We've had it all wrong. It isn't Heavenly Father, it's Heavenly Farmer. The CK is like a giant Farmers Only shindig, where everyone has green Thummim. Pa Elohim is into small-scale agriculture, tooling around on his celestial John Deere that never breaks down and gets infinite miles per gallon. Meanwhile, Ma Elohim #23 milks the resurrected cows, Ma #58 slops the resurrected hogs and Ma #114 tosses feed to the resurrected chickens. The others are pregnant, tendin' the spirit chillun, trying out new manna recipes in the kitchen (anyone for manna cream pie?), or spinning flax into robes. Much like early Utah, but… forever, worlds without end.


Orson Pratt, July 25, 1852, Journal of Discourses, Vol. 1, pp. 292-94:

"O ye farmers, when you sleep in the grave, don't be afraid that your agricultural pursuits are forever at an end; don't be fearful that you will never get any more landed property; but if you be Saints, be of good cheer, for when you come up in the morning of the resurrection, behold! there is a new earth made, wherein dwells righteousness, and blessed are ye, for ye shall inhabit it. 'Blessed are the meek,' says our Saviour, 'for they shall inherit the earth,' though they have died without a foot of land. The Latter-day Saints were driven from one possession to another, until they were driven beyond the pale of civilization into the deserts, where it was supposed they would die, and that would be the last of them; but behold, they have a firm hold upon the promise that the meek shall inherit the earth, when they come here with immortal bodies capable of enjoying the earth.

"True, we can have plenty of the things of this life in their cursed condition; but what are all these things? They are nothing. We are looking for things in their immortal state, and farmers will have great farms upon the earth when it is so changed. 'But don't be so fast,' says one, 'don't you know that there are only about 197 millions of square miles, or about 126 thousand millions of acres, upon the surface of the globe? Will this accommodate all the inhabitants after the resurrection?' Yes; for if the earth should stand 8,000 years, or eighty centuries, and the population should be a thousand millions in every century, that would be eighty thousand millions of inhabitants; and we know that many centuries have passed that would not give the tenth part of this; but supposing this to be the number, there would then be over an acre and a half for each person upon the face of the globe…

"Look at the seventeen centuries that have passed away on the eastern hemisphere, during which time the sound of the Gospel has never been heard from the mouth of an authorized servant of God. Suppose now that out of the vast amount of the population of this earth, one in a hundred should receive the law of meekness, and be entitled to receive an inheritance upon the new earth; how much land would they receive? We answer, they would receive over 150 acres, which would be quite enough to raise manna, and to build some habitations upon, and some splendid mansions; it would be large enough to raise flax to make robes of, and to have beautiful orchards of fruit trees; it would be large enough to have our flower gardens, and everything the agriculturalist and the botanist want, and some to spare.

"What would be done with the spare portions?… Will not a man have his own family? Yes; he will also have his own mansion and farm, his own sons and daughters. And what else? Why, the fact is, man will continue to multiply and fill up this creation, inasmuch as it is not filled up by the resurrected Saints after it is made new."