Another great change happened nearly two thousand years after the earth was made. It was baptized by water. A great flow of water come, the great deep was broken up, the windows of heaven were opened from on high, and the waters prevailed upon the face of the earth, sweeping away all wickedness and transgression-a similitude of baptism for the remission of sins. God requires the children of men to be baptized. What for? For the remission of sins. So he required our globe to be baptized by a flow of waters, and all of its sins were washed away, not one sin remaining.


Journal of Discourses 21:323 (August 1, 1880). - Baptism of the Earth

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Another great change happened nearly two thousand years after the earth was made. It was baptized by water. A great flow of water come, the great...

Another great change happened nearly two thousand years after the earth was made. It was baptized by water. A great flow of water come, the great...

Another great change happened nearly two thousand years after the earth was made. It was baptized by water. A great flow of water come, the great...

Another great change happened nearly two thousand years after the earth was made. It was baptized by water. A great flow of water come, the great...