First resurrection described as 'glorious event' for faithful
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Abinadi preached to the priests of Noah about the first resurrection, saying it would include "all the prophets, and all those that have believed in their words, or all those that have kept the commandments of God." (Mosiah 15:22.)
Describing this glorious event, the Prophet Joseph Smith taught: "Those who have died in Jesus Christ may expect to enter into all that fruition of joy when they come forth, which they possessed or anticipated here."So plain was the vision, that I actually saw men, before they had ascended from the tomb, as though they were getting up slowly. They took each other by the hand and said to each other, `My father, my son, my mother, my daughter, my brother, my sister.' And when the voice calls for the dead to arise, suppose I am laid by the side of my father, what would be the first joy of my heart? To meet my father, my mother, my brother, my sister; and when they are by my side, I embrace them and they me.
" . . . All your losses will be made up to you in the resurrection, provided you continue faithful. By the vision of the Almighty I have seen it.
" . . . The expectation of seeing my friends in the morning of the resurrection cheers my soul and makes me bear up against the evils of life. It is like their taking a long journey, and on their return we meet them with increased joy."
