Memo #50 (Written July 1, 2004)

To: Those I Love

From: Grandpa Pratt

Re: A Buffer between the past several memos and the next~

The last four or five memos have given some explanation from the scriptures concerning how the earths current geography has been arrived at. The next two memos are going to be so much more graphic, so much more violent, so filled with destruction, as the final battle of God vs Satan rages to an end, that perhaps you would rather not read them. If such is the case just drop them in the waste basket unopened until you receive memo #55. However, our Heavenly Father has given this information to the prophets and commanded them to write it down that it might be read that all who will receive the word will be prepared for the glorious millennium which has just started, the millennium, not the glory that comes with the Savior and soon.

To understand the events taking place currently on the earth and more horrific ones to come, climaxing with the appearance of Christ, we need to answer a few questions.

1. How many choices does every person have as to whom they will follow in this mortal life? Answer: Two and two only. Either follow Christ or by default one follows Satan. There are no other choices. Let me repeat, one MUST CHOOSE to follow Christ, otherwise he automatically follows the devil whose sole goal is to have us eternally miserable as he is.

The goal Jesus Christ has for us is to become like him and be eternally happy. He has paid a terrible price to make this possible and in order to guide  us he has given us a few commandments which he summed up in just one. 

“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, might, mind and strength and the second is like unto it, thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” 

To love oneself, then, must be a reality in loving others. All love flows from God only hate comes from Lucifer.

(Note: to my single granddaughters, when you think you have found the “right one,” if his feelings toward God are indifferent, if he seems to be self centered, if he speaks disrespectfully of others and especially of his family, do not marry him for he has not the capacity to love. Paul’s instructions to husbands are: “Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it.” Eph. 5:25 Such a man, and such a man only can give you the love you are looking for.)

God created this earth for one purpose: “To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.”The earth is a living thing it too was created first as spirit and secondly as temporal. The temporal must end as all such of that order must do. It shall be cleansed and it will be a new earth and even the heavens will be new and it is at this time that the Saviors words will be fulfilled, “Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth,” to live on it eternally with him. In other words it will be the heaven that the spiritually sick and dead talk about, but for the most part don’t believe, and wont inherit. The meek will inherit all that the Father has to give. On this glorified world they will be as he is and will do as he does.

Those who have not obeyed the “love” commandment will spend eternity on some other globe, prepared, to provide them with all that they are willing to receive.

Our Father in Heaven loves each one of us and is determined to save each no matter how 

hard they resist his saving grace even if he has to remove them from this earth by violent means to get them out of Satan's grasp.

When the judgement is finished at the end of this millennium, our Father through his Son Jesus, will have saved every sole in some kind of heaven for it says every head will bow and every knee will bend to him who made it all possible, but even then a few will persist in their foolish, stubborn ways and will defect over to Satan thereby becoming Sons of Perdition. And will be cast out with him and his hosts to be miserable forever. Their place of residence eternally has such descriptive names as, “outer darkness” (remember God is the source of all light)  also called Hell and Hades. (None of you will meet this terrible fate.) Hell is likened to a lake of fire and brimstone. Those who end up there will weep, wail, and gnash their teeth. (Note: brimstone is sulphur, we used to buy it in drugstores to fumigate our houses. Strike a mathch to it and it burns readily with a bluish intense heat, difficult to extinguish. In the early days of orchards some 75 years ago we sparyed the fruit trees with lime and sulphur. We could only do it in early spring while the trees were still dormant for it would burn the foliage up and by the end of the day you were on fire even tho we liberally covered exposed skin with vaseline. And those who did not take proper percautions would often have the flesh eaten away so that the white bone showed.) So the comparison accurately portrays the eternal unhappiness of the dammed souls.

Alma cried out, and I feel the same way: “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. 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.” Alma 29:1-2

Yes the gospel of love is the only answer, for the highest heaven or Celestial will need no police, armies etc for each citizen there will be Self Governing ~ they will love their neighbor as their self and they will love God. They will dwell in family units and will expand eternally. 

The lower heavens of Terrestrial, and Telestial will be somewhat like a baby’s playpen and they will be confined to their areas by the element that their ressurrected body is adapted to live in and worlds without end they can not change it. They will have a degree of happiness and will progress and rejoice forever so a loving Father and Son will finally bring every soul safely home to some kind of eternal peace and joy. But one of their big regrets is they will have no companion, no children.

