record engraven
on the very bones, sinews and flesh of the mortal body.
That is every thought word and deed has an effect on
the human body; All these leave their marks, marks
which can be read by him who is eternal as easy as the
words in a book can be read.
• By obedience to Telestial law men obtain telestial
bodies; Terrestrial law leads to terrestrial bodies; And
conformity to celestial law--because this law includes
the sanctifying power of the holy ghost--results in the
creation of a body which is clean, pure, and spotless, a
celestial body.
• (D&C 88:16-32, Mormon doctrine p.97).

• March 5, 1972 at BYU
• The body is a step up in the scales of
progression, not a step down. God is God
because He is gloriously embodied; and were
He not so, He would be less than God. The
privilege of the House of God is in effect to
have our physical beings brought into harmony
with our spirit personalities. And I have read,
but cannot quote perfectly, only paraphrase,
the testimony of President Lorenzo Snow to the
effect that this is the only way -

• I repeat, the only way - that the knowledge
locked in our spirit can become part of this
flesh; Thus occurs that inseparable union, that
blending, which makes possible celestial
resurrection. It is as if, if I may mix the figure,
we are given in the house of god a patriarchal
blessing to every organ and attribute and
power of our being, a blessing that is to be
fulfilled in this world and the next, keys and
insights that can enable us to live a godly life in
a very worldly world, protected-yes, even
insulated from the poisons and distortions that
are everywhere.
• That is the temple. And the glory of god, his
ultimate perfection, is in his house duplicated
in us provided we go susceptible.
• Truman G. Madsen, “house of glory”

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