“The Kingdom Prepared for Him from the Foundation of the World”
Those who kept the statutes and commandments of God in their first estate, who were true and faithful to every trust in the premortal existence, were promised certain blessings, including thrones, principalities, and powers associated with eternal life and the everlasting continuation of the family-all on a conditional basis. When they come to earth, receive the gospel and its attendant covenants and ordinances, and live in such a manner as to merit the gifts and blessings of the Spirit, they qualify in time (either here or hereafter) to receive unconditionally what they had been promised before they came here. That is to say, their calling and election to eternal life-which had its origin in the first estate-is made sure.
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