Unveiling Jesus Christ

This podcast explains how the wrath of God will be poured out on telestial-worthy people and sons of perdition during the battle of Gog and Magog which John describes in Revelation 20:8, saying: “And [Satan] shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle.”

Gog and Magog are symbolic names that come from actual people and/or nations in ancient history from the Old Testament. In John’s vision, the symbolic names represent the mortal sons of perdition who battle against telestial-worthy “saints” during the little season of wickedness after the millennium. This final battle on earth will be an actual worldwide conflict between an immense number of people from all quarters of the earth. The wrath of God on earth during the little season will cause telestial-worthy saints to repent and make them worthy of an inheritance within the telestial kingdom as they resurrect in the morning of the last resurrection. Sons of perdition will become more hardened and rebellious against God and Jesus Christ. They will be the last people destroyed on earth when they are ripe in iniquity and they will be cast into outer darkness when they resurrect in the afternoon of the last resurrection.

This podcast explains the little season of wickedness that will begin when Satan is loosed from the bottomless pit at the end of the millennium as described by John in Revelation 20:7, which states: “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison.” John describes how Satan is bound in the bottomless pit at the start of the millennium in Revelation 20:1-3. This podcast initially talks about the duration of the little season as lasting less than 100 years, based on the 100-year lifespan of millennial mortals and the fact that children will not be born during the little season for reasons explained during this podcast.

By the time Satan is loosed from his prison with all unembodied spirit sons of perdition at the start of the little season, the first resurrection of all celestial and terrestrial-worthy people will be complete. The only people left on earth will be telestial-worthy people and sons of perdition. Even before Satan is loosed at the end of the millennium, people will become increasingly wicked in the same way the Nephites became increasingly wicked after their golden era described in the Book of Mormon. Satan will be loosed by the exercise of priesthood keys held by Michael the Archangel to fulfill the purposes of God. Having already redeemed all celestial and terrestrial worthy people, God’s purpose is save as many people in the telestial kingdom who repent when they suffer the wrath of God during the Armageddon-like the battle of Gog and Magog during the little season. Sons of perdition who refuse to repent when they suffer the wrath of God will be destroyed by fire at the end of the earth when they are ripe in iniquity.

This podcast explains the conditions of the earth at the end of the celestial resurrection when the millennium ends. The celestial resurrection will end with both the morning of the first resurrection for exaltation-worthy people and the afternoon of the first resurrection for unexalted ministering angels of the celestial kingdom at the same time. Almost immediately after the celestial resurrection ends, the terrestrial resurrection will take place, leaving only telestial-worthy people and sons of perdition as mortals on earth during the little season of wickedness that follows the millennium.

Terrestrial-worthy people will resurrect in one large group. Terrestrial people who die prior to the end of the millennium from all ages of the earth will come forth from their graves, while terrestrial people still living at the end of the millennium will be changed to their resurrected condition in the twinkling of an eye. Once the terrestrial resurrection is complete, this will also be the end of the first resurrection of the just for all the celestial and terrestrial-worthy people.

This podcast also compares the similarities between the celestial and terrestrial resurrections at the end of the millennium with other foreshadows from history that include the city of Enoch that was taken to heaven with its righteous inhabitants. There are also foreshadows and parallels between the golden age of the Nephites and the 1000 year millennium. The Nephite golden era ended with great wickedness and apostasy after the three translated (terrestrial) Nephites were taken out of the midst of the people. This led eventually to the entire destruction of the Nephite civilization. This foreshadows the end of the millennium when celestial and terrestrial people shall resurrect and be taken from the earth. The destruction of all remaining wicked people will follow at the end of the little season of wickedness.

This podcast explains the two stages of celestial resurrection that include the morning of the first resurrection before the second coming for exaltation-worthy saints and the afternoon of the first resurrection that begins immediately after the Second Coming for unexalted ministering angels of the celestial kingdom. Both stages of resurrection are described in Doctrine and Covenants 88:97-99. The afternoon of the first resurrection is described in verse 99, specifically, which states: “And after this another angel shall sound, which is the second trump; and then cometh the redemption of those who are Christ's at his coming; who have received their part in that prison which is prepared for them, that they might receive the gospel, and be judged according to men in the flesh.” Leaders and scholars in the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints interpret this verse to mean the terrestrial resurrection, rather than the second stage of the celestial resurrection. This podcast explains why verse 99 is part of the celestial resurrection by comparing it to Paul’s writings in 1 Corinthians 15:23 and 29, and also by analyzing the language in D&C 88:97-102 for all four stages of resurrection for celestial, terrestrial, telestial, and sons of perdition.

