The Postmortal Spirit World
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THE POSTMORTAL SPIRIT WORLD
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LIFE AFTER DEATH
WHAT HAPPENS TO US AFTER WE DIE?
There
is a plan
for our salvation
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As part of Heavenly Father's plan, He sent us from His presence to live on earth and receive mortal bodies of flesh and blood
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EVENTUALLY OUR MORTAL BODIES DIE
AND OUR SPIRITS GO TO THE SPIRIT WORLD
The spirit world is a place of waiting, working, learning, and, for the righteous, resting from care and sorrow
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Our spirits will live in the spirit world until we are ready for our resurrection. Then our mortal bodies will once more reunite with our spirits
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RESURRECTION IS REAL
WE RECIEVE THE DEGREE OF GLORY WE HAVE PREPARED FOR
MANY PEOPLE HAVE WONDERED WHAT THE SPIRIT WORLD IS LIKE
WHAT WE DO KNOW: THERE IS LIFE AFTER DEATH
WHAT COMFORT DO YOU RECEIVE FROM THIS KNOWLEDGE?
HOW CAN WE USE OUR UNDERSTANDING TO HELP OTHERS?
WHERE IS THE POSTMORTAL SPIRIT WORLD?
Latter-day prophets have said that the spirits of those who have died are not far from us.
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President Ezra Taft Benson said: “Sometimes the veil between this life and the life beyond becomes very thin. Our loved ones who have passed on are not far from us”
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President Brigham Young taught that the postmortal spirit world is on the earth, around us
WE ARE ALL STILL RIGHT HERE
WHAT IS THE NATURE OF OUR SPIRITS?
Spirit beings have the same bodily form as mortals except that the spirit body is in perfect form
Ether 3:16
Behold, this body, which ye now behold, is the body of my spirit; and man have I created after the body of my spirit; and even as I appear unto thee to be in the spirit will I appear unto my people in the flesh.
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Spirits carry with them from earth their attitudes of devotion or antagonism toward things of righteousness
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Alma 34:34
Ye cannot say, when ye are brought to that awful crisis, that I will repent, that I will return to my God. Nay, ye cannot say this; for that same spirit which doth possess your bodies at the time that ye go out of this life, that same spirit will have power to possess your body in that eternal world.
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Spirits in the spirit world have the same appetites and desires that they had when they lived on earth
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All spirits are in adult form. They were adults before their mortal existence, and they are in adult form after death, even if they die as infants or children
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Why is it important to know that our spirits will have the same attitudes in the spirit world that they have now?
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WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS IN THE POSTMORTAL SPIRIT WORLD?
ALMA CHAPTER 40
ALMA TAUGHT ABOUT TWO PLACES IN THE SPIRIT WORLD
12 The spirits of those who are righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, a state of rest, a state of peace, where they shall rest from all their troubles and from all care, and sorrow
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13 And then shall it come to pass, that the spirits of the wicked, yea, who are evil--for behold, they have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the Lord; for behold, they chose evil works rather than good;
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Therefore the spirit of the devil did enter into them, and take possession of their house--and these shall be cast out into outer darkness;
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There shall be weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth, and this because of their own iniquity, being led captive by the will of the devil.
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14 Now this is the state of the souls of the wicked, yea, in darkness, and a state of awful, fearful looking for the fiery indignation of the wrath of God upon them; thus they remain in this state, as well as the righteous in paradise, until the time of their resurrection
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The spirits are classified according to the purity of their lives and their obedience to the will of the Lord while on earth. The righteous and the wicked are separated
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1 NEPHI 15:28-30
28 And I said unto them that it was an awful gulf, which separated the wicked from the tree of life, and also from the saints of God.
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29 And I said unto them that it was a representation of that awful hell, which the angel said unto me was prepared for the wicked.
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30 And I said unto them that our father also saw that the justice of God did also divide the wicked from the righteous; and the brightness thereof was like unto the brightness of a flaming fire, which ascendeth up unto God forever and ever, and hath no end.
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The spirits ARE separated in the postmortal spirit world,
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But we still may progress as we learn gospel principles and live in accordance with them. The spirits in paradise can teach the spirits in prison
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SPIRIT PARADISE
LETS TALK ABOUT IT
According to the prophet Alma, the righteous spirits rest from earthly care and sorrow. Nevertheless, they are occupied in doing the work of the Lord.
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President Joseph F. Smith saw in a vision that immediately after Jesus Christ was crucified, He visited the righteous in the spirit world
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He appointed messengers, gave them power and authority, and commissioned them to carry the light of the gospel to them that were in darkness, even to all the spirits of men
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Doctrine and Covenants138:38
30 But behold, from among the righteous, he organized his forces and appointed messengers, clothed with power and authority, and commissioned them to go forth and carry the light of the gospel to them that were in darkness, even to all the spirits of men; and thus was the gospel preached to the dead.
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The Church is organized in the spirit world, and priesthood holders continue their responsibilities there
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President Wilford Woodruff taught: “The same Priesthood exists on the other side of the veil. … Every Apostle, every Seventy, every Elder, etc., who has died in the faith as soon as he passes to the other side of the veil, enters into the work of the ministry”
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Family relationships are also important. President Jedediah M. Grant, a counselor to Brigham Young, saw the spirit world and described to Heber C. Kimball the organization that exists there:
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“He said that the people he there saw were organized in family capacities. He said, ‘When I looked at families, there was a deficiency in some, for I saw families that would not be permitted to come and dwell together, because they had not honored their calling here’”
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SPIRIT PRISON
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1 Peter 3:18-20
18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
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19 By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
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20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
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The Apostle Peter referred to the postmortal spirit world as a prison, which it is for some. In the spirit prison are the spirits of those who have not yet received the gospel of Jesus Christ.
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These spirits have agency and may be enticed by both good and evil. If they accept the gospel and the ordinances performed for them in the temples, they may leave the spirit prison and dwell in paradise.
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Also in the spirit prison are those who rejected the gospel after it was preached to them either on earth or in the spirit prison. These spirits suffer in a condition known as hell. They have removed themselves from the mercy of Jesus Christ, who said:
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“Behold, I, God, have suffered these things for all, that they might not suffer if they would repent; but if they would not repent they must suffer even as I; which suffering caused myself, even God, the greatest of all, to tremble because of pain, and to bleed at every pore, and to suffer both body and spirit”
Doctrine and Covenants 19:16-18
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After suffering for their sins, they will be allowed, through the Atonement of Jesus Christ, to inherit the lowest degree of glory, which is the telestial kingdom.
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