Added Upon - A Story by Nephi Anderson
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page 137 of 222 (61%)
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That higher promise of Millenial sway?
When Saints and angels come to earth again, And in the flesh with King Messiah reign? The spirits answered as they soared away-- "We're happy now, but wait a greater day, When sin and death, and hell, shall conquered be, And earth, with heaven enjoy the victory." --_Parley P. Pratt._ I. "They shall be gathered together as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in prison, and after many days shall they be visited."--_Isaiah 24:22._ The Lord God created all things "spiritually before they were naturally upon the earth." He created "every plant of the field before it was in the earth, every herb of the field before it grew." Before this "natural" creation "there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water, neither in the air;... but spiritually were they created and made according" to the word of God. In this second or "natural" creation all things were clothed upon by earthly element, or in other words, the spiritual was materialized so that it became discernible to the natural senses. The spiritual and the natural are, therefore, but different states of the same forms of life. In the natural world there are men, |
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