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Kingdoms of Glory: Telestial Kingdom
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It is very evident that men will not have to await the day of final judgment—the formal occasion when every living soul will stand before the judgment bar, an event that will not take place until the last soul has been resurrected—to learn their status and the degree of glory they are to receive in eternity. Those who are living a telestial law will be swept off the earth at the Second Coming. (D&C 101:24; Mal. 3; 4) Those who come forth in the morning of the first resurrection, who “are Christ’s, the first fruits,” will have celestial bodies and go to a celestial kingdom. “Those who are Christ’s at his coming” will come forth with terrestrial bodies and go to a terrestrial kingdom. Similarly those coming forth in the beginning of the second resurrection will have telestial bodies and go to a telestial kingdom, while the sons of perdition, the last to be resurrected, will have bodies capable of receiving no glory and will be cast out with the devil and his angels forever. (D&C 88:98-102) No one has yet been resurrected with any kind of a body except a celestial. Those who were with Christ in his resurrection will all have eternal inheritance in his celestial presence. (D&C 133:54-56) Though there is yet to be a day of formal judgment for all men, yet there is no question, for instance, of the reward that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob will receive in that day. “They have entered into their exaltation, according to the promises, and sit upon thrones, and are not angels but are gods,” the revelation records. (D&C 132:29-37) The same is true of Adam, Enoch, Noah, Moses, and the faithful saints from the beginning to the day of Christ.
Elder Bruce R. McConkie
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The Savior’s sacrifice opened the door of salvation for all to
President Dieter F. Uchtdorf
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Because of our Heavenly Father’s great love for all of His
President Dallin H. Oaks
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The revealed doctrine of the restored Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints teaches that all the children of God—with exceptions too limited to consider here—will ultimately inherit one of three kingdoms of glory, even the least of which “surpasses all understanding.” After a period in which the disobedient suffer for their sins, which suffering prepares them for what is to follow, all will be resurrected and proceed to the Final Judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ. There, our loving Savior, who, we are taught, “glorifies the Father, and saves all the works of his hands,” will send all the children of God to one of these kingdoms of glory according to the desires manifested through their choices. ... We know from modern revelation that “all kingdoms have a law given” and that the kingdom of glory we receive in the Final Judgment is determined by the laws we choose to follow in our mortal journey. Under that loving plan, there are multiple kingdoms—many mansions—so that all of God’s children will inherit a kingdom of glory whose laws they can comfortably “abide.”
President Dallin H. Oaks
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