JEHOVAH AND HIS PREMORTAL MINISTRY Jesus Christ and

JEHOVAH AND HIS PREMORTAL MINISTRY Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel

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3 Doctrines What qualified Christ more than anyone else to be the Savior? What is Kolob? � Abraham 3: 1– 3

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior (4)

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior The great one (Abraham 3: 3) (4)

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior The great one (Abraham 3: 3) The Great I AM (D&C 29: 1) (4)

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior The great one (Abraham 3: 3) The Great I AM (D&C 29: 1) The first creation (Abraham 3: 3) (4)

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior The great one (Abraham 3: 3) The Great I AM (D&C 29: 1) The first creation (Abraham 3: 3) The Firstborn (D&C 93: 21) (4)

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior The great one (Abraham 3: 3) The Great I AM (D&C 29: 1) The first creation (Abraham The Firstborn (D&C 93: 21) 3: 3) Source of light for other stars and planets (Abraham 3: 6) (4)

Kolob: How is it a Symbol of the Savior? Kolob The Savior The great one (Abraham 3: 3) The Great I AM (D&C 29: 1) The first creation (Abraham The Firstborn (D&C 93: 21) 3: 3) Source of light for other stars Source of light for the and planets (Abraham 3: 6) immensity of space (D&C 88: 5 -13) (4)

3 Doctrines What qualified Christ more than anyone else to be the Savior? What is Kolob? � Abraham 3: 1– 3 How is time different in heaven? � Abraham 3: 4

One Thousand Years One day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 2 Peter 3: 8 • How long have you been away from God’s presence? • 1000 years (our time)=1 day (Lord’s time) • If you live 100 years on earth= 1/10 of one day with the Lord • 1/10 of 1 day = 2. 4 hours • Your age x 1. 694 = how many minutes you’ve been away from God’s presence • CAN YOU BE GOOD FOR 2 HOURS? (5)

The Abrahamic Covenant

What are the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant? GOD’S PROMISE SCRIPTURE REFERENCE Abraham 2: 6 Abraham 2: 9 Abraham 1: 18 Abraham 2: 10

What are the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant? GOD’S PROMISE SCRIPTURE REFERENCE Land Abraham 2: 6 Abraham 2: 9 Abraham 1: 18 Abraham 2: 10

What are the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant? GOD’S PROMISE SCRIPTURE REFERENCE Land Posterity Abraham 2: 6 Abraham 2: 9 Abraham 1: 18 Abraham 2: 10

What are the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant? GOD’S PROMISE SCRIPTURE REFERENCE Land Posterity Priesthood Abraham 2: 6 Abraham 2: 9 Abraham 1: 18 Abraham 2: 10

What are the promises of the Abrahamic Covenant? These are the PROMISES GOD’S PROMISE SCRIPTURE REFERENCE Land Abraham 2: 6 Posterity Abraham 2: 9 Priesthood Abraham 1: 18 Abraham 2: 10 “And ye. Exaltation shall be my people, and I will be your God. ” (Jeremiah 30: 22)

The test is not over…. “Although Satan and his followers have lost their opportunity to have a physical body, they are permitted to use their spirit powers to try to frustrate God’s plan. This provides the opposition necessary to test how mortals will use their freedom to choose. Satan’s most strenuous opposition is directed at whatever is most important to the Father’s plan. Satan seeks to discredit the Savior and divine authority, to nullify the effects of the Atonement, to counterfeit revelation, to lead people away from the truth, to contradict individual accountability, to confuse gender, to undermine marriage, and to discourage childbearing (especially by parents who will raise children in righteousness). ” Elder Oaks, “The Great Plan of

What is a birthright?

Foreordination T/F 1. Some people became ‘bad’ in the pre-earth life. 2. God knows what we will do before we do it. 3. All Priesthood holders were foreordained to be Priesthood holders. 4. We agreed to do the things we were foreordained to do. 5. Our birth time and location was based on our preearth life choices. 6. We chose our spouses in the Pre-Earth Life.

True/False Some people became ‘bad’ in the pre-earth life.

Elder Bruce R Mc. Conkie “When we come into mortality, we bring the talents, capacities, and abilities acquired in our prior existence. Mozart composed and published sonatas when but eight years of age because he was born with musical talent. Melchizedek came into this world with such faith and spiritual capacity that “when a child he feared God, and stopped the mouths of lions, and quenched the violence of fire. ” (JST, Gen. 14: 26. ) Cain, on the other hand, like Lucifer, was a liar from the beginning. ” Ensign, May 1974, p. 71

True/False God knows what we will do before we do it.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell “By reason of that surpassing knowledge, God reads the future; He knows what each of us will do under given conditions. His foreknowledge is based on intelligence and reason. He foresees the future as a state which naturally and surely will be. ” The Great Apostasy, p. 20. James E. Talmage, Quoted by Neal A. Maxwell, Things As They Really Are, p. 28)

True/False All Melchizedek Priesthood holders were foreordained to be Melchizedek Priesthood holders.

Joseph Smith “Every man who has a calling to minister to the inhabitants of the world was ordained to that very purpose in the grand council of heaven before this world was. ” Teachings of the Prophet Joseph Smith, p. 365. Alma 13: 2 -3 (cross-reference Jeremiah 1: 5 -6) “And those priests were ordained after the order of his Son … being called and prepared from the foundation of the world according to the foreknowledge of God. ”

True/False We agreed to do the things we were foreordained to do.

Elder Neal A. Maxwell “Orson Hyde taught, ‘It is not impossible that we signed the articles thereof with our own hands, which articles may be retained in the archives above to be presented to us when we rise from the dead…Our forgetfulness cannot alter the facts. ” (Journal of Discourses, 7: 314– 15. ) Hence, the degree of detail involved in the covenants and promises we participated in at that time may be a more highly customized thing than many of us surmise. ” Neal A. Maxwell, Brigham Young University 10 October 1978.

True/False Our birth time and location was based on our preearth life choices.

Elder Bruce R. Mc. Conkie “As a result of preexistent faithfulness, certain of the Father's children earned the right to receive preferential treatment during their mortal sojourn. Some who were noble and great were foreordained. Others merited birth into the house of Israel so they would be in a position to hear the word of truth before that same gift was given to others. ”

President David O Mc. Kay “Our place in this world would then be determined by our own advancement in the pre-mortal state, just as our place in our future existence will be determined by what we do here in mortality” Home Memories of President David O. Mc. Kay, 228– 30.

True/False We chose our spouses in the Pre-Earth Life.

“We have been counseled not to teach the idea of a ‘one and only. ’ The Church does not teach that we chose our companion or our parents during our pre-mortal existence. A successful date or marriage often depends more on being the right person than on finding the right person. ” Seminary Teachers Manual for O. T. p. 59

The Test of Life Abraham 3: 22 -25 “You may enjoy music, athletics, or be mechanically inclined, and someday you may work in a trade or a profession or in the arts. As important as such activities and occupations can be, they do not define who we are. First and foremost, we ar e spiritual beings. We are sons and daughters of God and the seed of Abraham” (“Becoming a Missionary, ” Ensign or Liahona, Nov. 2005, 47).

JEHOVAH AND HIS PREMORTAL MINISTRY Jesus Christ and the Everlasting Gospel