Few There Be That Find It

"The scriptures speak often of a strait gate and a narrow way which lead unto that life which we have come to know as eternal life. Stress is frequently placed upon the fact that few will ultimately get onto that path and navigate that course which will result in a saved condition hereafter.

However, these are scriptural passages (D&C 132:22-25; Matt. 7:13-14; 3 Nephi 14:13-14) which must be viewed in proper perspective. In the long run, we must remember that our God and Father is a successful parent, one who will save far more of his children than he will lose! If these words seem startling at first, let us reason for a moment.

In comparison to the number of wicked souls at any given time, perhaps the numbers of faithful followers seem small. But we must keep in mind how many of our spirit brothers and sisters, almost an infinite number, will be saved. What of the children who died before the age of accountability, billions of little ones from the days of Adam to the time of the Millennium?

What of the billions of those who never had the opportunity to hear the gospel message in mortality, but who afterwards received the glad tidings, this because of a disposition which hungered and thirsted after righteousness? And, might we ask, what of the innumerable hosts who qualified for exaltation, from Enoch's city, from Melchizedek's Salem, or from the golden era of the Nephites?

What of the countless billions of those children to be born during the great millennial era, during a time when disease and death have neither sting nor victory over mankind? This is that time when children shall grow up without sin unto salvation. (D&C 45:58) Given the renewed and paradisiacal state of the earth, it may well be that more persons will live on the earth during the thousand years of our Lord's reign than the combined total of all who have lived during the previous six thousand years.

Indeed who can count the number of saved beings in eternity? Our God, who is triumphant in all battles against the forces of evil, will surely be victorious in the numbers of his children who will be saved." (Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, McConkie, Millet & Top, Vol. 4, pages 94-95)

"SOME JEWS CRITICIZED JESUS FOR HEALING ON THE SABBATH. BUT WAS IT AGAINST JEWISH LAW TO HEAL ON THE SABBATH, TO DO SOMETHING KIND AND COMPASSIONATE AND WONDERFUL? NO. ACCORDING TO MOST AUTHORITIES ON JEWISH LAW, IT WAS NOT UNLAWFUL TO DO SUCH GOOD ON THE LORD'S DAY…

IN JULY OF 1985, ETHIOPIAN JEWS WERE RESCUED ON THE SABBATH WITH THE FULL CONCURRENCE OF THE CHIEF RABBI MORDECHAI…HE SAID IT WAS NOT ONLY PERMISSIBLE BUT A COMMANDMENT TO DO SO…

HOWEVER, SOME TIME LATER ORTHODOX JEWS ENDANGERED PEOPLE'S LIVES BY THROWING ROCKS AT CARS THAT DRIVE BY ON MAIN STREETS NEAR THEIR HOUSING AREAS ON THE SABBATH. NOT WANTING THEIR CHILDREN GROWING UP SEEING PEOPLE DESECRATING GOD'S HOLY DAY BY DRIVING THEIR CARS, THEY WANT TO FORCE THEIR OWN VIEW OF OBEYING A COMMANDMENT, KEEPING THE SABBATH DAY HOLY, BY DISREGARDING ANOTHER COMMANDMENT, THOU SHALT NOT KILL.

IN REALITY, THE SABBATH IS A GREAT DAY FOR HEALING. WHEN WE GO TO CHURCH EACH SABBATH, PREPARED TO TRULY WORSHIP OUR FATHER AND OUR SAVIOR, WE ARE HEALED. WE PARTAKE OF THE SACRAMENT AND WE ARE WHOLE AGAIN."
VERSE BY VERSE, THE FOUR GOSPELS, SKINNER & OGDEN, PG. 261-262)

The Jan 1989 Ensign, page 29 tells that:

The Bible gives little detail about the personage of the Holy Ghost. The Prophet Joseph, however, gave us a number of insights about that Spirit Being and His office. On several occasions, especially in Nauvoo in 1842–43, the Prophet spoke of the Holy Ghost as a Being “in the form of a personage,” as a “spirit without tabernacle,” separate and distinct from the personages of the Father and the Son. According to the George Laub journal, on another occasion Joseph taught that “the Holy Ghost is yet a spiritual body and waiting to take to himself a body.”

Elder Bruce R. McConkie has said, "Spiritual bodies are tangible bodies, such as Christ had following His resurrection as found in Luke 24:36-43 and have spirit rather than blood. They are not to be confused with spirit bodies.

Heber C. Kimball taught: “Well, let me tell you, the Holy Ghost is a man; he is one of the sons of our Father and our God; and he is that man that stood next to Jesus Christ, just as I stand by Brother Brigham” (JD 5:179).

Franklin D. Richards quoted Joseph Smith as saying that “the Holy Ghost is now in a state of probation which, if he should perform in righteousness, he may pass through the same or a similar course of things that the Son has” (Andrew F. Ehat and Lydon W. Cook The Words of Joseph Smith, page 245).

BYU Professor Rodney Turner taught: There is yet much to be revealed in this world of the things of God, and even more in the eternity to come… (about this and other subjects.)

So, will the Holy Ghost ever get a body? From the above quotes it seems probable for His eternal progression, however, Brigham Young’s promise is that “when we go through the veil we shall know much more about these matters than we now do.” (JD 8:179)