[§350] The Resurrection of All Other Things After the Final Judgment
All living (mortal) things will die1 and all will be resurrected by the power of Christ's atonement.2 Animals,3 plants,4 and even worlds5 are living souls6 with both an inward spirit7 and an outward physical body.8 Therefore, the entire human family must be resurrected on all the physical worlds of Christ's creation.9 All mortal sons of perdition on every world will be resurrected last from among God's children and cast into the lake of fire from every world as on this world.10 When all humans from all Christ's worlds have been resurrected in their order of obedience and intelligence, the resurrection can proceed11 with all animals, all plants, and then all minerals (worlds)12 that Christ organized and redeemed.13 All these will be resurrected in their descending14 order of intelligence15 based on the Order of Resurrection.16 That is, all animals must be resurrected from all worlds, followed by all plants from all worlds, followed last by all worlds themselves. This pattern of resurrection on this earth among the four classes of creation is the same pattern on all worlds created by Christ.17
The Order of Resurrection is based on the law of obedience.18 This law requires creations of higher intelligence19 to advance or become added upon as a class20 before creations within the lower classes of intelligence are added upon.21 The same principle applies to people who gain an advantage over their peers in the resurrection22 and in the world to come.23 They gain an advantage in their glorification because they acquire greater intelligence,24 which is light and truth,25 through their greater diligence and obedience in this life.26
After humans are resurrected first as the most intelligent class of all God's creations27 on this and many other worlds,28 the resurrection will proceed in descending order of intelligence with animals and then plants.29 These lesser orders or classes of creation30 will be resurrected from myriads of different worlds after they perfectly and obediently fill the measure of their creation.31 Animals and plants will have their same form in the resurrection.32 They shall enjoy eternal felicity in the various kingdoms of glory on celestial, terrestrial, or telestial worlds.33
After the resurrection of animals and plants from all worlds of this generation, then the countless worlds created by Jesus Christ34 will be resurrected to become kingdoms of glory according to the law they abide.35 During the physical creation, Christ first organized telestial worlds followed by terrestrial worlds with the requisite intelligence to abide the law of their creation. Christ then organized worlds that could abide celestial law.36 These are called celestial worlds.37 These worlds fill the measure of their creation to become glorified worlds38 of the celestial kingdom after their resurrection.39 Celestial worlds are the only worlds inhabited by mortal humans40 who‒in the resurrection‒inherit the world of their mortal habitation if they live celestial law.41 The number of created worlds is quantifiably and qualitatively fixed42 to accommodate the fixed number of God's spirit children43 that reside on celestial worlds during their mortality.44
Resurrected celestial worlds will not be subdivided into multiple kingdoms of glory on the same world.45 People that fail to obey celestial law will be removed from the celestial world of their mortal existence.46 They will be transplanted to a resurrected world of lesser glory47 created for that purpose.48 These other worlds of lesser glory are uninhabited planets before their resurrection.49 Nevertheless, they will be raised in glory to be numbered among the many mansions50 that Christ described to his disciples on the eve of his crucifixion.51 These many mansions are resurrected worlds in all three kingdoms of glory,52 including celestial, terrestrial, and telestial glory.53
Celestial, terrestrial, and telestial worlds are part of an ordered hierarchy that exists among all worlds.54 That hierarchy began when God systematically created countless worlds of spirit55 to be incorporated into the countless physical worlds that Christ has created.56 God created Kolob as the first world of spirit because Kolob was the most intelligent of all spirit worlds in his generation.57 Kolob is also the inward spirit of this earth.58 After God created Kolob, the spirit creation of all other worlds proceeded in descending order of their intelligence according to the Order of Creation.59 That same Order of Creation will be repeated when these same worlds are resurrected60 as celestial, terrestrial, and then telestial worlds in their descending order of intelligence.61 This earth will be resurrected as a celestial kingdom,62 and it will be the first resurrected world of this generation63 because Kolob is its inward spirit.64 John symbolically describes the resurrection of this earth in Revelation 21.65
There were no resurrections of any kind or of any class among all Christ's physical creations until Christ first performed his atonement on this earth as the preeminent world above all his other worlds.66 Christ was literally the first fruit of the resurrection among all people, among all animals, among all plants, and among all the worlds he has created.67
Christ did not create any physical worlds to be the final dwelling place for sons of perdition.68 Their lake of fire (outer darkness)69 is uncreated space prepared by God from the beginning as a place with no light or glory of any kind.70 Therefore, the resurrection will end for all Christ's physical creations when the last and least intelligent world of the telestial kingdom is resurrected.71
And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband.
— Revelation 21:1-2
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