Our beginning on this earth through Adam and Eve is an
incredible witness that God’s purposes cannot be frustrated and that His
success is imminent and without fail.
Something wonderful happened to Adam and Eve after they
buried their hopes and dreams and plans for their righteous son Abel. He it was
that was groomed by his parents to be the heir of the Priesthood and thus
become the presiding high priest over the kingdom of God on earth. He was to
succeed his father and become the head of a whole new cultural pattern of
righteous living that would take the humanity on a different path than what was
up to that time established by Satan among the children of men (Moses 6:15).
Only those parents who have buried their children
after an unjust death would understand the deep sorrow experienced by Adam and
Eve when they lost Abel. These parents, I believe, will be compensated for
their loss, just like our first parents were, sometime, somewhere, somehow.
Adam was 130 years old when Eve had another son. This
was the golden boy that replaced Abel. He was tutored and taught the science of
righteous living and gave his parents cause to have hope for the future. This
was Seth who in every way resembled his father Adam. The Lord in modern
revelation said this of him: “Seth was a perfect man, and his likeness was the
express likeness of his father….and could not be distinguished from him only by
his age.” (D&C 107:43)
This was the compensation, the recompense, the reward
for all our first parents suffered because of their children: “Seth lived a
total of 912 years (ibid v 46), and during his long ministry he saw the Church
of God become a great organized power for good among the children of men……….
Seth prophesied and preached repentance for 840 years. As a result, many who
would have otherwise grown up in wickedness caught the vision of faith which his
daily conduct and sermons portrayed (Moses 6:23). (W. Cleon Skousen, “The First
Two Thousand Years” p 132)
Seth, the recompense and the beginning of the patriarchs.
Some years ago I had a memory from my pre-earth life.
I was sitting with the Saviour and He was saying to me: “I will save you and
make up for everything”. My life to this day does not resemble any ‘make-up’
but I still believe in the promise. If not in this life, then most assuredly in
the next, and the next life is what truly matters to me. In the meantime, all
glory be to His name for the greatest recompense He has given me…..the close
association I now have with Him and our Father….and that to me is the greatest
reward I could possibly have.
May you, who are in your sorrow, believe in Him who
has the power to say: “I will restore to you the years that the locust hath
eaten……… (Joel 2:25)
- CATHRYNE ALLEN
(Art: Acquainted with Grief by Jenedy Paige)
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