Week # 32

TEMPLES

" Temple work. . . gives a wonderful opportunity for keeping alive our spiritual knowledge and strength. . . .  The mighty perspective of eternity is unraveled before us in the holy temples;  we see time from its infinite beginning to its endless end;  and the drama of eternal life is unfolded before us.  Then I see more clearly my place amidst the things of the universe,  my place among the purposes of God;  I am better able to place myself where I belong, and I am better able to value and to weigh,  to separate and to organize the common, ordinary duties of my life, so that the little things shall not oppress me or take away my vision of the greater things that God has given us."  (John A. Widstoe, in Conference Report, April 1922, pp.  97-98).

Questions and Activities

• Why has the Lord commanded his people to build temples?
• What blessings has the Lord promised to give through the temple?
• What is the significance of each temple ordinance in the plan of salvation?
• What is the history and future of temples?
• What blessings have you received because of the temple?
• What experiences have strengthened your testimony of temple work?
• What were your feelings as you attended the temple most recently?

Topical Guide

Baptism for the Dead

Book of Remembrance

Endowment, Endow

Genealogy and Temple Work

Mount

Salvation for the Dead

Sanctuary

Temple, House of the Lord

Scriptures

2 Nephi 5

Exodus 26, 40

Ezekiel 40-44, 46-47

John 2

D&C 124

Bible Dictionary

Elijah

Genealogy

Holy of Holies

Tabernacle

Temple

Temple of Herod

Temple of Solomon

Temple of Zerubbabel

Temple on Mount Gerizim

Other Sources

Gospel Principles, chapter 40

Truth Restored, chapter 5, pp. 47-40;  and chapter  7,  pp. 70-72