As I said in the beginning if you do not want to know of the terrible judgements that have already started and will reach a peak and that very soon just put the next 4 memos in the waste basket unopened. 

But I must say that they are some of the greatest signs we have of the closeness of his coming, and your faith to survive will increase as you watch the unfolding of the prophets in great detail concerning that which will cleanse all filth from the earth. You will literrally witness selective destruction as the wickend perish and the faithful survive. We live in exciting times.

Be prepared and not afraid. 

Love,

Dad, brother, Uncle, Grandpa Pratt

Memo #49 (Written June 1, 2004)

To: Those I love

From: Grandpa Pratt

Re: The Second Coming (Wickedness alters the earth)

The earth, beautiful and inhabitable from pole to pole as described in memo 47 was soon to start a change due to the sins of the people until it has reached its current stage of mostly wasteland and water. The first recorded change, that I can find, happened about 800 years after the fall of Adam. (He was still alive for he lived to be 930 years.)

In spite of Adam and Eve’s teachings, their children for the most part had cast God out of their lives. Their fourth great grandson, Enoch, was called and ordained by Adam to proclaim the gospel and to save all who would listen.“And so great was the faith of Enoch that he led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled and the mountains fled, even according to his command; and the rivers of water were turned out of their course and the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch...there also came up a land out of the depth of the seas and so great was the fear of the enemies of the people of God, that they fled and went upon the land which came up out of the depth of the sea. Moses 7: 13-14

Enoch gathered the believers into a great city and its surround farms and villages and then about fire years before the birth of Enoch’s grandson, Noah, his city of holiness called Zion, was wrenched from this earth and taken to another to await the second coming of the Lord, then they will return to this earth. This was the second major change in the earth’s surface and was the step taken by God to save, all who would obey, from the flood that engulfed the whole earth 600 years later.

The world denies that there was a flood, saying that a loving God would not do such a thing to his children. But if they would read the scriptures they would find that the earth had to be baptized and cleansed of all the filth brought on by its inhabitants. Not one soul needed to drown! Not all the saints were taken up with Enoch. His son Methuselah, the oldest recorded living man and his son Lamek continued on as preachers for righteousness. They were joined by Lameck’s son Noah who was born five years after Zion fled. Methuselah lived 969 years and died the year of the flood. His son, Lameck lived 777 years and died five years before the flood. Noah was 600 years old when the flood occurred and lived 350 years after.

These men and others, such as Noah’s three sons, warned the wold of the impending flood. “ and the Lord ordained Noah...to declare his gospel, even as it was given unto Enoch...Noah continued his preaching...believe and repent of your sins and be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ, the son of God, even as our fathers, and ye shall receive the Holy Ghost...

And if ye do not this, the floods will come in upon you; nevertheless they hearkened not.”

Moses 8:19-25. but there were some that believed. “ ”For angels descended out of heaven, bearing testimony of the Father and the Son, and the Holy Ghost fell on many, (those that had believed) and they were caught up by the powers of Heaven to join the people of Enoch,” 

Moses 7: 27 

Finally there were only eight believing souls left, Noah, three sons, and their wives. “And God said unto Noah: The end of all flesh is come before me. For the earth is filled with violence, and behold I will destroy all flesh from off the earth.” Moses 8:30 NO ONE NEEDED TO DIE IN THE FLOOD ~ NO ONE NEEDS TO DIE IN THE BURNING AT THE SECOND COMING! But most will because they have ears to hear but they won’t listen.

Don’t be one of them!

The whole earth would have been changed by the flood and geological changes that supposedly took millions of years could and did happen during the years the flood lasted and a few years after as the excess water sought the lowest level.

There are other changes mentioned in the scriptures but I only have room for one more. The full account is found in third Nephi chapters 1-11 and especially 8-10

Matthew briefly mentions: “The veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks rent.” Matt. 27:51

but in the Americas where they had the gospel and then turned God out of their lives the destruction and changing of the earth was horrific, and note   “If it were not for the righteous who are in this great city, behold, I would cause the fire should come down out of heaven and destroy it.” Hel. 13:13

Samuel prophesied of America, “There shall be thundering and lightings... the earth shall shake...the rocks which ye know at this time shall be rent in twain, and shall ever after be found in seams and cracks, and in broken fragments upon the face of the whole earth, yea, both above the earth and beneath...there shall be great tempests, many mountains shall be laid low like unto valley and there shall be many places which are now called valleys which shall become mountains, whose height is great.” Hel. 14:21-31. And all this happened in the Americas during the three hours of the crucifixion. But the world says it took millions if not billions of years.

