The Plan of Exaltation & The Everlasting Covenant
by Don R. Hender
Preface & Introduction
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There are a number of names and titles and explanation that
have been used in speaking and elaborating upon God's Great Plan and the Covenant Promises and
Blessings, which do pertain unto it. Some refuse to consider or contemplate that, which extends
beyond the obvious covers of mortality. To them you are born, you eat, sleep, work, play and
then you die, and that is all that they can fathom to be, nothing before, neither anything
beyond. And any 'fool' from their limited myopic blinder view of the matter who bears testimony
of having knowledge and understanding beyond those limiting covers of existance is scoffed at and
put to scorn for believing in something before one's birth and beyond the grave of one's death.
What a tiresome simpleton's perspective it is indeed. But rather than to get involved in all the
false and corrupted speculations of the matter of their being an endless nature to the being and
existence of man and other stages of life beyond a single staged frame of being born, paying
taxes and dying, they refuse to even let their minds be bothered upon it. And with all the
superstishes tripe which is circulated and pretended upon it, it may well seem good and well to
just ignore all the mumbo jumbo of it all. After all their is an endless conglomerate of variously
contrived and pretended supposed facts concerning it. And while to some self made achademians it
is nothing more than an endless concoction of friberlous and mindless 'theories' of just what is
their to be waded through. That is if one cannot seem to find a truth in all the various tells
about it. And yet there does seem to be just enough factual events about some of it which does
but seem to keeping on going and believed in by many folks. Below is a true depiction of just what
is envolved in our Heavenly Father's Plan for His Children.
Whether it is labeld under tha titles of religions, cults, paganisms, and any other seemingly
stream of mystical structures of belief and a societal structual civilization or lack thereof
sets of rules to be governed by, of statstuetutes of communal behavior from simple tribal
relationship to highly evolved mannerisms and proper standards of conduct. Even the 'none-
believer' seems to have to concede that their must needs be some commonality of existence agreed
upon for man's intellectual intelligence to coexist and trive or at least commonly dwell together
within so set of structure. And whether there is any standard of morality to it or lack thereof,
there but seems to be those who set the rules or changes them, evey by way of their own dictates
of some type of communal consent, even if be like today that of incompetent immoral power
mongerors and corrupt formers of societal 'norms' which have forsaken the most basic of civil
rightes of the inocent in favor of those who choose to do whatever the hell they want, even to
the committing of the horrors of attacks and murders of the unborn children by having their
brains whipped up by an eggbeater and sucked out and disposed of just so the unrully and
selfish minded persons of the world who refuse to assume any responsibility for their own
indecent behaviors to even have a single humane or human felling for a new born baby. And there
are those who refuse to assume the responsiblity for their own harmonal control to act in a
civilized manner to control mother nature's programming instilled to be the very foundational
basis of building a sound societal structure of existance upon which humanity may be established
and trive rather than to fall victim to the chaoas of the lowly sickening levels of reverencing
the basis of the human family of father, mother, son and daughter.
Even dictated rules of so called 'free' societies to day but dictate, even mandate that what is
good for human society is evil and what is bad for human and humane behavior is good. Let men
poison themselves with substances that destroy society as long as the rich and famous demand to
have their tolls taken out from their victims of mutilation and taking advantage of the
inocent majority for the benefit of the ruling few whose search for self power, wealth and
self agrandizment but seeks to make a new realm of societal surfs upon which to suck the life
blood out of for their own wishes to but to control the masses as to what seems to fit their
of fancy and vulgar intended purposes. Such politic acts have long since ceased to be what is
best for humanity but rather what is best for the special interests groups who are taking us all
to hell in a basket. And they speak against any 'moral standard' as not being what is best for
their brand of society, which they are but making up on the fly of the bases of vulgar human
desires and demands. And they are basically canabalizing the life out of the young to achive
what it is that they in their uncontrolled inhuman natures to get just what it is that they
want for themselves above any solid concerns of what is best for the people.
Yet in all this current paths of chaos, there is the one shining light of the best of humanity
that still stands, but is currently under attack and total threat of extinction by the
immoral stink of the world today. That is the light of the world which has encountered countless
attackes and near extinction before through the centuries and millennial years of earth's
history. And that gets us back to just what is the real cause and purpose of the world from the
frame of reference of He it is that has created it for the purpose for the benefit and use of
mankind in a most civilized and humane form of living which does connect the motality of the
temporal realm to and with the eternal realm of our God in whose image of goodness we have
been created in, at least to the goal and intend to learning to come to control and govern
the 'creature instincts' for personal gain and base desires at the expense of others, and
turning them into a productive and moralistic standard of righteous behavior which seeks the
benefit and eternal life and good for all their brotherly earthly inhabitants.
The High Road to Human Behavior and Benefit for Mankind
God's stated purpose has at its end goal that which is best for mankind, His spirit children.
And that is, 'To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of mankind.' God's intent and
purpose is to work to bring about what is best for all men, not just to meet their base self-
destructive creature desires at the expense of others, but to do what is best for the benefit
of all mankind, that is every living soul who ever has, does or will live upon the face of the
earth. And that is just a goal which the myopic selfish self-serving creature just cannot come
to comprehend who sees life as a matter of serving self at the expense of others. Jesus taught
the principle of giving service to one's human kind and in doing 'good' unto all men and living
a conservative controlled, decent, and righteous life style which serves to benefit a moral
standard of foundational life living which seeks to obey the directions and commandments of
God that are set up for that very benefit and enrichment for the betterment of mankind.
God's standard is that which provides man an avenue to 'Eternal Progression' and 'Eternal Life'
by living the foundational societal success on the threshold of the eternal standards of life
eternal. It is life on the higher standard of living according to what is best for mankind.
