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My yoke is easy, and my burden is light

Jesus Christ - The Father

In the book of Ether there is a very special and insightful event telling us many truths about Jesus Christ, us and the plan of salvation. Here are the main points I picked up while reading today:

A. Jesus Christ is The Father of all
He created the worlds (our planet and all other planets, stars, galaxies and possibly other inhabited planets). He is our Father, because He created Adam and Eve. And all this He did under the instructions of God, who send Him to do it for us.

B. Jesus Christ didn’t have body of flesh and blood beforehand.
He was the great Jehovah in the Old Testament, leading the Israelites from the cloud. We can suppose that similarly to the brother of Jacob, Moses had seen the finger of God writing down the Ten Commandments on the stone plates. Just like all of us, Jesus Christ had to be born on earth, live, die and through the resurrection receive a glorified, immortal body of flesh and bones - just like God. Then they both appeared to the young boy Joseph Smith.

C. The power of faith
The brother of Jared saw God because of his faith. It feels almost as if Jesus Christ was surprised of how strong the faith of the brother of Jared was that he couldn’t hold himself. Further more, at that time, the only way to have seen Jesus Christ (as he didn’t have flesh and bones) was thru faith, as if faith is this time machine, which gave the brother of Jared a glimpse of the future of Jehovah - receiving a perfected body of flesh and blood.
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