~ Title ~God's Great Plan of Happiness for All His Children
The Plan of Exaltation & The Everlasting CovenantA Twelve Part Series with
Sub-Topics and An Appendixby Don R. Hender
~ Foreward ~
As the scriptures state, 'For as in Adam we all die' (1
Corinthians 15:22), even so, it was NOT expedient that man should immediately be reclaimed
by that temporal death, for that would have destroyed the great plan of happiness that God
had set forth for the benefit and spritual salvation of his 'spirit angel children' (Alma
42:8). If man would have immediately been reclaimed or saved and redeemed from death, then
there would have been no workings in time by which man could seek and come unto Christ the
Redeemer to obtain a remission of his sins by way of his own activation of agency and gain
his own way back into the Kingdom of Glory of God on his own initative and self actuation
based upon his personal maturation in and of the principles of selfreliance. For if man
would have immediately taken again to the 'tree of life', he would have then lived forever
in his sins and he would thence forth be but a misserable soul in deed, eternally carnal
and sinful, left outside of God's Kingdon. 'But as in Christ, man could be redeemed,
forgiven for his sins if he would turn unto Christ and by the marvalous atonement obtained
a forgiveness and reconciliation with God in the Kingdom of God. Then man could be made to
live again, having his sins removed and enabled to return to live forever in righteousness
with God his Father in the Kingdom of God's glory.' How kind and merciful are the workings
of our God and His Messiah which He has provided mankind.
That Great Plan of God is known by and referred to by many names, any number of which
speaks of that plan from the various perspectives, by which it does work and is accomplish
and to what end it is intended to bring. That end is, namely, the immortality and eternal
life of man (Moses1:39). Some of these names are such as, 'The Plan of Eternal Progression',
'The Eternal Plan of Deliverance', 'The Plan of Salvation', 'The Plan of Mercy', 'The Gospel
Plan' and yes, 'The Great Plan of Happiness; among every other such name and descriptive
title. As our loving Father in Heaven of all the spirit-angels of mankind, God the Father
has provided this great plan of promise, whereby he does sacrifice the life in death of his
own beloved Son, Jehovah, who is the same as Jesus Christ; to come down from heaven and as
such to be a sinless sacrifice for the sins of the men of this world for all those who would
but come unto him, repent, and be forgiven and redeemed from the sins of the world, that by
the sacrifice of the blood and the flesh of the Redeemer, all man might be forgiven and
enabled to return to live with God again.
And to this end, this work, of various perspectives, is being written and compiled that we
might be influenced to come to unaderstand and believe the truth of it. And that we might
accept that which the Father hath promised and blessed us with. Which promise on the part
of the Father and upon our part of acceptance and compliance, we may enter in to live in
His Celestial Kingdom with Him by the Covenant, even an Everlasting Covenant of the
blessing of all the children of God unto the bring to pass the immortality and eternal life
of man. It is a Plan and a Covenant for the ages and for all eternity between God and man,
individual by individual, family by family, generation upon generation, and from
dispensation to dispensation for ever and ever, Amen.
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