Let me call your attention to the keys
of Elias. In the first place, who is Elias? Elias is Noah, Here we have the
same one who gave the covenant unto Japheth anciently, that he would be blessed
and that we would come in and dwell in the House of Shem. He returned to earth
to give the keys unto the Prophet Joseph Smith to fulfill the promise made to
Abraham that through the loins of Abraham, or the chosen seed, all the children
of the earth would be blessed.
Soon after 1836 the Lord gave the
revelation to send missionaries and commence work among the Gentiles in
England, and labor in 1850 in France, and then in northern Italy and then these
other countries. This was not done, however, until Noah returned the “Key.”
You see, as in Elias the Gospel of
Jesus Christ would be preached unto the Gentiles. Don't you see that what we
are doing is a great deal more important than just filling a two and one-half
year period as a missionary and then going home? We are working out the plan
which the Father laid in the beginning as to what would transpire. What has
actually happened? The Lord is preparing men and women today to become heirs of
the Celestial Kingdom. This is the only work that is being done. The work for
the Terrestrial Kingdom has not even been started yet. It will not start until
the work for the Celestial Kingdom is finished. Then all who are to go into the
Telestrial Kingdom, will continue until all have made covenant and have
received the promise to go into that Kingdom. All of these things will be done
in their proper order (Alvin
R. Dyer, "For
What Purpose?," Mission Conference, Oslo, Norway, March 18, 1962, pp.
9-10)
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