Better Together, Part 2

 In an often partially quoted remark by Denver, he said,

"To keep ideas pure, they cannot become subject to a hierarchy, controlled by an institution, or embedded inside any organization in this world.

I will leave no seat for another man to occupy. I will leave no institution for another man to compromise. You will not have another person who says," I sit in his seat." I won't even explain to you what seat it is I occupy. I want you [the group he's talking to] to occupy a seat with God, not as my equal, but **as my better** if I can help you." (Denver Snuffer, 40 Years of Mormonism, Talk 6; emphasis and inserts mine.)

This indicates not that there won't be a continuation of the Holy Order after the millennium, only that there will not be an institution that can be corrupted. There was no "seat" left to Abraham by Melchizedek, but there was an Order passed to him and his enclave.

Denver has said:

"Abraham is the father of the righteous and the prototype of the saved man in his generation because he was able to claw back out of a state of apostasy into a state of faithfulness, communing with God and renewing an order that had fallen into disuse everywhere except for a tiny enclave headed by someone [Melchizedek] who had been an antediluvian and who had the right (because the right continued right up into the flood) to be translated into Heaven, but he stayed behind to fulfill a mission. But having fulfilled the mission (that is, handing it off to Abraham), Melchizedek then likewise ascended and, with him, his city." (Righteousness, pg. 7, Salem, Utah, November 11, 2022; emphasis and inserts mine.)

Joseph Smith said,

"Christ and the resurrected Saints will reign over the earth during the thousand years. They will not probably dwell upon the earth but will visit it when they please, or when it is necessary to govern it [planet hopping, yo!]. There will be wicked men on the earth during the thousand years. The heathen nations who will not come up to worship will be visited with the judgments of God, and must eventually be destroyed from the earth." (Joseph Smith, December 30, 1842; emphasis and inserts mine.)

It's interesting to consider that while all of the antediluvians were taken off the Earth, Melchizedek and his "enclave" stayed behind to maintain a place of holiness on the Earth. People think Christ and the saints will hang around to govern during the millennium, but we know that isn't true. They'll visit when needed, just like they do now. Except the people will have a more sure knowledge of what's going on because there will be a temple at the center of a new society. But it will likely operate the same way it did at the time of Abraham and Melchizedek. Abraham was essentially a new Adam, which means Melchizedek essentially "reigned" (taught) during a sort of millennium until he could pass the creation off to someone else who was willing to stick around. Christ and the saints continued to govern through Abraham by visiting to give instruction as needed. It appears that's how it always works. 

One of the main things I find interesting is that Melchizedek's people stayed with him. Abraham's people stayed with him. The Holy Order is a family, and that family will continue into the millennium awaiting further instruction as needed from Christ and those who have been translated until another worthy people rise up to relieve that group, who will then "reign" until another worthy group rises up, etc. 

We are called to be "better" by continuing the government of God on earth as a family, rather than as some corruptible institution with rules and regulations, until we can be relieved by another future righteous group, and be taken to the heavens.

Yeah, we'll look at them stars when we're together.