- Day 62
- Principle: Before Final Judgement all will have an opportunity to learn of Jesus Christ
- Read: 2 Nephi 25:1 - 25:13
- Verse 4 and Revelation 19:10 are linked. How does a testimony of Jesus Christ further understanding?
- Asking questions and looking for answers in scripture leads to revelation. Read in Doctrine and Covenants 138:20–21, 25–28 and look for questions that Joseph F. Smith raised.
- Now look in Doctrine and Covenants 138:29–37 for the answer to his question.
- What does it mean to you that all with have the chance to learn of Jesus Christ?
- Joseph Fielding Smith taught
“[W]hat about the countless thousands who have died and never heard of Christ, never had an opportunity of repentance and remission of their sins, never met an elder of the Church holding the authority? Some of our good Christian neighbors will tell you they are lost forever. …
“Would that be fair? Would it be just? No! The Lord is going to give to every man the opportunity to hear and to receive eternal life, or a place in his kingdom” (Doctrines of Salvation, comp. Bruce R. McConkie, 3 vols. [1954–56], 2:132).
- Joseph Fielding Smith taught
- What questions have you taken to the scriptures and what answers have you received?
- Additional Study
- Susa Young Gates and the Vision of the Redemption of the Dead, Revelations in Context, D&C 138
- Jeffrey R. Holland, "Missionary Work and the Atonement", October 2001
- I'll Go Where yOu Want Me to Go, Hymns 270
- I Hope They Call Me on a Mission, Children's Songbook No. 169