| Re: Prophecies of the Coming of ELIJAH [message #2305 is a reply to message #1451] |
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brrgilbert
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Registered: December 2012
Location: Nampa, Idaho
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I have just concluded reading the postings of this thread. I am concerned about some of the implications brought forward and should like to ask a few questions related thereto. I should like to direct these to Kingdom of Zion as the originator and presenter of the concepts involved.
It is a traditionally held belief that the "dispensational plan" in which we are partakers has a duration of 7,000 years. The inference of an additional dispensation would tend to upset this apple cart. What would constitute further evidence to either support or deny this assertion? Is it correct or is it false?
I concur that the Prophet Joseph Smith gave cause to question the completion of Elijah's mission. Are you inferring that Elijah will come again in a "translated" state to fulfill this mission or are you proposing that he will come again as a mortal?
This idea of first, second, third, and fourth estate beings is interesting and I would request that you review with me the definitions / explanations of each and how they interact.
I am very concerned about this "reincarnation" paradigm that has been made in another thread and inferred by this one. The idea of passing relentlessly through mortality and being "recycled" over and over again terrifies me. I caught the scent of a "yo-yo" effect of trying to make the connection with those who have passed on via the sealing power of Elijah and ourselves, as a way to "guarantee" that in the next iteration of lives we would have a sure "anchor" to allow us to return. I guess that what I am wondering about is your concept of the plan of salvation . . . . How does your cosmology incorporate the idea of reincarnation with reference to the Plan of Salvation? Perhaps I have limited, with my vernacular, your movie to a single snap-shot and this is not my intent. I wish to understand the whole of your "plan of progression" from an individual (got everything right) perspective. From what I am gleaning, I am feeling "forced" by such a paradigm into "conforming" to righteousness or be consigned to go around and around and around; up to the spirit world or heaven and then down to mortality, over and over again. The idea is one of continuous hell to me. Tell me why I would want to choose such an existence and would you "sell it" to me? Do I have it right? Help me understand because my eternity could depend on it. I appreciate your patience and gratefully anticipate your response.
"I must endure the presence of a few caterpillars if I wish to become acquainted with the butterflies."
The Little Prince by St. Exupery
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