This podcast explains the celestial resurrection of exalted and unexalted people of the celestial kingdom who come forth shortly after the second coming in the afternoon of the first resurrection. The resurrection of such persons is distinguished from exaltation-worthy people who come forth prior to the second coming in the morning of the first resurrection. This podcast describes four distinct classes or categories of people who come forth in the celestial resurrection after the second coming of Jesus Christ. First, they include celestial worthy people (both exalted and unexalted), who qualify for celestial glory but they did not receive their gospel ordinances prior to their death before the Second Coming so their resurrection had to wait until after the Second Coming. Second, people still living at the time of the second coming who must still receive their gospel ordinances after the Second Coming and therefore live for some period of time during the millennium when they can then be changed in the twinkling of an eye to a resurrected state. Third, people born during the millennium who live as millennial mortals and receive their gospel ordinances as “living ordinances” for themselves before they are changed in the twinkling of an eye at 100 years of age. Fourth, the translated Lost Ten Tribes who receive their temple ordinances at the temple located in Independence Missouri. They will also resurrect after they receive their temple ordinances at the hands of Ephraim.

This podcast also explains the resurrection of unexalted people to the celestial kingdom when a second resurrection angel sounds as described in Doctrine and Covenants 88:99. This verse is commonly interpreted by people within the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints as the terrestrial resurrection. This podcast takes the position and explains that this verse actually describes part of the celestial resurrection for unexalted people who come forth after the second coming in the afternoon of the first resurrection.

This podcast provides an overview of the first resurrection of the just, which includes all people who will resurrect to the celestial and terrestrial kingdoms by the end of the millennium. This overview also includes a discussion of the second resurrection of the unjust, which includes all people who resurrect to the telestial kingdom and sons of perdition who resurrect to outer darkness. The resurrection of the unjust will occur after the little season of the wickedness that follows the millennium and at the end of the earth.

This podcast also provides a detailed explanation of the morning of the first resurrection when exaltation-worthy saints are resurrected as the firstfruits of the resurrection. This stage of the resurrection began with the resurrection of Jesus Christ in the meridian of time. All exaltation-worthy saints who lived and died or were translated prior to the death of Jesus Christ were resurrected with him on both the Eastern and Western hemispheres.

Since the time of Christ’s resurrection, the resurrection has not been ongoing or continuous on a general basis for the last 2000 years. People such as Moroni, Peter, and James, have been resurrected since the resurrection of Jesus Christ because they had missions to perform in the flesh on earth. The disembodied spirits of virtually all other people who have died since the resurrection of Jesus Christ enter the postmortal spirit world to fulfill the vast amount of missionary work in that sphere of existence.

The morning of the first resurrection will resume with a very large group of people at the end of the Second Woe just before the Second Coming. This resurrection will include exaltation-worthy people who are living, deceased, and translated. When the morning resumes at the second coming, it will then continue without interruption throughout the entire duration of the millennium. This will make it possible for any and all exaltation-worthy people who live during the millennium to resurrect with an exalted and glorified bodies.

This podcast explains the interrelationship between the law of earthly ordinances and the order of resurrection. The law of earthly ordinances requires that all gospel ordinances be performed on mortal people in the flesh before the resurrection. Baptism and confirmation are the gateway ordinances for entry into the celestial kingdom. The sealing ordinance is the gateway ordinance necessary for exaltation in the highest degree of celestial glory. To qualify for exaltation, a person must receive all his or her gospel ordinances for themselves before their resurrection as living ordinances or by proxy as vicarious ordinances.

