Moroni 12:24
And now I bid unto all, farewell. I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, until my spirit and body shall again reunite, and I am brought forth triumphant through the air, to meet you before the pleasing bar of the great Jehovah, the Eternal Judge of both quick and dead. Amen.
From this one verse it sounds like we will be resurrected before we are judged, and be judged by Jesus himself.
It also sounds like we get to take a wee rest from the struggles of this mortal existence. But in Moroni's shoes, he has also been chased for years by the Lamanites. So it will be a rest from all of that.
When Moroni came to show the plates to Joseph it is assumed that Moroni has been resurrected already.
So somewhere between the end of the book of mormon and the showing of the plates Moroni as resurrected with a glorified body.
| 1st Ressurection | 2nd Ressurection |
| A.M. | A.M. |
| P.M. | P.M |
The morning of the first resurrection began on the day the Lord was resurrected and it will end on the day he returns for his Second Coming.
The Millenium will be the P.M. of the 1st Resurrection, and when the 1000 years is complete the second resurrection will begin.
Those resurrected during the first resurection will receive a glorified body. Those during the second resurrection are the terrestial and telestial candidates and they will have their bodies but not as 'shiney'. They will be more suitable and and more comfortable for their future state of living.
3 Nephi 23:7-13
Samuel the Lamanite prophesied (Helaman 14) that the three days of signs before Jesus would visit the Nephites would include the resurrection of people.
In 3 Nephi Jesus inquires if that was true or not? Nephi tells him it was and Jesus wonders why it had not been written down. It is then written down.
So, my questions are, if people are resurrected can they and do they just live and exist among us.
Spirits can manifest themselves and have contact with the mortal world before they are born and after they die. The veil is sometimes really thin and some people have the gift of discernment that they know between spirits and mortals. It is speculated that the site of the spirit world exists on earth, if this is true then surely, with enough faith we could see the spirit world, or with the gift and power of the Holy Ghost.
I imagine it's easy to conceal spirits from mortals, but surely resurrected beings would be harder to be invisble.
And then there's the whole concept of being twinkled or translated. Where we don't have to die, but are just changed from mortal to immortal.
Blows my mind. All the time.
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