Friday, January 18, 2013

The Plan of Salvation

Last night we took turns reading from chapter 9 of 2Nep.  Holy Moly but it was one long chapter!  Beverly always wants to read every single time but none of us wants her to read for she reads like a 3rd grader instead of a 6th grader.  It never fails, every time she asks:  "Can I read now?"  Like a chorus the other kids sang;  "NOOOO?"  No matter though, Beverly will take a turn reading now and then and we just have to be patient and hear her out. 

Jacob speaks of two types of death.  Spiritual death and Physical death. (2Nep 9:2)

And this adeath of which I have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death is bhell; wherefore, death and hell must cdeliver up their dead, and hell must deliver up its dcaptive espirits, and the grave must deliver up its captive fbodies, and the bodies and the gspirits of men will be hrestored one to the other; and it is by the power of the resurrection of the Holy One of Israel.

 He speaks of RESURRECTION and the consequences of the choices that we make in this life.

Wherefore, we shall have a aperfect bknowledge of all our cguilt, and our duncleanness, and our enakedness; and the righteous shall have a perfect knowledge of their enjoyment, and their frighteousness, being gclothed with hpurity, yea, even with the irobe of righteousness.

He speaks of a "first death" and then a "judgement" 
 16 And assuredly, as the Lord liveth, for the Lord God hath spoken it, and it is his eternal aword, which cannot bpass away, that they who are righteous shall be righteous still, and they who are cfilthy shall be dfilthy still; wherefore, they who are filthy are the edevil and his angels; and they shall go away into feverlasting fire, prepared for them; and their gtorment is as a hlake of fire and brimstone, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever and has no end.

He speakS of the ATONEMENT
 26 For the aatonement satisfieth the demands of his bjustice upon all those who chave not the dlaw given to them, that they are edelivered from that awful monster, death and fhell, and the devil, and the lake of fire and brimstone, which is endless torment; and they are restored to that God who gave them gbreath, which is the Holy One of Israel.

Jacob delivered powerful words concerning the Atonement of Jesus Christ.  That in Him all will be resurrected and can have the Atonement work for them if they but repent and keep His commandment.  That Satan, the devil himself wants followers and that he entices, entrapped and blindeth people with the things of this world so that they may not be able to make the right choices.  I know what the plan that Heavenly Father gave to us.  It's a wonderful plan, an excellent plan that enables us to all return home to Him once we depart this earth making the right choices. 

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