Joseph Smith will be the first
resurrected being in this dispensation & he will hold the keys of the
Resurrection & no man can be raised without his permission, he will
delegate this power. He then spoke of the final baptism of the earth by fire—The
earth to be as a Sea of Glass. He next said something of exchange of women
& children. All are the children of Father Adam. When Jesus has done his
work he will take this planet back to his Father. (Brigham Young, as recorded
in Thomas D. Brown, Journal, October 8, 1854, in Journal of the Southern
Indian Mission: Diary of Thomas D. Brown, ed. Juanita Brooks [Western
Text Society 4; Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press, 1972], 89)
