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Dear
Gramps, I read your answer about plural marriages and that there will be no
marriages performed passed this earth life and I am a little confused.
I was sealed to my husband in the temple but then we were divorced.
He has since been sealed to someone else but our sealing also
remains. If I do not find someone else here on earth to be sealed to will I
either have to remain sealed to him forever or just have to be alone? I have
always told that if I do not find someone here that there would someone for
me in the afterlife. Am I being misled? Cheryl, from Texas |
Dear
Cheryl,
I
guess you could say that there is the afterlife and the after afterlife. The
great work during the millennium will be to perform in holy temples all the
saving ordinances for all those worthy of them who have ever lived on the earth.
President Joseph Fielding Smith had this to say on the subject:
“Furthermore,
there are thousands of young men as well as young women, who have passed to the
world of spirits without the opportunity of these blessings. Many of them have
laid down their lives in battle; many have died in their early youth; and many
have died in their childhood. The Lord will not forget a single one of them. All
the blessings belonging to exaltation will be given them, for this is the course
of justice and mercy. So with those who live in the stakes of Zion and in the
shadows of our temples; if they are deprived of blessings in this life these
blessings will be given to them during the millennium” (Joseph Fielding Smith,
Answers to Gospel Questions, Vol. 2, p.38).
During
the millennium there will be a mortal strain living on the earth. The saving
ordinances of the gospel are to be performed in mortality, by mortal beings. For
all those who have passed beyond the veil of mortality, the temple work will be
performed for them vicariously by those living in mortality during the
millennium. However, after the final allocation of our Father’s children to
their eternal rewards, no more such ordinances will be performed. Those who
attain salvation in the celestial kingdom, but not exaltation, will remain in
their saved condition forever, as is recorded in the Doctrine and Covenants.
For
these angels did not abide my law; therefore, they cannot be enlarged, but
remain separately and singly, without exaltation, in their saved condition, to
all eternity; and from henceforth are not gods, but are angels of God forever
and ever (D&C 132:17).
Gramps