Obadiah - Saviors “up on Mount Zion”

The temple delivers the faithful through covenants and ordinances that prepare us to return to the presence of our Father in Heaven. Furthermore, it is through the work for the dead that provides salvation for all of God’s children and not just those living and able to visit the temple. We are the “saviors” today that enable those that have gone before the opportunity to receive the same ordinances required for eternal salvation. This is one reason that our worthiness and dedication to service in the temple are so importance. It is not only for our salvation but also literally for our families in a very eternal perspective. 

This is a pattern that has been established before our time on this earth and is an essential part of the Plan of Salvation. The Lord, Himself prepared a way for all of God’s children to not only learn of the gospel but to be blessed with the eternal blessings and protection that comes from its principles and ordinances. In Doctrine and Covenants 128:15 we read, “For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, as Paul says concerning the fathers—that they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.”

The temple represents the purity and salvation that is provided through the sacrifice made by our Savior on the earth. It is a sanctuary from the world and place where we can dwell in God’s presence and be taught what is necessary to guarantee our safe passage and entrance into the presence of our Father in Heaven for eternity.