Choice 3: Obadiah. Saviors “up on Mount Zion”
Obadiah 1: 17 and 21, D&C 128: 5 and 15 are about doing the work for those who have come before us. We are the Saviors for our ancestors. Through us they can be brought forth in the first resurrection, clothed in glory! It is our duty and responsibility to serve them and do their work in the temple. This was the plan from the beginning. The Lord prepared this church to do this work in the Latter-days.
The temple is where we are able to help other become holy and for us too, to become more like the Father. Through the covenants we make in the temple we are blessed and made better. This opportunity to draw closer to our Heavenly Father should not be passed by. I need to be better about serving the Lord and my ancestors, to be able to do their work for them. In the temple we are brought closer to the Lord and our forefathers. The temple is a house of God, a place of calm and clarity. When we are able to sacrifice our time to attend we are being delivered.
The Scriptures:
Obadiah 1:17 ¶But upon mount Zion shall be deliverance, and there shall be holiness; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.
1:21 And saviours shall come up on mount Zion to judge the mount of Esau; and the kingdom shall be the Lord’s.
Doctrine and Covenants 128:5 You may think this order of things to be very particular; but let me tell you that it is only to answer the will of God, by conforming to the ordinance and preparation that the Lord ordained and prepared before the foundation of the world, for the salvation of the dead who should die without a knowledge of the gospel.
128:15 And now, my dearly beloved brethren and sisters, let me assure you that these are principles in relation to the dead and the living that cannot be lightly passed over, as pertaining to our salvation. For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.
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