J. L. Thompson provides a traditional LDS overview of the role and status of Adam/Michael in the preexistence.

Date
2022
Type
Book
Source
J. L. Thompson
LDS
Hearsay
Direct
Reference

J. L. Thompson, Worlds Without Number (Springville, UT: CFI, 2022), 60

Scribe/Publisher
CFI
People
J. L. Thompson
Audience
Reading Public
Transcription

First in order of the great and noble high priests after the Order of the Son of God was the archangel Michael, whose name literally means one “who is like God.” Michael was second in preeminence to the Firstborn. Of all that was done, it was Michael to whom the Father and the Son turned and gave instruction, and he caused it to be accomplished. Bruce R. McConkie taught that Michael, “by his diligence and obedience there, as one of the spirit son of God, he attained a stature and power second only to that of Christ, the Firstborn. None of all our father’s children equaled him in intelligence, and might, save Jesus only.”

BHR Staff Commentary

We must bear in mind that Michael is assigned to this planet, Earth. Many of the “great and noble ones” enumerated in our scriptures likewise are recognizable as those who appertain to this earth. We do not know if the high and holy calling of Michael, and others, is universal in its application, or if it is limited to this earth and those assigned to it. We likewise do not understand the universality of matters discussed below pertaining to the presentation of the plan of salvation and exaltation, and the acceptance of it by two-thirds of the spirit children of God, and rejection of it by one-third of the heavenly hosts—whether those hosts were all of the spirit offspring of God assigned to billions of worlds like our own, or if the discussion is limited to those assigned to our single planet. We likewise do not know if Lucifer, who became Satan, is the leader of a universal rebellion of all of God’s children, or only those assigned to our earth. For our purposes, we know that God says, “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man,” (Moses 1:37-39), when speaking of the innumerable worlds that are populated with His children. The implication appears to be that percentages and forms remain somewhat constant throughout all of creation—and Satan passively excuses his deceptive and destructive behavior as being identical to that which is committed in other worlds. (J. L. Thompson, Worlds Without Number [Springville, UT: CFI, 2022], 60n6)

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