Published on blog December 1, 2012
From: Grandpa Richard M. Pratt
To: All Pratt family adults and selected others
Re: Blueprints and Plans
Jesus, being the Creator of
heaven and earth and all things that in them are, must have had plans,
schedules, and reasons for such a vast organization and a purpose. He
did! Again I remind all readers that space will allow me only to state facts. I
know what I write is true, believe it. I will confine my remarks to this earth.
(There are many earths.)
Abraham (about 400 years after the
flood) saw all the spirits that were prepared and anxiously awaiting a chance
to live on this mortal earth. And God said, “We will go down, for there is
space there, and we will take of these materials, and we will make an earth
whereon these may dwell.” Abraham 3:22-23
When the plan for a new earth
was announced, we spirits sang and shouted for joy!
Job 38:7 Why? Because we had progressed as far as we could
in the spirit estate and were anxious to get on with our eternal lives. In
order to do so we had to go to a mortal earth, a very dangerous place, for
there we would receive the necessary body of flesh and bones and meet both good
and evil and have to make choices and receive the consequences. Good
choices bring happy consequences and bad choices bring misery and sorrow.
Knowing how many spirits would live
on this earth, God knew how big to make it and how many resources to put on it.
He said, “I’ve made enough and to spare if men would just love one another and
develop their talents and share with each other.” Now, we are not running out
of space or resources. There is more than enough because time wise the earth’s
mortal span is rapidly nearing its end. Yes, the earth too will die and
be resurrected and become a fit abode for all those who accepted Jesus as their
Savior. The earth’s mortal life is to last 7,000 years from the Fall of
Adam (He became mortal about 4000 BC). So we are at the end of that time of
6000 years. (PS the next month Dad put a paragraph to add onto this one as
follows): A little more clarification, at the end of the 6000 years (which is
now and or shortly thereafter) in the beginning of the 7000 years Christ will
come in power and glory to reign personally on the earth for a 1000 years.
Which will be to the end of the 7000 years. Then the earth dies and is
resurrected and becomes the eternal home of the Saints.
God does not do anything without
revealing his plans to his Prophets. (See Amos 3:7). At the beginning of the
7000 years or shortly thereafter, the earth will be ushered into its next stage
of development called The Paradisiacal Glory. Jesus will reign
personally upon the earth after cleansing it with fire. All that is filthy
and vile along with their perpetrator will be swept off the earth. ( Article of
Faith #10: “We believe in the literal gathering of Israel and in the
restoration of the Ten Tribes; that Zion (the New Jerusalem) will be built upon
the American continent; that Christ will reign personally upon the earth; and,
that the earth will be renewed and receive its paradisiacal glory.”).
The Prophet Isaiah spoke of this
event 3000 years ago... “the earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof,
because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinances, and broken
the everlasting covenant. Therefore hath the curse (disobedience) devoured
the earth and they that dwell therein are desolate. Therefore the inhabitants
of the earth are burned and few men left.” Isaiah 24:5-6
~ 2 ~ this will be
the time when the Savior’s statement, “Blessed are the meek (obedient)
for they will inherit the earth.” shall come to pass. The second reason
we were so happy to get a mortal body is procreation which is the power to have
children. Spirits cannot beget offspring.
And even a healthy mortal body, as you all know, only enjoys
this great power of God to literally “create” for a short span of time, on the
average from the early teens to med life and then it is gone. Gone forever,
except for those few who, having been obedient in all things, will have it
restored in the resurrection and thus may continue as families forever.
There is no other way!
Now thankfully, that person
who repents and covenants to follow Jesus in all things, tho they are 15, 50 or
90 years old (or any other age), and keep their promises to God, receive all
that the Father has to give. I urge you all to examine your life style,
and make any adjustments, if needed, to bring it into harmony with God’s great
plan which is “to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” Moses
1:32 That phrase, “eternal life” means eternal families. All others, after the
resurrection, will be separate and single with no “roots (ancestors) nor
branches (descendants)”. How dreary!
We are living in the “great and
dreadful day of the coming of the Lord.” It will be a great day for the
righteous. This includes any decent person regardless of their religion. It
will be a dreadful day for the vile, the evil, the violent and those who have
perverted their sex.
All the many prophecies from Adam
to now have been fulfilled or are in process of being fulfilled. We, then, with
absolute assurance can expect the rest to happen. What is prophecy? It is
History reversed!
Here is what you can expect to
happen to the world in your lifetime: Keep your eyes on the Jews.
They will continue to gather from all over the world to Palestine as
prophesied. They have a bright future. After suffering terribly for 2000 years
for crucifying their Savior, their sorrows are about over. They have one more
travail to pass through.
The nations of the world (204 at
the last count) are going to give up their liberty to a one World Government,
excepting Palestine. Then these combined nations will blame the Jews for
all their troubles, including World War II, and will attack Palestine bent on
utterly destroying them...called Armageddon.
Earthquakes, tornadoes and all
forms of violent disturbances of nature will increase in number and
violence to destruction as the Lord pleads for His children to turn to Him and
be healed.
Finally as the Jews are on the
verge of total destruction, the Lord will descend from Heaven with a shout
of heavenly hosts, with the sound of many trumpets and he will alight on the
Mount of Olives. But before He touches down, the graves of the righteous
will give up their bodies in the first resurrection and the living
righteous, together with the resurrected will meet the Lord in the air. The
wicked will perish at the Lord’s presence. Peace will be restored, the
Jews and all decent people saved. The
1000 year millennium will be started, and Christ will reign
personally on the earth. (10th article of Faith)
See you there,
Grandpa
How can I know for myself that Grandpa is not speaking
with a forked tongue!...