Now Third Nephi: “Tempest, earthquakes, fires, whirlwinds and upheavals attest the crucifixion of Christ.”.....a great storm, such an one as never had been known in all the land...the whole earth did shake as if it was about to divide asunder...the city of Moroni did sink into the depths of the sea...earth covered the city of Moronihah, that in the place of the city there became a great mountain “Note: “tempest, miners in Mexico have discovered a city 2000 feet below the surface.) Many cities were sunk...many people were carried away in whirl winds etc. and all this did last for about the space of three hours... and it came to pass that there was thick darkness... ante there could be no light....and the devil laugheth and his angels rejoice. And a voice spoke saying, “Oh all ye that are spared because ye were more righteous than they, will ye not now return unto me, and repent of your sins, and be converted, tht I may heal you. Behold,, mine arm of mercy is extended towards you, and whosoever will come, him will I receive; and blessed are those who come unto me, behold I am Jesus Christ the Son of God.” 3 Nephi 9-15

Jesus Christ lives and he extended the same love to each one of us. I testify of him with all of my heart. Seek him and you will find HIM. Learn HIS ways and rejoice in the peace they bring into your life 

Love, 

Dad, Grandpa etc. Richard Marden Pratt

Memo #48 (written May 1, 2004)

To: Those I love
From: Grandpa Pratt
Re: The Second Coming

    “No man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.” 
Eccl. 3:11. Behold, great and marvelous are the works of the Lord. How unsearchable are the depths of the mysteries of him; and it is impossible that man should find out all his ways. And no man knoweth of his ways save it be revealed unto him; wherefore, brethren, despise not the revelations of God.
    For behold, by the power of his word man came upon the face of the earth, which earth was created by the power of his word. Wherefore, if God being able to speak and the world was, and to speak and man was created, o then, why not able to command the earth, or the workmanship of his hands upon the face of it, according to his will and pleasure?” Jacob 4: 8-9
    Now for a few things that we do know: Adam and Eve were the first people on the earth. (THERE WERE NO PRE ADAMITES.)  They were not yet mortals. For mortality is a serious and dangerous business. But it is the only way we can gain a body of flesh, which can reproduce itself, for spirit bodies cannot. So god gave Adam the choice of remaining in the Garden of Eden forever, which would have frustrated the whole plan or take into his body that which would trigger mortality and death. Note: physical death is separation of Spirit from the fleshly body.
    Eve had already eaten, whatever it was and would soon be cast out and die. Adam perceiving this CHOSE TO FOLLOW HER. That’s love! “Adam was not deceived, but the women being deceived was in the transgression 1 Tim. 2:14 and “Adam fell that men might be;
and men are that they might have joy. (men often refers to both men and women) 2 Ne. 2:25So, be grateful to them both, but more especially to Mother Eve. For had they not elected death and birth we would still be in the Spirit world begging our Heavenly Father to replace them with someone who would get the job done. Notice: they were married by God while still immortal and in as much as God does nothing save it be forever, their marriage was the first eternal one performed on this earth.
    Not only did they bring death and birth on themselves, but also on all life including the earth itself. And lowered the earth from a Terrestrial stage, or paradise, (where all things which were created must have remained in the same state in which they were after they were created. And they must have remained forever and had no end and they would have had no children; wherefore they would have remained in a state of innocence having no joy, for they knew no misery; doing no good, for they knew no sin. 2 Ne. 2:22-23) to a Telestial stage where Satan could tempt us, try us, and prove whom we would follow. Violence and evil became the lot of man and animal.
    Adam and Eve, of course, began to have a family, and their grown sons and daughters paired off and started families. A veil had been drawn over their minds so that they remembered little of their former life. The earth was also cursed for their sake. In other words the cursing was a blessing; now man would have to work and struggle which would produce growth and happiness and satisfaction in their achievements. How grateful I am for work!
    Because Cain and Abel are the first of their children named, we get the idea that they were the first of their family. BUT TIS NOT SO. A careful reading shows that Adam and Eve were 
over 100 years old when Cain was born, then Abel, and it specifically mentions that Adam was 130 when Seth, who replaced Abel as heir, was born. Note: Yes, before the flood they lived into the 10th century and would have had children for the first several hundred years of their life. Noah is mentioned as to age and he was 450 years old when Japheth was born, and 492 at the birth of Shem, and when he was 500 years old Ham was born, Moses 8:12, Gen. 5:32
    and Adam and Eve called upon the Lord, and they heard the voice of the Lord.....and he gave unto them commandments. And they were obedient...an angel appeared unto Adam and Eve and taught them of the Savior and his great redeeming sacrifice that thru obedience they could return home clothed with a resurrected body and blessed with an eternal companion. Adam was commanded “thou shalt do all that thou doest in THE NAME OF THE SON, and thou shalt repent and call upon God in the name of the Son forevermore. And the Holy Ghost fell upon Adam, which beareth record of the Father and the Son, saying: I am the only Begotten of the Father from the beginning, henceforth, and forever, that as thou hast fallen thou mayest be redeemed, and all mankind, even as many as will. 
    And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, (with the Holy Ghost) and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.
    And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the Eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.
    They made all this wonderful news known to their then existing family and they refused to accept it. “And thus the Gospel began to be preached, from the beginning.” Moses ch. 5
    and Adam was baptized by the Spirit of the Lord and with the Holy Ghost and given the Priesthood whereby he would have baptized Eve and any believing children. Behold, thou art one in me, a son of God; and thus may all become my sons.” Moses 6:64-68
    the rest of the earth was corrupt before God, and it was filled with violence. And God looked upon the earth, and behold, it was corrupt, for all flesh had corrupted its way upon the earth.
    And God said unto Noah: the end of all flesh is come before me, for the earth is filled with violence, and behold I will destroy all flesh from off the earth.
    Doesn’t this sound familiar today? Isn’t the whole earth filled with violence? Look around and see the necessity of a loving Father stepping in to stop it all.

