“Among All the Workmanship of Mine Hands…”
A few thoughts, actually speculation mingled with scripture, about the world we live on.
I’ve been interested in the Savior’s teachings about this earth when He compared it to His other creations saying,
35 Behold, I am God; Man of Holiness is my name; Man of Counsel is my name; and Endless and Eternal is my name, also.
36 Wherefore, I can stretch forth mine hands and hold all the creations which I have made; and mine eye can pierce them also, and among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not been so great wickedness as among thy brethren. Pearl of Great Price | Moses 7:35 - 36
I wonder if this is what Brigham Young had in mind when he said:
We are inhabitants of a world of sin and sorrow; pain and anguish, every ill that can be heaped upon intelligent beings in a probation we are heirs to. I suppose that God never organized an earth and peopled it that was ever reduced to a lower state of darkness, sin and ignorance than this. I suppose this is one of the lowest kingdoms that ever the Lord Almighty created, and on that account is capable of becoming exalted to be one of the highest kingdoms that has ever had an exaltation in all the eternities. In proportion as it has been reduced so it will be exalted, with that portion of its inhabitants who in their humiliation have cleaved to righteousness and acknowledged God in all things. In proportion as it has been reduced so it will be exalted, with that portion of its inhabitants who in their humiliation have cleaved to righteousness and acknowledged God in all things. In proportion to our fall through sin, so shall we be exalted in the presence of our Father and God, through Jesus Christ and by living the righteousness of his Gospel. All this the people will understand in due time through their faithfulness, and learn to rejoice even in the midst of afflictions.
Brigham Young, May 1863, JD 10:175
It was necessary that the Savior of the world descend below all things so he could ascend above all things, and this earth is the place He accomplished it (see D&C 88:6). We know that the Savior was without sin, He lived a perfect life (Hebrews 4:15, D&C 45:4) and He did it all on this earth, and it may be the least of His creations. Could it be that this earth is the most “fallen” earth out of all the earth’s the Lord created, and therefore accordingly will be the most “exalted”?
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