hi everybody welcome my Homestead and welcome to my channel my name is Jared this is episode four in my playlist about the 144,000 I would encourage you to watch the other videos if you haven't already they all build on top of each other in this video we're going to look at uh the entry for 144,000 in Mormon Doctrine by Bruce Armon and then we're also going to look at a uh talk by or a discourse by Orson Pratt in the Journal of discourses so starting with uh Mormon Doctrine 144,000 see Church of the firstborn exaltation
Millennium sealed in forehead second coming of Christ Zion at his second coming the lamb shall stand upon Mount Zion and with him 144,000 having his father's name written on their foreheads these 144,000 are Gods as the name on their forehead specifies their callings and elections have been made sure they are exalted personages okay let's stop right here really quick if you are exalted that means that you have already passed through mortality you've been resurrected and you've been resurrect resurrected to a Celestial glory and on top of that you've reached the highest degree of the Celestial
Kingdom which is known as exaltation so we're talking about resurrected beings that have obtained exaltation now that would fit in perfectly with what we've already talked about in previous uh episodes in episode two we talked about the fact that the selection of the 144,000 had already commenced according to Joseph Smith all of them are now dead and then in um episode three we talked about the fact that the angel the four angels in the Book of Revelation in chapter 7 were waiting for the 144,000 to be selected and um and have the seals and their
foreheads and all that and then at the dedication of the Sol temple in 1893 they were let loose so this would fit uh what we're reading here perfectly that these are people that are resurrected have received their exaltation all right continuing they are redeemed from among men and in their mouth was found no guile for they are without fault Before the Throne of God they have attained Perfection these Brethren 12,000 from each of the tribes of Israel except excepting for some unspecified reason the tribe of Dan are high priests ordained unto the holy order of
God to administer the Everlasting gospel for they are they who are ordained out of every nation Kindred tongue and people by the angels to whom is given power over the nations of the earth to bring as many as will come to the Church of the firstborn they are part of a great multitude which no man could number all of whom shall have membership in the Church of the firstborn and therefore be exalted beings again if you are exalted that means that you've passed through mortality you're you were found worthy of the Celestial Kingdom in the
highest degree of the Celestial Kingdom which is exaltation if we go to guide to the scriptures the entry for firstborn we find this right here Jesus was the firstborn of the spirit children of our heavenly father the only begotten of the father in the flesh and the first to rise from the dead in the resurrection faithful Saints become members of the Church of the firstborn in eternity okay in eternity not in mortality uh it has a reference here DNC section 93: 21 and 22 and now verely I say say unto you I was in the
beginning with the father and I am the firstborn and all those who are begotten through me are partakers of the glory of the same and are the Church of the firstborn this is another key word Glory you don't receive Glory until you are resurrected and then you inherit either a telestial glory a terrestrial Glory or a Celestial Glory so this has to do with people that a pastor through mortality and again they've obtained exaltation and the glory that pertains to that I also want to read the entry for a church of the firstborn in Mormon
Doctrine it says see Celestial marriage Church of En Church of Jesus Christ of latterday saints Daughters of God exaltation fullness of the father godhood joint HS with Christ salvation sons of God members of the Church of Jesus Christ of lattery saints who so devote themselves to righteousness that they receive the higher ordinances of exaltation become members of the Church of the firstborn baptism is the gate to the church itself but Celestial marriage is the gate to membership in the Church of the firstborn the inner circle of faithful Saints who are Heirs of exaltation and the
fullness of the father's Kingdom the the Church of the firstborn is made up of those sons of God those who have been adopted into the family of the Lord those who are destined to be joint Hees with Christ in receiving all that the father hath if you keep my Commandments you shall receive of his fullness and be glorified in me as I am in the father and all those who are begotten through me are partakers of the glory of the same and are the Church of the firstborn now I want to go ahead and read
um part of this discourse by Orson Pratt this is in volume 8 of the Journal of discourses and he says who will be with Jesus when he appears the decree has gone forth saying mine apostles who were with me in Jerusalem shall be clothed in glory and be with me the brightness of their countenance will shine forth with all all that refulgence in fullness of Splendor that shall surround the son of man when he appears there will be all those personages to whom he alludes there will be all the former Day Saints Enoch and his
City with all the greatness and Splendor that surround them there will be Abraham Isaac and Jacob as they sit upon their Thrones together with all the persons that have been redeemed and brought near unto the presence of God all will be unfolded and unveiled and all this will be for the wicked to look upon as well as the righteous for the wicked will not yet have been destroyed when this takes place there will be Latter-Day Saints living upon the Earth and they will Ascend and mingle themselves with that vast throng for they will they will
be filled with anxiety to go where the Saints of the Church of the firstborn are and the Church of the firstborn will feel in anxiety to come and meet with the Saints on Earth and this will bring the general assembly of the redeemed into one and thus will be fulfilled the saying of Paul that in this dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ both which are in heaven and which are on earth even in him about the same time that the latterday Saints are quickened not immortalized
and let me add further this is me talking immortalized would mean that you're resurrected right we know that when you're quickened everyone's going to be in a quickened state if you're still in mortality during the Millennium and you'll live to the age of a tree which Isaiah defines as 100 years so two classes of people those that are in a Quicken State and those that are resurrected uh which means that you're in an immortal State okay about the same time that the lattery Saints are quickened not immortalized there will be saints that have been that
have slumbered and slept for ages and they are to be quickened and taken up into the heavens now the wicked are to see all these things and if power of language could be given to them what would they say they would turn to the rocks and the mountains and say oh mountains and rocks fall upon us and hide us from the presence of him that sits upon the throne and from the Wrath of the lamb and I have no doubt but they will have the power to say it but they must endure the sight after
which they must be consumed according to that which is spoken and the Heathen Nations must be redeemed and the way be prepared for the Lord to dwell upon the Earth the Mortal Saints will then be transfigured and Sanctified but not immortalized they will be prepared for the millennial Reign the tables will then be spread and the latter day and former Day Saints will be together to partake of the sacrament just as it is this afternoon only more more perfectly prepared this is my object in thus portraying these things before you this afternoon for as often
as we do this we show forth the Lord's death till he come when that time comes he will partake of the fruit of the Vine with us and with him will be Moroni Mormon and Lehi and all the inhabitants of this vast American continent who have been saved through the gospel there will be Enoch's City the former Saints and the vast throng of resurrected Saints to sit down and partake of the supper of the great bridegroom and he will administer in the midst of his Brethren I hope and pray that I may be prepared to
be one of that joyful throng to be assembled there with a pure heart and one that is upright before God I also hope that my brethren will be with me and that we we shall have the privilege of celebrating the marriage supper of the lamb for that will be a happy day so putting it all together it all seems to make sense just one more time so Joseph Smith said while he was still alive that the selection process had already begun of the 144,000 furthermore we learn in Revelation chapter 7 that the Angels would not
be allowed to be let loose until the 144,000 have been selected and we know from wford Woodruff and Joseph fing Smith that the Angels were were released in 1893 at the dedication of the Salt Lake Temple and so that process must have been completed and now we learn from Bruce armak coni that these are exalted beings and that goes along with what we read from Orson Pratt so that's all that's all that I have for this one if you haven't already please make sure to subscribe like this video if you like liked it leave your
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