The Resurrection of Our Dead
Today is the anniversary of my little daughter’s death, many years ago. You can hear more about her in the Betsey Pearl tab above.
We are in the run up to Easter, and so my thoughts today are not just on the resurrection of the body, or of my body, but of the restoration of the bodies of my loved ones. The Restoration doctrines of sealing and family are not really new additions to the gospel of atonement and resurrection; rather they are just working out its implications.
Christ was resurrected in the flesh to be with his friends in the flesh. I look forward to that Resurrection to. Not to be a body alone in the world, but to walk and talk with my friends, to hold my wife, to hold my little Betsey.
The corporal resurrection is a corporate resurrection. It is not the resurrection of the dead we want, but the resurrection of our dead, and ultimately they are all ours. But today there is one of that number who I am looking forward to seeing more than others.
Eric
March 13, 2025
Are you familiar with the story of one Zeke Johnson, of Blanding, Utah who reported seeing a little girl be resurrected when his plow disturbed her bones?
https://www.familysearch.org/en/memories/memory/24842643
G.
March 13, 2025
No, thank you
John Mansfield
March 13, 2025
“When we lie down we contemplate how we may rise in the morning; and it is pleasing for friends to lie down together, locked in the arms of love, to sleep and wake in each other’s embrace and renew their conversation. [ . . . ] So plain was the vision, that I actually saw men, before they had ascended from the tomb, as though they were getting up slowly. They took each other by the hand and said to each other, ‘My father, my son, my mother, my daughter, my brother, my sister.’ And when the voice calls for the dead to arise, suppose I am laid by the side of my father, what would be the first joy of my heart? To meet my father, my mother, my brother, my sister; and when they are by my side, I embrace them and they me.”
Evenstar
March 13, 2025
That Zeke Johnson story is a family one for me, I’m one of his descendants.
Zen
March 15, 2025
Don’t just leave that there, Evenstar.
Do you have more details?
Evenstar
March 15, 2025
I don’t have more details but the linked account is excellent and I always thought it was a wonderful bit of family history.