I plead with you and pray for you that you will find where you are in the plan of our Father in Heaven. Honor HIM by living it. ......continued next month

                        Love,
                        Dad, Grandpa, brother, friend
                        Richard M. Pratt

Poem by Dawn Alta Pratt Taylor written for Dad's 92nd birthday  (We just past what would be his 104th birthday!

Generation Stones

Faces from the past look out from frames and smile,

Album pages full of legacy worthwhile.

His jaw looks just like Daddy's her eyes are my eyes too.

There heritage and history wrapped up in me and you.

Work ethics from my Grandpa and humor from Grandma.

Singing from dear Auntie and values from Ma and Pa.

Lives' stories eked in sweat and tears pave a path for me ~

boosting, helping me to become all that I can be!

Memo #47 (Written April 1, 2004)

To: Those I love

From: Grandpa Pratt

Re: The Second Coming (continued)

“A new heaven and a new earth are promised by the sacred writers. Or, in other words, the planetary systems are to be changed, purified, refined, exalted, and glorified, in the similitude of the resurrection, by which means all physical evil or imperfection will be done away.” 

Parley P. Pratt

The first step towards this glorified perfection will be at the Saviors appearance when the earth will be renewed as it was in the morning of the creation and the first couple was placed thereon. This step is imminent and the scriptures testify that it will happen sometime in the beginning of this millennium which has just started. So it could and should and will happen in the lifetime of the current generation.

The final step in its perfection will be at the end of this millennium when it will become a Celestial globe and the meek will inherit it.

So the question now is: “What was the earth like when the first inhabitants took up housekeeping there on?” When a prophet speaks of the restoration of all things, he means that all things have undergone a change and are to be again restored to their primitive order, even as they first existed.

When God had created the heavens and the earth, and separated the light from the darkness, his next great command was to the waters. “And God said, let the waters under the heaven be gathered together unto one place, and let the dry land appear: and it was so. Gen. 1:9

“From this we learn a marvelous fact which very few have realized or believed in this benighted age: we learn that the waters, which are now divided into oceans, seas and lakes, were then all gathered into one vast ocean and consequently, that the land which is now torn asunder and divided into continents and islands almost innumerable was then one vast continent or body, not separated as it now is.

Second, we hear the Lord God pronounce the earth, as well as everything else, very good. From this we learn that there were neither deserts, barren places, stagnant swamps, rough, broken, ragged hills, nor vast mountains covered with eternal snow; and no part of it was located in the frigid zone so as to render its climate dreary and unproductive, subject to eternal frost or everlasting chains of ice. 

