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The Resurrected Will Not Live On Earth

Most of the scriptures which speak of an eternal inheritance on this earth, are referring to the time after the earth has received its final change, at the end of Christ's millennial reign. The change we are talking about will be similar to the change that took place in the city of Enoch before it was taken up. Please read the following:

That the people, and the city, and the foundations of the earth on which it stood, had partaken of so much of the immortal elements, bestowed upon them by God through the teachings of Enoch, that it became philosophically impossible for them to remain any longer upon the earth; consequently, Enoch and his people, with the city which they occupied, and the foundations on which it stood, with a large piece of earth immediately connected with the foundations and the city, had assumed an aerial position within the limits of our solar system; and this in consequence of their faith. (Joseph Young, Organization of the Seventies, p.11)

The prophet Joseph Fielding Smith understood this dynamic and made the point clear. Please read the following:.

It would be inconsistent for mortals and immortals to dwell together. The resurrected Saints and Christ will visit as Christ did with his disciples for forty days after his resurrection. Their natural abode, however, must be on some celestial world until this world is finally celestialized. (Joseph Fielding Smith, Church History and Modern Revelation, vol.2,p.217)