The Rise and Fall of NauvooRoberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
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The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
Roberts, B. H. (Brigham Henry)
Latter Day Saints -- Illinois -- Nauvoo; Nauvoo (Ill.) -- History
These are they who are come unto Mount Zion, and unto the city of
the living God, the heavenly place, the holiest of all.
These are they who have come to an innumerable company of angels,
to the general assembly and church of Enoch, and of the first born.
These are they whose names are written in heaven, where God and
Christ are the judge of all.
These are they who are just men made perfect through Jesus the
mediator of the new covenant, who wrought out this perfect
atonement through the shedding of his own blood.
These are they whose bodies are celestial, whose glory is that of
the sun, even the glory of God, the highest of all, whose glory the
sun of the firmament is written of as being typical.
THOSE OF THE TERRESTRIAL GLORY.
And again, we saw the terrestrial world, and behold and lo, these
are they who are of the terrestrial, whose glory differs from that
of the church of the first born, who have received the fullness of
the Father, even as that of the moon differs from the sun in the
firmament.
Behold, these are they who died without law,
And also they who are the spirits of men kept in prison, whom the
Son visited, and preached the gospel unto them, that they might be
judged according to men in the flesh,
Who received not the testimony of Jesus in the flesh, but
afterwards received it.
These are they who are honorable men of the earth, who were blinded
by the craftiness of men.
These are they who receive of his glory, but not of his fullness.
These are they who receive of the presence of the Son, but not of
the fullness of the Father;
Wherefore they are bodies terrestrial, and not bodies celestial,
and differ in glory as the moon differs from the sun.
These are they who are not valiant in the testimony of Jesus;
wherefore they obtain not the crown over the kingdom of our God.
And now this is the end of the vision which we saw of the
terrestrial, that the Lord commanded us to write while we were yet
in the Spirit.
THOSE WHO INHERIT THE TELESTIAL GLORY.
And again, we saw the glory of the telestial, which glory is that
of the lesser, even as the glory of the stars differs from that of
the glory of the moon in the firmament.
These are they who received not the gospel of Christ, neither the
testimony of Jesus.
These are they who deny not the Holy Spirit.
These are they who are thrust down to hell.
These are they who shall not be redeemed from the devil, until the
last resurrection, until the Lord, even Christ the Lamb shall have
finished his work.
These are they who receive not of his fullness in the eternal
world, but of the Holy Spirit through the ministration of the
terrestrial;
And the terrestrial through the ministration of the celestial;
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