Saturday, August 11, 2018

D&C 101:23-26 -- On Purity and Moving Toward the Millennium

"And prepare for the revelation which is to come, when the veil of the covering of my temple, in my tabernacle, which hideth the earth, shall be taken off, and all flesh shall see me together.
And every corruptible thing, both of man, or of the beasts of the field, or of the fowls of the heavens, or of the fish of the sea, that dwells upon all the face of the earth, shall be consumed;
And also that of element shall melt with fervent heat; and all things shall become new, that my knowledge and glory may dwell upon all the earth.
And in that day the enmity of man, and the enmity of beasts, yea, the enmity of all flesh, shall cease from before my face."
Doctrine and Covenants 101:23-26


There are a lot of kind of destruction-y things in here, and the lead up to the Millennium is going to have a lot of that, but what caught my eye today were the other things.  The veil lifted, and everyone seeing God.  Wow, right?  And, perhaps because of that, corruptible things will be gone--but presumably not everything, because "all things shall become new" and enmity shall cease (theoretically not just because of destruction, because it talks about people being alive in later verses, and actually that there will be no more death, which is kind of mind-blowing as well (see verses 27-30)).

I think it is important to remember that God still has a lot of surprises in store for us, and that we just can't know how all of this works yet.  It isn't because God is keeping it from us... he tells us right here.  It is that we just don't have the foundation yet to understand some of these huge things like how the world was made and how all of these things are going to come to pass.  The no more death thing we read about in another part of the scriptures as likely being a change in our bodies.  That might be the "all things shall become new" part.  Instead of melting with fervent heat, if we are pure (not corruptible?), perhaps we will be changed into forms that can withstand the destruction?

Being able to see God, and there being absolutely no enmity, which I take to mean no hatred or resentment...  that part is overwhelmingly miraculous by itself.  And to think that we could be there, and actually live to see this perfect world that God creates from the old.  It's amazing, and something to look forward to, and today it seems like a very good reason to work on our purity, and our resentment, and all of the things that might be holding us back from being part of it.

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