In this article – I’m going to try to help you understand that at atonement of Christ is greater than time and space – it’s endless and goes on forever!
God is endless – we are endless and the atonement of Chris is also endless!
Let’s talk about Adam and Eve – our first parents – they at first didn’t even know why they were commanded to worship God and offer sacrifices to him, but Adam was obedient and did it any way – and in time an angle comes and asks Adam why do you offer sacrifices? Adam admits he does not know why – here is what modern scriptures tells us –
This is in the Pearl of Great Price Moses Chapter 5
https://www.churchofjesuschrist.org/study/scriptures/pgp/moses/5?lang=eng
5 And he gave unto them commandments, that they should aworship the Lord their God, and should offer the bfirstlings of their cflocks, for an offering unto the Lord. And Adam was dobedient unto the commandments of the Lord.
6 And after many days an aangel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying: Why dost thou offer bsacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me.
Adam did not know why – he was obedient – but the angle wanted him to know and understand more – we need to know and understand more and until then – we still need to be obedient to what we have been commanded to do – to seek, to ask and to pray and to be obedient to the spirit of God..
7 And then the angel spake, saying: This thing is a asimilitude of the bsacrifice of the Only Begotten of the Father, which is full of cgrace and dtruth.
( In modern words this is symbolic to the great sacrifice of Jesus Christ – which will not happen for 1000s of years but will though the power of faith – bless you and your children forever!!) We will talk a little more about what happens after this visit by an angel..
8 Wherefore, thou shalt do all that thou doest in the aname of the Son, and thou shalt brepent and ccall upon God in the name of the Son forevermore.
Learn to be obedient to the commandments and spirit of GOD – pray in faith, believe in Christ – Pray to the Father in Christ’s name – learn to repent – and in time you will be baptized and receive the gift of the Holy spirit by laying on of hands – then you will even know and understand more! We will talk more on this later…
9 And in that day the aHoly Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the bOnly Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth and forever, that as thou hast cfallen thou mayest be dredeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will.
The Holy Ghost is teaching Adam and he will soon be teaching his wife and children to do the same –
10 And in that day Adam blessed God and was afilled, and began to bprophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my ctransgression my deyes are opened, and in this life I shall have ejoy, and again in the fflesh I shall see God.
11 And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had aseed, and never should have bknown good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.
Eve is helping Adam understand that the fall was a good thing, and that they are blessed with children…
12 And Adam and aEve blessed the name of God, and they made all things bknown unto their sons and their daughters.
Now Adam and Eve start to teach these things to their children and some believe and others rebel…
13 And aSatan came among them, saying: I am also a son of God; and he commanded them, saying: bBelieve it not; and they believed it not, and they cloved Satan more than God. And men began from that time forth to be dcarnal, sensual, and devilish.
Some repented and others did not – God didn’t force any of them to only follow his way –
14 And the Lord God called upon men by the aHoly Ghost everywhere and commanded them that they should repent;
15 And as many as abelieved in the Son, and repented of their sins, should be bsaved; and as many as believed not and repented not, should be cdamned; and the words went forth out of the mouth of God in a firm decree; wherefore they must be fulfilled.
( so now mankind is being taught the basic gospel and some believe and repent – others do not and rebel )
16 And Adam and Eve, his wife, ceased not to call upon God. And Adam knew Eve his wife, and she conceived and bare aCain, and said: I have gotten a man from the Lord; wherefore he may not reject his words. But behold, Cain bhearkened not, saying: Who is the Lord that I should cknow him?
Adam will soon learn that he can repent and be saved – the shedding of the Messiahs blood – will redeem all mankind on the conditions of this gospel – even those that do not repent – but the consequences of obedience are much great to those that obey – we will show this more in the future..
Now we will see that Adam and Eve teach faith, repentance, baptism and gift of the holy ghost –
54 Hence came the saying abroad among the people, that the aSon of God hath batoned for original guilt, wherein the sins of the parents cannot be answered upon the heads of the cchildren, for they are dwhole from the foundation of the world.
Here we see that Adam knew about Christ and his atonement for his fall –
55 And the Lord spake unto Adam, saying: Inasmuch as thy children are aconceived in sin, even so when they begin to grow up, bsin conceiveth in their hearts, and they taste the cbitter, that they may know to prize the good.
56 And it is given unto them to know good from evil; wherefore they are aagents unto themselves, and I have given unto you another law and commandment.
Again Adam is taught to repent or you can not inherit a kingdom of heaven.
57 Wherefore teach it unto your children, that all men, everywhere, must arepent, or they can in nowise inherit the kingdom of God, for no bunclean thing can dwell there, or cdwell in his dpresence; for, in the language of Adam, eMan of Holiness is his name, and the name of his Only Begotten is the fSon of Man, even gJesus Christ, a righteous hJudge, who shall come in the meridian of time.
Again this Christ will come a long time in the future and judge all – this atonement will free mankind from sin on conditions of keeping the commandments, having faith, repenting of sins and being baptized etc.
58 Therefore I give unto you a acommandment, to bteach these things freely unto your cchildren, saying:
59 That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the aspirit, which I have made, and so became of bdust a living soul, even so ye must be cborn again into the kingdom of heaven, of dwater, and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; that ye might be sanctified from all sin, and eenjoy the fwords of geternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal hglory;
60 For by the awater ye keep the commandment; by the Spirit ye are bjustified, and by the cblood ye are dsanctified;
61 Therefore it is given to abide in you; the arecord of heaven; the bComforter; the cpeaceable things of immortal glory; the truth of all things; that which quickeneth all things, which maketh alive all things; that which knoweth all things, and hath all dpower according to wisdom, mercy, truth, justice, and judgment.
62 And now, behold, I say unto you: This is the aplan of salvation unto all men, through the bblood of mine cOnly Begotten, who shall come in the meridian of time.
( This is the atonement of Christ – the messiah )!
63 And behold, all things have their alikeness, and all things are created and made to bbear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.
64 And it came to pass, when the Lord had spoken with Adam, our father, that Adam cried unto the Lord, and he was acaught away by the Spirit of the Lord, and was carried down into the water, and was laid under the bwater, and was brought forth out of the water.
HERE ADAM IS BAPTIZED AND LATER GETS THE GIFT OF THE HOLY SPIRIT!
65 And thus he was baptized, and the Spirit of God descended upon him, and thus he was aborn of the Spirit, and became quickened in the binner man.
66 And he heard a voice out of heaven, saying: Thou art baptized with afire, and with the Holy Ghost. This is the brecord of the Father, and the Son, from henceforth and forever;
67 And thou art after the aorder of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all eternity.
68 Behold, thou art aone in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my bsons. Amen.
We may through faith all become sons of god if we obey the true and full gospel – there is one lord – one god and one faith and baptism – follow what has been revealed and become one with other latter day saints!
So through faith and obedience Adam could partake of the atonement – thousands of years before it took place – so faith is indeed greater than time and space….
Even Christ was baptized to keep the commandments of the Father and not for the remission of sins – for he had none!
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