“And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you
that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ,
if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, ~ 3 ~
with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest
the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. And by the power of
the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.
.... And I exhort you to remember these things; for the time
speedily cometh that ye shall know that I lie not, for ye shall see me at the
bar of God; and the Lord God will say unto you: Did I not declare my words unto
you, which were written by this man, like as one crying from the dead, yea,
even as one speaking out of the dust?
..... I declare these things unto the fulfilling of the
prophecies. And behold, they shall proceed forth out of the mouth of the
everlasting God; and his word shall hiss forth from generation to generation.
..... And God shall show unto you, that that which I
have written is true.”
Moroni 10:4-5, 27-29
Second testimony (excerpt from Carolyn’s tribute to
Mother Adaline)
In spite of failing eyesight and
poor health in latter life, Mother continued to share a powerful testimony of
our Savior, Jesus Christ, to all who would listen. She also often testified of
the incredible power of prayer. She knows that families can be together forever!
One of her poems says, “I should
be about the work
To save the world from sin.
In patient suffering.
Doors open wide, You’ll testify
Your faith shall waiver not....”
February 27, 1966 Dad and Mom wrote a six page letter to
their children. I want to include the final page of that special letter
here.
“My dear wife, the mother of our
children, the queen of our home who stands in my affections next to Deity who
made it possible for us to be eternal sweethearts has read what has preceded
this. She wholeheartedly endorses it all and because we have actually achieved
that oneness that God intended a man and wife to have the rest of this
testimony is written as if we both had the pen in our hand.”
Dear ones may we seal this by
bearing you our testimony. The Doctrine and Covenants 46:13-14 says, “To
some it is given by the Holy Ghost to know that Jesus Christ is the Son of God,
and that He was crucified for the sins of the world.” we are among those who
have received this priceless gift. We know that this is true and that Christ
will save us from our sins if we continue faithful and all others who obey His
commandments. But when we keep not the commandments there is no promise.
Verse 14 says, “to others it is given to believe on their words, that they also
might have eternal life if they continue faithful.”
If you do not know; if you
cannot say that you know that Jesus is the Christ the redeemer of the world
then believe on our words FOR WE KNOW THE GOSPEL IS TRUE! And together we
will have eternal life. Oh! Put your house in order; live all the commandments.
We are living in the last hour of the last day. “Soon the night will come, the
harvest will be over,” and our souls may not be saved. How we mourn as we think
of the possibility of some one we love dearly to be for ever miserable and
subject to the Evil one because they had used this moment on earth for the vain
and transitory; for the fleeting things of mortality.
WE KNOW THAT GOD LIVES, THAT
JESUS IS THE CHRIST, THAT THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTERDAY SAINTS IS HIS
CHURCH! And there is no hopes of salvation or happiness here or hereafter
in any other way than by following the path that the Savior has so plainly
marked out. We know that President David O. McKay is a true and living Prophet
(Remember this is 1966 Dad and Mom always embraced and loved each succeeding
prophet! Our Prophet today is: Thomas S. Monson)
Our brothers, our sisters, our
sons, our daughters, our grandchildren or anyone who may chance to read this, if
you are not now in tune with God check to see where you need to improve and
repent before it is everlastingly too late.
With all the earnestness of
our souls we bear witness that this that has been written is true. We live for
it. We would die for it. May we meet in the eternities and rejoice together as
we are welcomed back into the presence of our Celestial Parents. We love you
with all our hearts, yes even generations yet unborn. We pray for you
and we will continue these prayers after we are dead. For the dead pray for us
probably even more earnestly than we pray for ourselves. And our prayers are
that none of us will be lost. But it is up to US (each of us) to make it
possible for God to answer these prayers. Oh that we could spend a few days
with each of you with the avowed purpose to find God and thrill with you as we
earnestly sought the sanctification of the Holy Spirit. Read Alma chapter 29.
This expresses our feelings.
With all our love, Father, Mother,
brother, sister etc.
Richard Marden Pratt and Adaline
Kearl Pratt
Alma 29
1 “O that I were
an angel, and could have the wish of mine heart, that I might go forth and
speak with the trump of God, with a voice to shake the earth, and cry
repentance unto every people!
2 Yea, I would declare unto every soul, as with the voice
of thunder, repentance and the plan of redemption, that they should repent and
come unto our God, that there might not be more sorrow upon all the face of the
earth.....
5 Yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all
men; he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that knoweth good
and evil, to him it is given according to his desires, whether he desireth good
or evil, life or death, joy or remorse of conscience....
9 I know that which the Lord hath commanded me, and I glory
in it. I do not glory of myself, but I glory in that which the Lord hath
commanded me; yea, and this is my glory, that perhaps I may be an instrument in
the hands of God to bring some soul to repentance; and this is my joy.
10 And behold, when I see many of my brethren truly
penitent, and coming to the Lord their God, then is my soul filled with joy;
then do I remember what the Lord has done for me, yea, even that he hath heard
my prayer; yea, then do I remember his merciful arm which he extended towards
me.....
17 And now may God grant unto these, my brethren, that they
may sit down in the kingdom of God; yea, and also all those who are the fruit
of their labors that they may go no more out, but that they may praise him
forever. And may God grant that it may be done according to my words, even as I
have spoken. Amen.”
