Adam-ondi-Ahman is the sacred place at Spring Hill, Missouri,¹ where Adam (the Ancient of Days)² will gather his righteous posterity 3½ years before the Second Coming.³ This gathering mirrors the ancient gathering of Adam's righteous posterity three years before his death.⁴ When Adam attends the future gathering at Adam-ondi-Ahman, he will have a resurrected and glorified body.⁵ Daniel symbolically describes Adam's glorified person by the whiteness of his garments⁶ and the purity of his white hair.⁷

Daniel 7:9 states that Adam will sit on a throne like the fiery flame during the future gathering of saints at Adam-ondi-Ahman.⁸ The symbol of a fiery throne is ordinarily reserved for God the Father and his Son, Jesus Christ.⁹ However, the fiery throne in Daniel's vision symbolizes Adam's position as a glorified prince¹⁰ who presides over his posterity.¹¹ In the same verse, the wheels as burning fire around Adam's throne¹² represent the power of God¹³ and his Spirit.¹⁴ This manifestation of the Holy Ghost¹⁵ will transfigure mortal people in attendance¹⁶ and sanctify all those assembled.¹⁷ Unsanctified people cannot participate in this sacrament meeting,¹⁸ and the wicked world will not have knowledge of it.¹⁹

The fiery stream that issues from before Adam in Daniel 7:9,²⁰ will be like the cloven tongues of fire present on the Day of Pentecost²¹ when the disciples were also separately endowed with power from on high.²² The season of the Kirtland Temple dedication in 1836²³ included a similar outpouring of the Holy Ghost upon many Latter-day Saints.²⁴ Cloven tongues of fire are a sign of the Savior's coming.²⁵ This outpouring of the Spirit at Adam-ondi-Ahman will prepare the gathered saints for Christ's coming to Adam-ondi-Ahman²⁶ and also for Christ's Second Coming.²⁷

An immense number of ten thousand times ten thousand (or 100 million)²⁸ of Adam's righteous posterity shall stand before him at Adam-ondi-Ahman.²⁹ Adam will judge them because he is the patriarchal head of the human family³⁰ and holds the keys of salvation under the counsel and direction of the Holy One.³¹ This is not the final judgment, and it does not involve a judgment upon any of the unjust.³² Only celestial-worthy people will attend the gathering to stand before Adam,³³ including those worthy of exaltation within the Patriarchal Order of the Priesthood.³⁴ The attendees will include mortal people,³⁵ resurrected people,³⁶ citizens from the city of Enoch,³⁷ translated people,³⁸ and the unresurrected spirits of just men made perfect.³⁹ The Lost Ten Tribes of Israel will also attend this gathering of saints in their translated condition and then they will participate in the redemption of Zion thereafter.⁴⁰

At this future gathering of saints, Adam will exercise the keys of salvation to open the book of life,⁴¹ which will indicate who among his righteous posterity will be crowned kings and queens⁴² in the Patriarchal Order of the Priesthood.⁴³ This is why the Lord God, the Holy One of Zion, established temple ordinances and the Patriarchal Order anciently as a foundation of Adam-ondi-Ahman.⁴⁴ Conditional promises of exaltation from past temple ordinances will be made unconditional at Adam-ondi-Ahman for the thousand thousands (or one million)⁴⁵ that minister to Adam.⁴⁶ Daniel calls these exaltation-worthy saints ministers⁴⁷ because they are the greatest in God's kingdom,⁴⁸ notwithstanding they are the least and servants of all.⁴⁹ Therefore, they receive crowns of glory⁵⁰ as faithful kings and queens.⁵¹ These exalted people will possess and rule over kingdoms⁵² during the millennium⁵³ and Jesus Christ will be the King of these many kings.⁵⁴

The thousand thousands of exaltation-worthy ministers from Daniel's vision are the 144,000 Servants that John saw during his several visions in the Book of Revelation.⁵⁵ These exaltation-worthy saints will have the seal of the Living God⁵⁶ and shall rule their families in righteousness after receiving their crowns at Adam-ondi-Ahman.⁵⁷ Their family units shall also be organized according to the Patriarchal Order of the Priesthood during the same gathering.⁵⁸ This organizational change will cause the earthly Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to begin its merger with the millennial Church of the Firstborn.⁵⁹