The whole earth was probably one vast plain, or interspersed with gently rising hills and sloping vales, well calculated for cultivation; still its climate was delightfully varied, with the moderate changes of heat and cold, of wet and dry, which only tended to crown the varied year with the greater variety of productions, all for the good of man, animal, fowl or creeping thing; all the vast creation of animated beings breathed naught but health, and peace and joy. “ Neither sigh nor groan was heard through out the vast expanse; neither were there sorrow, fear, pain, weeping, sickness, nor death; neither contentions, wars, nor bloodshed; but peace crowned the seasons as they rolled forth, and life, joy and love reigned over all God’s works. But oh how changed the scene!” “Voice of Warning”  page 84 Parley P. Pratt

      Of all the earths surface only a small portion remains fairly unchanged. We served a mission in Iowa. The most beautiful of the 50 states equaled only by the surrounding states and matches the early creation except for the weather.

The Garden of Eden was located where Independence, Missouri now is and when Adam and Eve were driven out they moved about 70 miles North to a valley called Adam-an-Diahman meaning the place where Adam dwelt. But other than the surfaces of the central states, all else has been changed until 71% of the earth is now covered with three major oceans and their connecting salt seas such as the vast Mediterranean and Arctic and Antarctic. Another 29% is vast desolate deserts and huge space of wasteful mountains, swamps and rivers and fresh water lakes. It is claimed that only 6% of the earth currently is inhabitable and even some of it is barely so. For one thing the climate becomes so increasingly harsh beyond the 45th meridian North or South of the Equator that one wonders why people live there at all. I’ve experienced cold -40* and it’s anything but pleasant.

Yet there is ample evidence that the Poles once enjoyed semi tropical weather. North of the arctic circle, through Alaska and Siberia, in the past two hundred years more than 30,000 mammoths and other large animals have been found frozen solid and in such perfect preservation that the flesh could be eaten. In fact when I was a young man a Fairbanks restaurant featured mammoth steaks on its menu. Furthermore the contents of their stomachs revealed that they had feasted on plants of a semi tropical nature. Some even had unswallowed plant growth in their mouths. And while the findings of animal life in the Antarctic has not been as prolific. Still they are found along with plant life. Just recently a large tree, still standing erect with leaves on it was fond frozen solid in the ice.

What changed all this? Wickedness! The earth reeled to and fro like a drunken man; the great flood, earthquakes and other natural or unnatural storms of violence were triggered by sin.

The flood, probably, more than any other phenomena would have changed the entire earths surface and then about 200 years after the flood: the Bible simply states; “In the days of Peleg was the earth divided (Gen. 10:25) into its present ocean and continents with some great changes 2000 years later at the death of the Savior which will be covered in our next memo.

Interestingly, our sun now spins on its axis 23 ½ degrees from perpendicular, some what like a kids top as it loses speed. This gives us our polar ice caps and harsh seasons. Could it be when the earth reels to and fro like a drunken man it will again spin upright and dispel the arctics????

To be continued next month! 

D. & C. 90:24 “Search diligently pray always and be believing and all things shall work together for your good, if ye walk uprightly and remember the covenant wherewith ye have covenanted one with another.

I LOVE each one of you!

Grandpa, Dad, brother, friend 

                         Richard Marden Pratt

Memo #46 (Written March 1, 2004)

Memo #46 

March 1, 2004

To: Those I love

From: Grandpa Pratt

Re: The Second Coming (continued)

Those who support the false theories mentioned in last months memo #45 must of necessity attack revelation and any communication coming from God or forsake their theories.

The word of the Lord through his servants the prophets is the only safe guide that man, any man, and all men have it. Or as Lehi taught, “If there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.” 2 Nephi 2:14

“But there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth (yes even billions of earth like unto this) and all things that in them are, both things to act (man) and things to be acted upon.” 2 Nephi 2:14

Literally there were two creations:

1. Spiritual Creation: “Every plant of the field BEFORE it as in the earth, every herb of the field before it grew....and there was not a man to till the ground. Genesis 2:5

2. Temporal (temporary) or mortal creation. When the Father announced, a great

council held in heaven, the creation of an earth on which we might dwell, receive a house or body for our spirit and select an eternal companion and form an eternal family; we, and we were all there, sang and shouted for joy. Job 38:7 Naturally, the mortal body is created after the likeness of the spirit. You, and I mean you who are reading this, look like your spirit, and your spotted dog looks like his spirit. Oh you may be larger or smaller but you’ll still look like you.

