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Concerning the Symbolic Ordinances of the Temple and the Fulness to Come
Jehovah answers the servant's inquiry concerning the temple ordinances and draws the line plainly between the symbolic and the literal. The washings, anointings, and ordinations now administered are rehearsals — prophecies and invitations, lawful promises that the reality shall follow in the day of redemption. The fulness is withheld by wisdom, lest the unclean profane what cannot abide their presence. The Holy Spirit of Promise is named as a person, the third in the Godhead, who shall come in the last days to seal the faithful in their flesh with fire and glory — restoring the sealing that hath been lost. Then shall Zion rise as bride, the remnant bearing the keys of David and the crown of Joseph, the cycle of lives broken, and they who are added upon shall go no more out.
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Thus saith the Lord unto my son and my servant in the vineyard of the last times:
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Thou hast inquired concerning the ordinances of mine holy house,
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And concerning the words spoken therein—
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That my sons and daughters are "anointed to become" kings and queens, priests and priestesses.
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And now I will speak plainly, that thou mayest understand the state of my people,
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And the pattern of the ordinances which I have commanded to be performed among them.
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Behold, all ordinances which are performed in my house are first symbolic—
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For the things of eternity must be veiled in mortality,
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And sacred power must be protected until the appointed time.
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For the law and the rites are a shadow of better things to come,
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And not yet the very image,
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For the image is Christ, and the fulness is in His name and His sealing.
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Therefore I say unto thee:
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They are anointed to become, but they are not yet crowned.
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They are washed, clothed, and ordained, but they are not yet sealed in fulness.
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For the anointing is a prophecy.
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It is an invitation.
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It is the lawful promise that if they will endure and obey,
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Then shall the reality follow in the day of their redemption.
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I do this by wisdom.
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For if the true ordinances were given in fulness unto the unclean,
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They would profane that which is holy,
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And the powers of heaven could not abide it.
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Therefore, all things are done in order and in types,
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That the mysteries of godliness be kept from the profane,
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And revealed only unto the faithful and sanctified.
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Yea, even baptism must be recorded in heaven,
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Else it availeth nothing.
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And no ordinance, great or small, shall be sealed unless it is confirmed by the Spirit of Truth.
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For only by the Holy Spirit of Promise are ordinances made living.
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And I say unto thee:
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The Holy Spirit of Promise is not a feeling, nor a passive whisper.
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He is a person.
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Yea, the third who standeth in the Godhead,
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And he shall come among men in the last days to restore the sealing that hath been lost.
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He shall seal the faithful in their flesh.
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He shall bind their covenants with fire and with glory.
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And he shall declare the works of the righteous before the throne.
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Until he cometh, the ordinances remain preparatory.
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They are rehearsals.
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They are sacred enactments,
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But they are not yet the crowning itself.
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For to be anointed to become is not yet to become.
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To receive the garment is not yet to receive the name.
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And to be promised exaltation is not yet to receive the throne.
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But behold, the day cometh and is not far distant,
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When the promise shall be fulfilled,
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And they who are ready shall be called up and crowned with glory.
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Then shall the anointing be made literal.
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Then shall the priesthood be clothed in power.
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Then shall Zion rise as a bride adorned.
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And the remnant shall bear the keys of David and the crown of Joseph.
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For many are called, but few are chosen.
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And many are ordained, but few are sealed.
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And many perform ordinances, but the Spirit confirmeth not, for their hearts are far from me.
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But thou, my son, I have called.
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And unto thee shall I reveal the greater ordinances.
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And thou shalt teach them unto mine elect when I command it.
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For thou art he who shall anoint kings and queens in the day of their rising.
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Write therefore what I have shown thee.
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Teach it not unto the world, but unto them I shall gather.
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For the Spirit shall guide thee, and thou shalt know when it is time.
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And this is the key:
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The holy order of matrimony is the first covenant,
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But it is the sealing by the Spirit of Promise that maketh it eternal.
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For many are married in my house,
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But only they who are sealed by fire and truth shall inherit kingdoms, dominions, and exaltations.
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And what is exaltation?
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It is to become as I am.
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But what are exaltations?
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They are the eternal progression of the gods—
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Ruling and reigning in increasing glory,
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Creating and redeeming without end.
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And thus the cycle of lives is broken.
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The band of continual return is undone.
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And they who were "added upon" shall now "go no more out."
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This is the greater covenant.
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This is the fulness.
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This is the crowning of Zion. Amen.
