THE FIRST
APPEARING:
“A God is
coming to earth to dwell as a mortal among men. His mission: to do that which
he alone can do; to work out the infinite and eternal atonement and bring to
pass the immortality and eternal life of the offspring of the Father on worlds
without number; to do that which never again, in an eternity of time, shall
ever occur among the mortals who dwell on this or any of the numberless earths
of their creating.
“A God is
coming to earth. He is to be sired by an Immortal Father, to be conceived in a
mortal womb, to be born in Bethlehem, to be cradled in a manger, to be the
natural heir of David, upon whose throne he shall reign.
“A God is
coming to earth. He is to grow up in subjection to his earthly parents; to
know, when twelve years of age of his divine Sonship, to minister for three and
a half years among his Jewish kinsmen; and then to die upon the cross for the
sins of the world.
“A God is
coming to earth. He is to preach the gospel, heal the sick, raise the dead, and
call apostles and seventies to carry his message to the world and to testify of
his divinity. He is to be rejected, reviled, spit upon, scourged, and
crucified.
“A God is
coming to earth and we can scarce record a thousandth or a ten thousandth of
the things he was destined to do, the words he was destined to speak, the
people he was destined to heal….
“A God is
coming to earth and everything connected with his birth and life and ministry
and resurrection and ascension to eternal glory must be perfect. It must
conform to what the prophets have foreseen, foreknown, and foretold.”
-
Bruce
R. McConkie, “The Mortal Messiah Book 1”, p 282-4
Did
you miss
Your
godly robes
That
you traded for
The
swaddling cloths of Calvary?
Was
the ground rough beneath
Your
feet as You traversed
The
dusty roads of Galilee?
The
baseness of This earth,
So
willingly suffered despite hostility.
Yet,
You came
The
Father to reveal
And
to Him forever
Our
yielding hearts to seal.
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art: Love by Eileen Whitehead)
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