“The First Resurrection”

K. Douglas Bassett

Articles of Faith, Talmage, p. 385; D&C 76:50-70

“The righteous dead who lived from the day of Adam to the time when Christ broke the bands of death ‘were with Christ in his resurrection’ (D&C 133:54-55)… . All who were with Christ in his resurrection, and all who have so far been resurrected, have come forth with celestial bodies and will have an inheritance in the celestial kingdom (D&C 88:96-102). To those who lived before the resurrection of Christ, the day of his coming forth from the dead was known as the first resurrection. Abinadi and Alma, for instance, so considered it (Mosiah 15:21-25; Alma 40). To those who have lived since that day, the first resurrection is yet future and will take place at the time of the Second Coming (D&C 88:96-102).” (Bruce R. McConkie, Mormon Doctrine, pp. 639-640)

Latter-Day Commentary on the Book of Mormon

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