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Saviors on Mount Zion The Doctrine & Covenants Lecture 08 by Hyrum Andrus

Hyrum L. Andrus All rights reserved August 15-18, 1991 LECTURE – 8 SAVIORS ON MOUNT ZION I want to discuss the subject of saviors on Mount Zion. The record, as we all know, comes from the book of Obadiah where he speaks of the latter-days and indicates that there will come saviors on Mount Zion who will redeem the House of Esau, having reference to others of Israel and those who obey the gospel and who haven’t received it here on earth. Let me just begin with some clarification on the work that has to be done, just kind of an overview statement. The work of becoming saviors on Mount Zion is far greater, has more scope to it than most of us realize. It entails three major things. Number one, we must perform all the ordinances for the dead, at least those the Lord tells us to do it for. That doesn’t mean just to be baptized for them. The Prophet Joseph Smith makes this statement: “It is not only necessary that you should be baptized for your dead, but you will have to go through all the ordinances for them, the same as you have gone through to save yourselves.” [Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith p. 157] And again, “Every man who wishes to save his father, mother, brothers, sisters or friends, must go through all the ordinances for each of them, separately, the same as for himself, from baptism to ordination, to receiving all the keys and powers of the Priesthood, the same as for yourselves.” [Discourses of the Prophet Joseph Smith p. 152] So there is that great work. The second great work is that we must build up Zion on the sacred covenants and rites of the House of the Lord, to the point where Zion becomes Mount Zion, established upon her Mount, which is the Temple, and receives the sealing powers and is crowned with glory. This is vitally important. So the work of becoming saviors on Mount Zion is not just the performance of ordinances; we must build up Zion as the Holy Order of God, centered in Christ, to the point that it is endowed with glory. The third thing is, we must gather all things and all dispensations together in one. Here in the Teachings, page 168, the Prophet explains this point. He says, “God purposed in himself that there should not be an eternal fullness until every dispensation should be fulfilled and gathered together in one, and that all things whatsoever, that should be gathered together in one in those dispensations unto the same fullness and eternal glory, should be in Christ Jesus; therefore He set the ordinances to be the same forever and ever, and set Adam to watch over them, to reveal them from heaven to man, or to send angels to reveal them.” There has to be, then, a program where you gather all dispensations into one. That means, if I can put it this way, that there can be no salvation for men like Enoch, Noah, Moses, Elijah, Peter, in the full sense that the Lord contemplates, without Joseph Smith and without the work of this dispensation. That’s what it means. Here in Section 128, the Prophet, writing by revelation concerning the need to perform the works of the Temple, quotes Malachi, “Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord,” and then makes this comment in verse 18: “I might have rendered a plainer translation to this,” and that plainer translation is found in Section 128 verse 18 of the Doctrine and Covenants, “but it is sufficiently plain to suit my purpose as it stands. It is sufficient to know, in this case, that the earth will be smitten with a curse unless there is a welding link of some kind or other between the fathers and the children, upon some subject or other--and behold what is that subject?” Well, it begins with baptism for the dead and extends on up to the full ordinances. He says, “We without them cannot be made perfect; neither can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel.” It’s not talking about people who have not received the gospel, it’s talking about people who have received the gospel and passed on. Let me read it again: “For we without them cannot be made perfect,” and that is we without the dead, “neither can they without us be made perfect. Neither can they nor we be made perfect without those who have died in the gospel. For it is necessary in the ushering in of the dispensation of the fulness of times,” or to use another phrase, “the fulness of dispensations.” It is necessary. The word “times” is a synonym for dispensations. “For it is necessary in the ushering in of the dispensation of the fulness of times [or the fulness of dispensations], which dispensation is now beginning to usher in.” We haven’t fully gotten it yet. He says, “...that a whole and complete and perfect union, and welding together of dispensations, and keys, and powersÖ Get the full transcription from www.hyrumandrus.com!