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The Telestial Kingdom. As baptism is the door through which one enters the earthly kingdom of God and the gate to the heavenly kingdom, so hell is the gate to the telestial world. None will inhabit this kingdom who did not first suffer for their own sins in that part of the spirit prison known to us as hell. Having done so, having “paid the uttermost farthing” (Matthew 5:26), they then come forth clean from sin to the least of the kingdoms of glory, but a kingdom of glory nonetheless. Dramatizing the glory of this, the least of God’s kingdoms, the revelation states that it “surpasses all understanding” (D&C 76:89) … Those inheriting the telestial world constitute two major classes. First, there are those who declare allegiance to false religions, who used their pretended devotion to some principle, cause, or prophet, as an excuse to reject the fulness of the gospel when it was brought to them (D&C 76:99–101). Had their rejection of the gospel not been the result of their unwillingness to repent of their sins, or because they were honestly deceived, they would have come forth in the terrestrial resurrection. The second class of people comprising the telestial kingdom are “liars, and sorcerers, and adulterers, and whoremongers, and whosoever loves and makes a lie,” as well as idolaters and murderers (D&C 76:103; Revelation 21:8; 22:15). These are they of whom Alma said, “They have no part nor portion of the Spirit of the Lord; for behold, they chose evil works rather than good” (Alma 40:13). Of these the revelation declares: “Where God and Christ dwell they cannot come, worlds without end” (D&C 76:112).Share
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