Where the Deed and the Glory are One

there shall be a great work in the land, even among the Gentiles, for their folly and their abominations shall be made manifest in the eyes of all people.

D&C 35:7

Revealing folly and abominations is a great work.  It is a form of greatness.  Why?

To paraphrase Confucius, all glory begins with the rectification of names.  Glory is a true appreciation of someone’s deeds.  So true glory comes from establishing the truth of each person and their deeds.  Glory consists of the merited love and praise we receive for our goodness.   But where anything depends on the perception of others there is a possibility of a gap between the perception and the thing perceived, love and praise where it is thought to be merited but it is not.

Bringing perception in complete union with reality is a task worth of a God.  Is this why the Holy Ghost, a member of the Godhead, interpenetrates?  Is this why the Atonement seems to involve a total communion between Christ and every man and woman?

Judgment therefore is a form of greatness and Judgment Day is not an arbitrary imposition but a necessary fulfillment of God’s nature and our need for true recognition.  Every kingdom is a kingdom of glory because everyone there knows in the presence of God that they had some worthy principle about them that He, the Almighty, found worthy.