The brother of Jared saw the finger of the Lord “and it was as the finger of a man, like unto flesh and blood...and he fell down from fear...  “I feared lest he should smite me for I knew not that the Lord had flesh and blood...the Lord showed himself unto him...Behold, this body, which ye now behold, is the body of my Spirit; and even as I appear unto thee in the spirit will I appear unto my people int eh flesh.” Ether 3:6-17 This happened nearly 2000 years B.C.

The thought comes to me that the two creations might be likened to an automobile. The power of the auto, that which give it life is the motor (which is out of sight as is our spirit) and the body of the car represents our physical body. In fact when the motor won’t run, we say , “the car is dead.”

At this great heavenly council, the Father announced that the “first born” of all spirits, even Jehovah (known to us as Jesus Christ) would be in total command and supervise the creation of a mortal estate and would be the Savior there of. In fact his mortal name is a transliteration of two Greek words Jesus and Christo. Jesus in English means Savior and Christo equals anointed or appointed. Or as Paul often writes, “Christ Jesus” which means literally “the Appointed Savior.” 

At this council, the anointed commander stood in the midst of many souls that were good. YOU WERE THERE! And he said, “These I will make my rulers; for he stood among those that were spirits, and he saw that they were good...and he said unto those who were with him: 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. And we will prove them herewith, to see if they will do all things whatsoever the Lord their God shall command them.” Abraham 3:23-25; Deut. 32:7-8, Acts 17:24-26 (NOTE: there is no end to space to buid nor of materials to build new earths with.) 

Of those who assisted in the creation I think of two who are named. 1. “Abraham, thou are one of them.” there were probably more! Michael, the archangel at the finish of the creation became Adam, the first man and the first flesh or mortal upon the new earth. (Note Arch means first and it follows naturally that as the first man, Adam would also be the first angel for an angel is a resurrected man and Adam would have been the first person resurrected after the Savior and would have been in the group of those resurrected souls recorded in Matthew 27:52 “And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose.” 

“And the Lord God, had created all the children of men; and not yet a man to till the ground; for in heaven created I them; and there was not yet flesh upon the earth, neither in the water neither in the air. Moses 3:5"

“And the Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden...and out of the ground made the Lord God to grow every there that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food.” Gen. 2:8-9

“Hmmm,,” I wonder where he got the seeds and plants to start vegetation on this earth? Could it be that he brought them from an older planet? And what about the animal life? It simply states that out of the ground the Lord God formed every beast of the field, and every fowl of the air. Gen. 2:19 and man also was formed out of the dust of the ground. Gen 2-7

Now were they formed? Why say the prophets the same way God always forms things which is the simple act of bringing together male and female of the same species. This all seed, all life, was brought from an already stocked and thriving planet.

Preposterous say thou! Not when we consider that puny man has placed men on the moon and is even now planning how to go farther into space. But God controls the space and traverses it far faster than the speed of light (186,000 miles per second) on man’s journey to the moon, peak speed reached about 20,000 miles per hour. Slow, huh? And the scriptures relate at least two accounts fo people being taken from this earth to reside on other earths until the restitution of all things. The people of Enoch before the flood were translated ~ incidentally no one needed to drown in that deluge as all could have been with Enoch. And with his people was a good sized chunk of our present earth with all their homes, fields etc. they will return!

The second people was the city of Salem under King Melchizedek, but only the people were translated, for Abraham offered as a sacrifice on the Salem City site where modern Jerusalem now is. (“Translation” an exciting subject perhaps I’ll write about it when trough with Creation.)

TO BE CONTINUED! 

I loved you!

Grandpa, Dad, uncle, friend (you choose) 

POST it note from typist:

Grandpa has been writing and studying and has memos ready clear up and past December of this year! Stories and ideas are flowing onto paper and you might ask why? I know why. It is his deep and abiding LOVE for the Gospel of Jesus Christ which is centered in family! His love for yo and I is eternal and his knowledge and wisdom are a boon to me personally. I am sure we all benefit form his prayers on our behalf. Those who come to lift his spirits are the ones lifted when they leave. He would ask us to search, ponder and pray and know for ourselves that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is TRUE. We can know just like he does if we apply ourselves.