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Joseph Smith’s Expansion of Our Understanding of the Premortal Life and Our Relationship to God

… a catastrophe. Yet some would have us believe that this earth, traveling through space at incomprehensible speeds, … the sun, with every condition essential to keep continued life on earth unerringly in place, happened by chance. … was far from a cosmic accident; the great Jehovah (the pre-mortal Jesus Christ) knew and made provisions for every …

A New Meaning of “Restoration”

… Our eternal life can be divided into three basic periods (see Chart 1). Before we came to this earth, we lived in a premortal estate. After our existence as … (Alma 13:3–4). Mortality is merely a continuation of that pre-earthly estate with many of the same experiences …

"The Established Order of the Kingdom of God"

… of angels and of spirits to men and women on the earth. His explanation was that heavenly messengers converse … and which is spoken of in the scriptures, reflects the life and environment of the celestial kingdom. Exaltation and … Taft Benson tells of our closeness to God because of our pre-earth life: “Nothing is going to startle us more when we …

Living Up to Our Patriarchies

… In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And God said, let us make man in our image, after our … in the flesh” (Ether 3:16). We thus know the form of a pre-earth spirit. Earthly government was patterned after … example of the law of election being based on pre-earth life and actions. He wrote that although “the children [Jacob …

The War in Heaven and Satan’s Continuing Battle for Power

… leads to conflict. These battles have spanned heaven and earth and have included both individuals and great … to righteous laws. That is the lie he promulgated in the pre-earth councils. [7] President J. Reuben Clark Jr. … their agency so they could not sin. He offered a mortal life of carnality and sensuality, of evil and crime and …

The Priesthood

… that all who hold the priesthood were foreordained in the pre-earth life. We gain insights regarding the nature of the priesthood …

The Challenge of the Book of Mormon

… of these prophets, Nephi and Jacob, were witnesses of the pre-earthly Jesus Christ; the other two, Mormon and Moroni, … untrue. . . . There is not that person on the face of the earth who has had the privilege of learning the Gospel of … Ether 5:2–4; D&C 5:11–15). First of all, we have the life and testimony of the Prophet Joseph Smith as a witness …

Why the Pearl of Great Price

… inspired account of the creation of the heavens and the earth, was ordained the law giver through whom the God of … and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man (Moses 1:39). Moses saw many inhabited worlds. He … in form and substance. It is the concept of the pre-earth existence of all persons born upon the earth. This …

Preface

… more completely the work they are accomplishing on the earth today. This sacred text crystallizes our understanding of the plan of salvation, which includes pre-earth life, the purposes of mortality, and the reality and nature …

"I Will Hasten My Work in Its Time"

… school will prepare men for a better future here on the earth, and for eternal life in the world to come. . . . Those who attend will learn of the pre-earth life and of principles and practices which will …