Insights on Death, Resurrection, and Judgment in Christian Doctrine
Explore the events between the death and resurrection of Christ, alongside a timeline of Jesus' final hours, discussing resurrections, the nature of the Spirit World, the Final Judgment, and more based on scriptures and teachings from Christian perspectives.
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The Savior Ministered in The Spirit World
What happened between the death and resurrection of Christ? Scriptures to support your doctrine?
Timeline of Jesus' Final Hours 9 a.m. - Jesus is Crucified on the Cross Luke 23:34 - "Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they do." The Soldiers Cast Lots for Jesus' Clothing (Mark 15:24) Jesus is Insulted and Mocked Jesus speaks with the Criminal ( Today thou shalt be with me in Paradise ) Jesus Speaks to Mary and John ( Woman, behold thy son ) Noon - Darkness Covers the Land until the ninth hour. My God, My God, why hast thou forsaken Me?
Timeline of Jesus' Final Hours I thirst - John 19:28-29 3 p.m. It is Finished (John 19:30) "Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. (Luke 23:46) Events Following Jesus' Death The Earthquake The Centurion- "Surely he was the Son of God! The Soldiers Break the Thieves' Legs The Soldier Pierces Jesus Side The veil is rent
Death, Resurrection, & Judgment 1. How many resurrections are there? 2. Was Jesus the only one resurrected 2000 years ago? 3. Will we see God as soon as we die? 4. What do we do in the Spirit World? 5. How do you picture the Final Judgment? 6. What blessings will be restored when we are resurrected? 7. What will we be judged by? 8. In what ways will we look different after we are resurrected? 9. Does cremation or organ donation complicate resurrection? 10. Who will judge us? 11. Is it normal to feel worried about the Final Judgment?
How many resurrections are there?
Was Jesus the only person to be resurrected? Matthew 27:52 53
Resurrection We have not the ordinance and the keys of the resurrection. They will be given to those who have passed off; they will be ordained by those who hold the keys of the resurrection, to go forth and resurrect the Saints just as we receive the ordinance of baptism. This is one of the ordinances we cannot receive here, and there are many more. Discourses of Brigham Young, pp. 397-398. See also Spencer W. Kimball, "Our Great Potential," in CR April 1977, pp. 69-72
Resurrection I buried my mother when I was eleven, my father when I was in my early twenties. I have missed my parents much. If I had the power of resurrection as did the Savior, I would have been tempted to try to have kept them longer. We do not know of anyone who can resurrect the dead as did Jesus. This is a power to create, to organize, to control native elements. How limited we are now! (President Spencer W. Kimball, April 1977 General Conference)
Will we see God as soon as we die? (Read Alma 40:11)
Will we see God as soon as we die? These words of Alma as I understand them, do not intend to convey the thought that all spirits go back into the presence of God. Taken home to God, simply means that their mortal existence has come to an end, and they have returned to the world of spirits. Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions, 2:84-86
What can we do in the Spirit World?
What can we do in the Spirit World? The brightness and glory of the next apartment is inexpressible. They move with ease and like lightning. If we want to visit Jerusalem, I presume we will be permitted - there we are, looking at its streets. Or if we want to see the Garden of Eden as it was when created, there we are. We may behold the earth as at the dawn of creation, or we may visit any city we please that exists upon its surface. (Discourses of Brigham Young, p.380-381)
What can we do in the Spirit World? Each release of a righteous individual from this life is also a call to new labors. Therefore, though we miss the departed righteous so much here, hundreds may feel their touch their. One day, those hundreds will thank the bereaved for gracefully forgoing the extended association with choice individuals here, in order that they could help hundreds there. (Neal A. Maxwell, Not Withstanding My Weakness, 55).
