Telestial Entertainment, Politics and Schools

Imagine that today the Savior came and ended the world as we know it. Everyone was then judged “according to their works.” How many would go to the Celestial glory, the Terrestrial, and the Telestial glories, and how many would eventually end up in perdition?

The Scriptures imply that most will fail, and apparently be doomed to lower heavens – the Telestial and the Terrestrial kingdoms. 

But behold, and lo, we saw the glory and the inhabitants of the telestial world, that they were as innumerable as the stars in the firmament of heaven, or as the sand upon the seashore; (D&C 76:109, bold added)

Contrast that with those who inherit the Celestial Kingdom.

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it. (Matt. 7:14, bold added)

No quantity is mentioned for the projected number of Terrestrials, at least as far as I know.

From my personal observation and from Scriptural inference, the Terrestrials will undoubtedly be more numerous than the Celestial but much less than the Telestial.

Therefore, today, we may correctly conclude that the vast majority, perhaps even 80-90% or more, are now living Telestial lives!

What kinds of people are the Telestials?

These are they who are liars, and sorcerers, and adulterers, and whoremongers, and whosoever loves and makes a lie. (D&C 76:103)

Where are these people? They are in all walks of life, some teaching our children in schools, making television shows for us to watch to influence our behavior, and governing our lives per their political whims. In short, the Telestials are trying to influence our behavior and our souls to become or remain Telestial.

Ever wonder why nearly every television show indoctrinates us to accept premarital sexual relationships as normal; why government leaders are so extremely pro-gay, pro-abortion, why schools are paranoid about anything regarding the right to self-defense? It is not an accident.

Satan is real and does exist, as also his billions of demons that were defeated in the war in heaven and are now upon this earth relentlessly determined to influence whoever they can, in order to destroy this world. Telestials are easily influenced by evil, as the scriptures say.

Celestials were sent to this earth to experience these lower kingdoms, resulting in the expansion of their virtues, but not to join them – in the world, but not of it. And those who belong to the lower kingdoms were sent here to become acquainted with and be influenced by the good, and to join them.

Next time, we listen to a politician, learn what is being taught our kids in school, or turn on the television only to see yet another sex scene between unmarried individuals and hear profanities, realize who is influencing that source and what their objective is.

We need to be very careful indeed, of what we pass for acceptable into our living rooms and minds; and what we vote for. We might ask ourselves "Is this show really helping me to live, be and think Celestial, or is it mind pollution, to be corrupted by the Telestial?" The lesser of two evils might still be evil. Where our heart is so is our soul.

… If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things. (Article of Faith 13)

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things. (Philipp. 4:8)

The Book of Mormon Shown True by Those Trying to Disprove It

The other day I was going through the TV channels trying to find something suitable to watch that was not endorsing fornication, profanity, and so on, when I happened across a South Park cartoon in the process of mocking my God and my Prophet Joseph Smith.

It was about Martin Harris taking 116 pages he had transcribed as Joseph Smith translated them from the golden plates. Thereafter he supposedly lost them showing them to family friends. Then Joseph was challenged to do them all over again verbatim, so that the doubters could see if he really was a prophet.

However, God told Joseph to instead recount the material from another book in the collection of books that make up the Book of Mormon. Now this cartoon show says this is proof that Joseph was a false prophet, because if he were a true prophet, he would get inspiration from God and do it again verbatim.

But certain facts are ignored to prop up this false argument.

The thieves could alter some of the original material so that the second translated copy from Joseph Smith would be different. Or, they could make their own altered copy in their own handwriting after destroying the 116 pages, claiming their own copy was written verbatim from the pages Martin Harris brought home and afterwards lost. How to disprove that? Better to start over.

Non-believers say there were no golden plates, that Joseph just made the whole thing up. And that is why he could not do it all over again. The Book of Mormon is a quite complex book, consisting of over 500 pages of a history of an ancient people over a period of a thousand years. If Joseph just cited this history from his head making it up as he went along with Martin Harris writing it down, then how could any human make up such a complex story full of strange names, as Ammonihah, and so on, and keep them in his memory as the pages were filled, and not getting mixed up?

Later the narrated original book was put into chapter and verse style, and then the dates and periods given in the book were found to be so consistent that now at the bottom of each page the dates are given. Could you or anyone on earth recite such a 500 page story out of his mind, and then keep even his page by page time successions consistent with one another? And this from an uneducated young man in his twenties? And many Book of Mormon scriptures are quotations from the King James Bible. He recited hundreds of Bible scriptures and knew when, where and how to place them in the Book of Mormon.

I guess about here, a Mormon mocker would say: “Well, he probably had the whole thing written down behind the hat or blanket he used to hide the “golden plates;” so he just read it to Martin Harris.

Well, if that was the case, then he still had the original material he read from – Martin Harris lost the transcribed copy. Joseph could easily have just read it again to Martin Harris from the original copy.

Thus, none of these anti-LDS postulates can be defended. Why? Because the Book of Mormon did come from God after all.

One more thing I have thought about. The use in the Book of Mormon by the writers Mormon and Moroni, writing something down, and then changing their minds saying “… or rather.” This happens over a dozen times in the Book of Mormon (but only a few times in the Bible). Why is this? And then it occurred to me: “If I were translating something and pressing and indenting my words into golden metal plates, if, after I had done this, and then saw there was a better way to say it, I would be forced to either skip it and leave the less favorable text intact, or manually press out my writings on the plates, which might require redoing the entire plate – no erasers for this kind of work – or, just add the better rendition prefixed with, “or rather.” If I did not have golden plates, but only paper instead, an eraser would have worked, and I could have removed the less favorable translation, and skipped having to add “or rather.” This is another proof that the text was indeed written on metal plates.

This also indicates that there are sometimes several ways to write down that which God inspires. If Joseph had translated the whole original text again as Martin Harris wanted him to do, he might have indeed used other words – also inspired, but likely disappointing to Harris.