Our Future

WHEN WILL I EVER GET A REST?  (Taken from the book, Verse by Verse, the Book of Mormon, by BYU Professors Kelly Ogden and Andrew Skinner, Vol. 2, beginning on page 43).

“Troubles, care and sorrow are an intentional and essential part of mortality.  We were not sent down here to be comfortable.  Earth life is a testing ground of faith and obedience and it purposefully includes adversity.  However, there will come a deserved rest from the troubles, care and sorrow; but only for the righteous…

The righteous are those who have been baptized and remained faithful in mortality.  At death they are judged worthy to be gathered to one part of the spirit world, that is, paradise.  All others go to other parts of the spirit world.  A part of the spirit world is reserved for those who once knew the ways of righteousness but ultimately rejected the things of God.  It does not refer to those who died in ignorance. (Alma 40:13-14)…

Joseph Smith pointed out, ‘The great misery of departed spirits in the world of spirits, where they go after death, is to know that they come short of the glory that others enjoy and that they might have enjoyed themselves and they are their own accusers.’ (Teachings of TPJS pages 310-311)  Thus hell or outer darkness is both a place, a part of the world of spirits where suffering and sorrow and appropriate preparation go on and a state, a condition of the mind associated with remorseful realization.”

However, “Resurrection is a miraculous blessing to everyone.  There is no fulness of joy possible without a reunion of body and spirit…The Prophet Joseph Smith taught: ‘All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful…all will be raised by the power of God, having spirit in their bodies and not blood.’

President Joseph Fielding Smith also observed: ‘Bodies will come up…as they were laid down, but will be restored to their proper, perfect frame immediately.  Old people will not look old when they come forth from the grave.  Scars will be removed.  No one will be bent or wrinkled.’”