Life Eternal

The Messiah taught that eternal life is to know God the Father and Jesus Christ whom He sent. This is not knowledge about God—it is a direct, personal, and transformative relationship. It is the very life God lives, shared with those who draw near to Him through the means He has appointed.

This knowing does not come all at once. It unfolds according to divine law and order, which is eternal and is being restored. God's work proceeds in stages, each building upon the last, and no stage can be skipped without loss.

The Work of the Son

The first work is the work of the Son. Through faith in Jesus Christ, repentance, humility, and obedience, sin is overcome, the soul is redeemed, and a person becomes saved. This work cleanses, heals, and prepares the individual.

Without completing this work, no one can advance further. The work of the Son addresses the fallen condition of every person—the guilt, the weakness, the separation from God that came through transgression. It is deeply personal. Each must come to Christ individually, confess their sins, and receive His grace.

But forgiveness alone is not the end. The work of the Son is to bring people unto the Father.

The Son does not keep those He redeems for Himself. He presents them to the Father, that they might know Him also, and enter into the fullness of divine life.

The Work of the Father

When the work of the Son is fulfilled in a person, the work of the Father may begin. The work of the Father is higher, communal, and covenantal. It gathers individuals into oneness with God and with one another.

This oneness is not symbolic. It is real, lived, and embodied. It is the original Holy Order established with Adam and preserved through the Fathers. Life eternal is to become one with the Gods, as God is one with Them. Oneness of heart, mind, will, and life is the defining mark of godliness.

Separation, isolation, and self-preservation belong to the dominion of the adversary. Those who remain separate, even while professing faith, cannot enter the fullness of God.

Covenant and Ordinance

Entrance into the Holy Order requires covenant and ordinance. God knows, immutably, that transformation occurs through binding commitments enacted in obedience.

Covenants unite lives. They bind us to God and to one another in ways that mere agreement cannot achieve.

Ordinances bind heaven and earth. Through these sacred acts, the flesh itself is brought into harmony with divine law.

This is why the temple stands at the culmination of worship. It is where the highest ordinances are performed and the fullest covenants are made. It is also the reason Elijah comes in the latter days—that hearts may turn to the Fathers, from Adam through the patriarchs—so that we not only worship as they worshiped, but are adopted into the household of God from Adam through Abraham and Israel, becoming one family under God.

The Necessity of Gathering

This order cannot be lived alone. Eternal life requires gathering.

God calls His people to come out of Babylon—to separate from systems built on fear, violence, possession, and self-rule—and to unite with others in covenant communities patterned after the family of God. Protection, endurance, and preservation come through unity, not isolation.

This is what Enoch understood. When he preached repentance, those who responded did not merely adopt beliefs—they joined themselves to his household. They became part of his extended family, dwelling together, worshiping together, and living in righteousness according to the ancient order. In time, they became of one heart and one mind, and God came to dwell among them.

This is Zion: not an institution or a location, but a family aligned with heaven.

The Law of Love

Love is the governing law of this order. Each submits to the other in service. Blessings are never retained for private use but are given freely.

Grace flows only where it is passed on. Power remains only where sacrifice is embraced. Those who receive and do not give lose what they have received.

This is why the worship practices described throughout this site—prayer, covenant meals, the feasts—are centered in the family and shared with others. Worship is never meant to be hoarded. It flows outward, binding families together and drawing all who participate closer to God.

The Turning of Hearts

The hearts of the children must turn to the Fathers. The ancient patriarchs—Adam, Enoch, Noah, Abraham—live and minister by divine law, and their promises must be received.

Through the sealing power associated with Elijah, generations are bound together, families are protected, and the faithful are sealed against the coming destruction. Without this sealing, no individual or household can stand in the final days.

This is why family unity matters, why the temple ordinances that bind generations to the fathers matter. God's work is not merely to save individuals—it is to create an eternal family. This family did not begin with Jacob (Israel) and his twelve sons, nor did it begin with Abraham, Melchizedek, Noah, Enoch, or Seth—it began with Adam. While Adam is the father of the human race, it is only those who seal themselves to Adam in this life who are part of his eternal family. Eternal family is life eternal.

Zion: The Living Temple

Zion is a living temple. Every soul has a place. Some are pillars, others are gathered and adopted, but all are fitly framed together. This ordered family is the New Jerusalem, the Bride, and the dwelling place of God with humanity.

To be outside this order is to be outside eternal life's fullness.

God is restoring an ancient, familial, covenant-based order of life in preparation for the end of the age. Life eternal is not merely about personal redemption but about becoming one with God and with one another, through covenant, ordinance, sacrifice, and love.

Those who remain isolated, individualistic, or unwilling to fully give themselves will not endure what is coming. Those who gather, unite, and submit to the divine family order will be preserved and exalted.

The Invitation

The path to life eternal is open. It begins with the work of the Son—coming to Christ in faith and repentance. It continues through the worship practices God has appointed—prayer, revelation, covenant, the feasts. And it leads to gathering with others who walk the same path, becoming one heart and one mind, preparing to receive God Himself.

This is not religion. This is transformation. This is becoming the kind of people among whom God can dwell.