How will the final judgment work? (Alma 40:12-14)
Final Judgment On that dramatic day there can be no saving swagger no panache. Those whose grievance with God will be simply speechless. The promised day of judgment will come, and all men will be left without excuse. (D&C 101:93; Romans 1:20.). We will receive what we really chose, and none can or will question the justice or mercy of God. Neal A. Maxwell, Things As They Really Are, pp.111-113
Final Judgment In the final day, all men will stand before the bar of God in a final day of judgment. The eventual destiny of all men will have been determined before that day. Bruce R. McConkie, The Millennial Messiah, p.515
Final Judgment When he does judge us, I feel he will take all things into consideration: our genetic and chemical makeup, our mental state, our intellectual capacity, the teachings we have received, the traditions of our fathers, our health, and so forth. M. Russell Ballard, Suicide: Some Things We Know, and Some We Do Not, Ensign, Oct. 1987, p. 8
What blessings will be restored when we are resurrected? (Alma 40:16)
Resurrection Death releases a spirit for growth and development and places a body in the repair shop of Mother Earth, there to be recast, remolded into a perfect body, clean, whole, perfected, and ready for its occupant for eternity. The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, p.45
Resurrection One day loved ones whom we knew to have disabilities in mortality will stand before us glorified and grand, breathtakingly perfect in body and mind. What a thrilling moment that will be! I do not know whether we will be happier for ourselves that we have witnessed such a miracle or happier for them that they are fully perfect and finally free at last. Jeffrey R. Holland, October 2013 General Conference
What will our bodies look like? (Alma 40:18)
Resurrected Bodies President Joseph F. Smith said people will come forth "even to the wounds in the flesh. Not that a person will always be marred by scars, for these will be removed in their course, in their proper time... Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 2:293-294.
Resurrected Bodies It is true that Christ showed His wounds to the Nephites to give to them a witness of his suffering. [3 Ne 11:10-17.] These wounds have remained in his hands, side, and feet all through the centuries from the time of his crucifixion and will remain until after his Second Coming. Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation 2:290-292.
What about cremation and organ donors, etc?
The Beauty of the Resurrection It makes no difference whether a body is consumed by fire, buried in the depths of the sea, or placed in the tomb, the time will come when every essential particle will be called back again to its own place, and the individual will be reassembled with every essential part restored. Joseph Fielding Smith, Answers to Gospel Questions, 2:100
In what ways will we look different after we are resurrected? (Alma 40:25)
The Beauty of the Resurrection In both of the (lower) kingdoms there will be changes in the bodies and limitations. They will not have the power of increase, neither the power or nature to live as husbands and wives, for this will be denied them and they cannot increase. Some of the functions in the celestial body will not appear. I take it that men and women will, in these kingdoms, be merely immortal beings having received the resurrection. Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, 2:288-289
The Beauty of the Resurrection We bear the image of our earthly parents, but by the holy resurrection, we shall put on the image of the heavenly, in beauty, glory, power and goodness. Brigham Young, Discourses of Brigham Young, p.374 There is nothing grander that I can imagine than a resurrected body. Lorenzo Snow, 5 October 1900, CR, p. 4; Teachings of Lorenzo Snow, p.99 How can this doctrine affect marriage and family relationships?
What if you are worried about the Final Judgment? (Alma 41:9,14)
The Final Judgment I sat with a youngster and he was fretting. And I said, Son, all you have to worry about is that you are doing your best in the place where you are today. That is all you have to be concerned about. You are not going to be judged by how you measure to someone else. The only measure by which you are going to be measured is, How will you compare with what you had the capacity to do? The Teachings of Harold B. Lee, pp. 64-65
Doctrines of the Spirit World When a baby dies, it goes back into the spirit world, and the spirit assumes its natural form as an adult. When a child is raised in the resurrection, that spirit will enter the body and the body will be the same size as it was when the child died. It will then grow after the resurrection to full maturity. If parents are righteous, they will have their children after the resurrection. Little children who die, whose parents are not worthy of an exaltation, will be adopted into the families of those who are worthy (Joseph Fielding Smith, Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954-1956], 2:56).
Who is looking forward to the Spirit World Spirit World? Who is looking forward to the Resurrection Resurrection? Why?
