2. Heb. 11:5. 3. Moses 6:27, 8. 4. Ib. 7:13. 5. Ib. 7:18. Compare Acts 4:32, 34, 35; 4 Nephi 1:2, 3. 6. Moses 7:69. 7. Gen. 11:1-9. 8. Ether 1:33-37. 9. Orson Pratt, citing an unpublished revelation, says: "What is the name of God in the pure language? The answer says: 'Ahman.' What is the name of the Son of God? Answer, 'Son Ahman, the greatest of all the parts of God, excepting Ahman.' What is the name of men? 'Sons Ahman' is the answer."--Journal of Discourses, Vol. 2, p. 342. 10. Omni 1:21, 2; Mosiah 8:6-12; 28:17. See also Article Five. 11. Hist. Ch. Vol. 4, pp. 209, 210. Commenting upon that passage of scripture, "Others were tortured, not accepting deliverance, that they might obtain a better resurrection" (Heb. 11:35) the Prophet says: "Translation obtains deliverance from the tortures and sufferings of the body; but their existence will prolong as to the labors and toils of the ministry, before they can enter into so great a rest and glory. On the other hand those who were tortured not accepting deliverance, received an immediate rest from their labors." He also explains the difference between an angel and a ministering spirit--"the one a resurrected or translated body, with its spirit, ministering to embodied spirits; the other a disembodied spirit, visiting or ministering to disembodied spirits." . . . . Translated beings, "designed for future missions," "cannot enter into rest until they have undergone a change equivalent to death."--"The Mediation and Atonement." pp. 75, 76. 12. Moses 7:4. 13. Ib. v. 66. Compare D. and C. 61:4-6, 14-19. 14. Moses 7:26, 28. 15. Ib. vv. 29-31. 16. I Peter 3:18-20; 4:6. 17. Moses 7:48. 18. Ib. vv. 60, 61. 19. Moses 7:62-64. 20. I Cor. 15:51. 52. 21. D. and C. 84:99-102. ARTICLE SIXTEEN. Noah and the Deluge. Methuselah, Son of Promise.--God, having shown to Enoch the approaching utter destruction of Earth's wicked inhabitants, covenanted with the founder of the Sacred City that the repeopler of the devastated globe should be of his lineage. In order that this promise might not fail, Enoch's son, Methuselah, distinguished among men as the one who attained to the greatest age in mortality, [1] "was not taken" when Zion was translated, but remained to become the father of Lamech and grandfather of Noah. [2] Earth's Baptism.--The Deluge was Earth's baptism. Baptism symbolizes birth or creation. In a certain sense, our planet was "born of water and of the Spirit" at the very beginning. [3] In Noah's day, which was reminiscent of that beginning, it experienced a rebirth, "a washing of regeneration," typical of a spiritual and fiery immersion yet to come.