Living in the Millennium by Robert L. Millet

Author:Robert L. Millet [Millet, Robert L.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Religion
Publisher: Deseret Book Company
Published: 2014-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

A Holy Ordinance

The early leaders of this dispensation taught that resurrection was an ordinance that must be performed by one holding proper authority. President Brigham Young taught: “It is supposed by this people that we have all the ordinances in our possession for life and salvation, and exaltation, and that we are administering these ordinances. This is not the case. We are in possession of all the ordinances that can be administered in the flesh [in mortality]; 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 the keys of the resurrection. They will be given to those who have passed off this stage of action and have received their bodies again, as many have already done and many more will. They will be ordained, by those who hold the keys of the resurrection, to go forth and resurrect the Saints, just as we receive the ordinance of baptism.”10 President Young also taught that “when the body comes forth again, it will be divine, God-like, according to the capacity and ordinations of the Lord.”11

As to the process by which the resurrection will pass upon all, Elder Erastus Snow explained that “we have, in our limited understandings, perhaps imagined, many of us, that this glorious resurrection was to come upon us, and upon the whole world suddenly, like the rising of the sun. But you must remember the sun does not rise the same hour and the same moment upon all the earth. . . . So with the resurrection. There is a day appointed for the resurrection of the righteous. And it is sealed upon the heads of many that if they are faithful and true, they shall come forth ‘in the morning of the first resurrection’; but the morning lasts from the first hour of the day until mid-day, and the day lasts till night; and the rest of the dead—those who are not prepared or counted worthy to have part in the first resurrection—shall not live again until the thousand years are ended.” Elder Snow then added that those who come forth in the morning of the first resurrection “shall be crowned kings and priests with God and the Lamb—they shall reign with Christ . . . and carry on the work of redemption and resurrection of the Saints of God.”12

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