Pearl of Great Price - Abraham 5 - January 8, 2022

 

1/8/2022 - Abraham 5

The synopsis for this chapter tells us of how “the Gods finish their planning of the creation of all things”.

V 3: On the seventh period of their ‘organizing’ the earth for us, the Gods determined that they would “rest from all their works” and they “sanctified it”. That’s the very way we need to treat OUR sabbath day: we need to sanctify it, which means to make it holy. 

V 7 tells us that “the Gods formed man from the dust of the ground, and took his spirit (that is the man’s spirit), and put it into him; and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul.”  This helps us to understand that “the breath of life” is our spirit body. (Teachings of the prophet Joseph Smith, 301)

President Spencer W Kimball tells of this same sequence of events in the language of our time: “Before this earth was created the Lord made a blueprint, as any great contractor will do before constructing. He drew up the plans, wrote the specifications, and presented them. He outlined it and we were associated with him….Our Father called us all together as explained in the scriptures, and plans were perfected now for forming an earth. In his own words: ‘And there stood one among them that was like unto God, and he said unto those who were with him: We will go down for there is a space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an earth whereon these may dwell; And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.” (Abraham 3:24-25) That assemblage included us all. The gods would make land, water, and atmosphere and then the animal kingdom, and give dominion over it all to man. That was the plan….God was the Master-worker, and he created us and brought us into existence.”

This was the beginning of time for our mortal group. It is very significant to me that we seem to be living near the end of time for this earth as it is in its present state. This is our time to stay close to the Lord, and work hard to accomplish the things we hoped to accomplish as we left His home and entered this earth life. It is a needed part of the plan for our efforts toward perfection that we, and the Lord, want us to achieve. This is the time for us to surely walk by faith.






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