12.7.25

Is the most populated eternal kingdom, the Celestial Kingdom?


I thought that I had always been told that the Telestial Kingdom would be the most populated... why? Is the world of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints that pessimistic or that afreaid of rapists and murderers?

Let's think about this for a minute... Ok, maybe a minute more...

I personally think that there will be more people born on this Earth who will inheret the Celsestial Kingdom! Why? Is the world of members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints diagreeing with me? No... I just don't think that they are wondering about it! And, why should you wonder? I'm positive that some do, and I just do too!

So, if we all concede that there have been about 117 to 121 billion people born on this Earth, up until the year and including the year 2025, roughly 40–50% are believed to have died before the age of 5, most of them as infants (under 1 year old), then given conservative estimates that about there will have been about 45 billion infant deaths (under age 1) and a broader estimate including child mortality (under age 5), 50–60 billion deaths.

Now, since we know that all children who die before the age of eight will inherit the Celestial Kingdom (as the scripture reads in the book of Doctrine & Covenants, section 137, verse ten: "And I also beheld that all children who die before they arrive at the years of accountability are saved in the celestial kingdom of heaven."), that adds-up to about half of the deaths in this world...

Now, if we add to the population of the Celestial Kingdom every single person that is preached to in the spirit world and accepts the Gospel and their Savior and accepts their posthumous and vicarious baptism, and add every single member of the church who is baptized and is valient, as well as include every person who is mentally challenged to the point that they are not capable of choosing right and wrong (which is becoming more and more prevalent with births as of late...), we easily have a Celestial Kingdom that is more populous than the other two kingdoms--even combined! Even knowing that the Telestial Kingdom, according to the seventy sixth section of the Doctrine & Covenants, verse 109, "But behold, and lo, we saw the glory and the inhabitants of the telestial world, that they were as innumerable as the stars in the firmament of heaven, or as the sand upon the seashore", the Celestial Kingdom will be bigger than both the Telestial and the Terrestrial Kingdoms combined.

Now that's a whole-lot-of-bessed children of God!


JPS

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