Children who die before the age of eight years are unaccountable and do not require baptism or confirmation. However, they still require the sealing ordinance to be exalted. The same rule and exception applies to people who reach the age of accountability but remain unaccountable because of mental and/or physical disability. Most unaccountable people will receive their necessary temple ordinances by proxy during the millennium prior to their resurrection. The morning of the first resurrection for exaltation-worthy people will continue until the end of the millennium so that these and all other people can resurrect after they first receive their gospel ordinances during the millennium as living ordinances or vicarious ordinances.

This podcast also discusses the patriarchal order of the priesthood, whereby all exaltation-worthy people are linked in the resurrection as part of an eternal family chain going back to Adam and Eve. In this context there is an explanation of the need for the temple ordinance of sealing children to parents before the resurrection where those same children have been sealed to a spouse in the new and everlasting covenant of marriage that is frequently called celestial marriage and the sealing ordinance.

This podcast explains how the law of obedience dictates the order of resurrection of all things including all four classes of creation, which consist of humans, animals, plants, and worlds. Resurrection is a third re-creation of all things that began with the spirit creation carried out by God the Father, followed by the physical creation carried out by Jesus Christ (Jehovah). Finally, the resurrection is made possible by the atonement of Jesus Christ. In each of these three separate creations, the order of creation reverses.

Resurrection proceeds from highest to lowest. Therefore, as the most intelligent class of all God’s creations, humans resurrect first in descending order of obedience beginning with Jesus Christ as the most obedient and intelligent of all God’s creations. After the Savior, other people will resurrect in descending order of obedience to inherit the celestial, terrestrial or telestial kingdoms. Sons of perdition do not qualify for a kingdom of glory, but they will resurrect last and remain forever in their resurrected condition in the lake of fire and brimstone‒also known as outer darkness.

The first stage of the human resurrection must be complete on all worlds of this generation before the resurrection proceeds with the resurrection of animals on all worlds that become part of the celestial, terrestrial and telestial kingdoms of glory. Animals appointed to these various kingdoms fill the measure of their creation, without the exercise of agency, based on the measure of their intelligence and capacity to live the law associated with the kingdom to which they resurrect. Animals do not resurrect to exist in outer darkness.

After the resurrection of all animals on all worlds and to all kingdoms of glory, the resurrection of plants proceeds in like manner from highest to lowest intelligence. Finally, the

resurrection of all worlds proceeds from the highest to lowest intelligence beginning with this earth, which has Kolob as its inward spirit. Kolob is the most intelligent of all spirit worlds and will become the great governing star of the universe after its resurrection.

This podcast explains John’s vision of the first resurrection as described in Revelation 20:5-6, which states: “But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection. Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.”

The rest of the dead referred to in this verse are terrestrial-worthy people who come forth in the first resurrection at the end of the millennium in one large group. Telestial-worthy people and sons of perdition also resurrect at the end of the millennium during the second resurrection of the unjust, but they are not‒strictly speaking‒referred to as "the rest of the dead" in Revelation 20:5. Exaltation-worthy saints who come forth in the morning of the first resurrection are blessed and holy because they have no part in the second death, which is the opposite of eternal life. The second death is a permanent punishment for sons of perdition. The priests of God and of Christ in Revelation 20:6, are the kings and queens identified in Revelation 20:4 that will rule and reign with Christ in their resurrected condition throughout the millennium.

This podcast explains the symbolism used by John to describe exaltation-worthy people who come forth in the morning of the first resurrection as kings and queens that rule and reign with Jesus Christ throughout the millennium in Revelation 20:4. This verse states: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.” (Rev 20:4)

The judgment given to these resurrected saints is twofold. First, it means they were judged themselves and found worthy to be resurrected to a glorified and exalted state. Second, it also means that after their resurrection they sit as judges in connection with their millennial reign. Those who qualify to rule and reign with Jesus Christ are those who suffered martyrdom for their testimony of Jesus Christ or, alternatively, overcame Satan by refusing to worship the beast or his image. The mark of the beast in the forehead or in the hand refers to mortal sons of perdition who receive the mark of the beast in their forehead and to telestial-worthy people who receive the mark of the beast in their right hand. Such people will not come forth in the first resurrection of the just, but will be resurrected last after the millennium and end of the earth during the resurrection of the unjust.