And it is not living a careless creature life style of recreational drugs which but destroy the
human mind, health, moral standard and human decientcy upon which immortality must be based
upon. It lives by and protects the sanctity of life and does not seek the 'murder' of life to
to achieve one's own corrupt momentary convience by causing the death of innocent unborn
children. It teaches the right to life, not the right to take someone elses life just to suit
one's self.
The Names of God's Plan: There are various names by which 'God's Plan' for the
benefit of mankind comes under, principly in accord with the perspective of the 'Plan' that is
being addressed. Some of these names are: 'The Plan of Eternal Progression' which usually
speaks from the perspective of providing for mankind an avenue to be able to 'progress
eternally' in the eternities to come. In order for mankind to be enabled to gain the greatest
degree and benefit of 'eternal progression' the end goal is for man to progress and become even
as God is. Jesus spoke of becoming one even as he and God the Father were also one. At this
level of attainment, man has been enabled to become even as God is. That is he has obtained
the highest degree of the Celestial Order. That entails living worthy to be even as God is
with an eternal spouse of the opposite sex which enables a man and a woman to have eternal
prosterity throughout all eternity. With this one single ultimate goal in mind, it becomes
quite obvious as to why the sanctity of marriage must be obtained an adhered to as being between
a man and a woman. Those who have defiled themselves by becoming 'lustfully seduced' into
accepting the lowly status of sexual relationships to be between those of the same sex or even
those of the level that do not respect the sanctity of marriage between a man and a woman for
the intent and purpose of procreation, have violated God's intended design for the proper use
of the sexual drive to the ends of properly procreating and caring for the species of mankind
to the end of eternally procreating and purpetuating the human race, which is the race of God.
It is to this end that having sexual activities out side of the confines of the God Ordained
institution of marriage is in the eyes of God such a great abomination and evil sin in the
eyes of God. And the full extent of the commandment, 'Thou Shalt NOT Commit Adultry!' must be
fully understoood. Some have attempted to define 'Adultry' as just a married man or woman
having an affair. That is NOT its only vantage point. The purpose of sex and the sexual drive
is to be maintained in and only with the intent and purpose of a man and a woman seeking to
procreate. Any sexual activity outside the marriage relationship is a violation of concept of
the 'Law of Chasity'. As Christ proclaimed, 'Even to lust after a 'man' or a 'woman' is of the
order to have committed adulty of the heart.' (Matthew 5) It is not just to have an extramarital
affair of a husband or wife with another person. Thus in the Church of Jesus Christ, sexual
sin becomes any type of sex outside a legal and lawful marriage between a man and a woman. With
in the confines of marriage, sex is a beautiful and fulfilling thing and an act in which a
man and a woman can co-participate with God i the procreation process of 'bringing to pass the
immortality and eternal life of man' by participating in the procreative process. Of course
there are many reasons why some married couple cannot have children. God does not fault this
circumstance and this mortality is but one facit of man's temporal probationary experience of
becoming like God is. After death, there is still a 1,000 year period which also related to
this earthly probation that ought to also be understood to be a part of this earth's intended
experience and preparation. Those who have not had certain fulfillments during their mortality
will further have an opportunity to achieve all of God's intended blessing for his children.
President Spencer W. Kimball so taught such to sisters at Ricks College telling them that as
long as they are faithful memeber of Christ Kingdom of this earth life, even though they may
not have had a celestial marriage opportunity in mortality, they still could achieve a fulness
of all of God's blessing for themselves. This would given an added purpose of fulfillment of
that thousand year periof of the Millennium beyond just doing temple work for the dead. Married
couples who lost an enfant or baby in life will have the opportunity to raise that child in
the Millennium and I must also concluded that there will be marriage and given in marriage in
the Millennium and many will achieve God's earthly blessings of having children of thier own
during that time as well. So if one does not have a celestial marriage with children in
mortality, there is still the promise of such blessings which may be associated with that time
and period of the 1,000 year Millennial Reign prior to and before God's final judgment. So don't
give up. Those eternal blessings of God's highest degree may still be in store even if not
achieved in mortality. In God's Plan, there is always a way that one might obtain God's
greatest blessings.
And I must suppose that this even includes the path of repentance for those who sinned ignorantly
not knowing or understanding God's laws. It is murder of spilling innocent blood knowingly, that
is knowing it is against God's Law, by direct disobedience to the witness of the Holy Ghost that
is that of a sin that cannot be repented of. As to exactly what rewards from God are still
truly available from God to man, I am not the one to say. That is to him in whose hands that
repentance and forgiveness is in, even that great Judge of the Children of God, even Jesus Christ
who has been placed in that position upon the judgment or mercy seat. But sexual sin is next to
that sin of murder and that of denigning the Holy Ghost and desvowing Jesus Christ as the
Christ after having received the testimony of the Holy Ghost that that is exactly who it is that
he is.
Other names of God's Plan, it the 'Plan of Salvation', 'God's Plan of Happiness' and the
'Plan of the Gospel'. While each of these are the same plan, by the terminology it becomes
obviously that each may give certain emphasis to various asspects of God's Plan. As the Gospel
Plan for example would likely emphasis that various distinct gospel ordinance thus required to
obtain in compliance to the Gospel Plan. As Jesus taught, except a man is born of the water and
the spirit, he cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven. That means everyone must be baptized
and recieve the Holy Ghost. And everyone will be. That is a part of why we do temple work for
the dead. So until the very end of the Millennial Day, there seems to alway be hope. And I'm
sure there will be a number of marriages and sealing to also be settled and straightened out
during that time as well. The LORD's Plan is one Great Merciful Plan for all. And a thousand
years is a lot of time to get all things properly in line and properly affected
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