The Fall of Adam and the Natural Man   The Pearl of Great Price Lecture 05 by Hyrum Andrus
Channel: Light and Truth
Date: 2016-07-19

Hyrum L. Andrus
All rights reserved January 25-27, 1996
LECTURE – 5 THE FALL OF ADAM AND THE NATURAL MAN
I’m going to continue discussing the creation for a while before we move on to the subject of the fall. We need to interject into the subject and we have been talking about the last hour or so the picture of Moses and I would like to read enough to put that in perspective to give the general picture as Moses gives it. Let me turn with you to Moses Chapter 1 versus 31 through 41.
“And behold, the glory of the Lord was upon Moses, so that Moses stood in the presence of God, and talked with him face to face. And the Lord God said unto Moses: For mine own purpose have I made these things. Here is wisdom and it remained in me. And by the word of my power, have I created them, which is mine Only Begotten Son, who is full of grace and truth. And worlds without number have I created; and I also created them for mine own purpose; and by the Son I created them, which is mine Only Begotten.” Now note, “And the first man of all men have I called Adam, which is many.”
Now what is the context of that last statement is that this earth or is it worlds without number? It is worlds without number and within that context the first man of all men on those worlds that are created and populated the first of all men have I called Adam. So Adam then is a title denoting transition from the pre-fall to the fall state. In that context still remaining there he goes on to say “But only an account of this earth and the inhabitants thereof give I unto you. For behold, there are many worlds that have passed away.” Now some people have a tendency i.e. passed away to glory and exaltation. It doesn’t say that and as you read it and as you read it in historical context it doesn’t mean that. He is talking to Moses several hundred years before Christ made the atonement. There had not been any resurrection on an any of these worlds Christ had created. The bands of death hadn’t been broken.
And so there many worlds that have been and have passed away that have been created and have passed away and I would add to that not as my personal opinion but we have talked about Enoch for example and his ministry to terrestrial bodies there are two kinds of terrestrial bodies. There are translated terrestrial bodies and there are resurrected terrestrial bodies and when the Lord say for example to Enoch as he does here in Teachings page 170.
Now this Enoch God reserved to himself that he should not die at the time was appointed to him to a ministry unto terrestrial bodies. Now given the context that is et by the idea of this eternity that this eternity is Christ’s creation this eternity is his ball game, can I put it that way? It’s his program and there aren’t any resurrected terrestrial beings yet for Enoch to have any presidency over unless he gets outside of the eternity and goes over and finds an eternity owned by some other begotten and says hay I want to preside over your terrestrial planet and that’s inconsistent.
Alright so the terrestrial worlds over which he presides are terrestrial bodies out of this eternity and where did they come from? Well, when Christ ministered to each of these worlds and they enjoyed the joy of his countenance and he implemented his gospel program in fullness among them to the extent that it could then be implemented. Then they came up not only to the fullness of the priesthood but many of they came up to the powers of translation and they were translated. Then as a part of the whole scenario, the whole great cosmic scenario then on the redemptive earth this great and noble personality, this humble lad, the stammering soul, at least he called himself that who built Zion and got them into the state of translation is then given keys over the terrestrial bodies of this eternity. So it ties all of those in to this world, this redemptive earth.
There is a statement by the Prophet Joseph Smith, I didn’t bring the source with me, but there is a statement by the Prophet where he talks about the ministry of Christ after the resurrection. Now we know that he ministered to the Nephites here and we know that he wet to minister among the ten tribes, and I don’t believe that was a tracting spree through northern Europe. He ministered to them as a body, they were the outcasts of Israel. Those who had been cast out, not those who had been scattered.
The Prophet says that he also ministered to resurrected and translated bodies. Resurrected bodies would be those who had died and were with him in the resurrection or shortly thereafter. Translated bodies, then, would be those who were on those other worlds that Enoch had the keys of presidency over. So he goes there and they have a glorious meeting and what do they say? Well, I haven’t red thÖ Get the full transcription from www.hyrumandrus.com!