A Study of the Messiah and His Mission
according to Holy Scriptures both
Ancient and Modern by James E. Talmage
CHAPTER 1 Introduction
It is a matter of history that, at or near the beginning of what has since come to be known as the Christian era, the Man Jesus, surnamed the Christ, was born in Bethlehem of Judea…
CHAPTER 2 Preexistence and Foreordination of the Christ
We affirm, on the authority of Holy Scripture, that the Being who is known among men as Jesus of Nazareth, and by all who acknowledge His Godhood as Jesus the Christ, existed with the Father prior to birth in the flesh; and that in the preexistent state He was chosen and ordained to be the one and only Savior and Redeemer of the human race…
CHAPTER 3 The Need of a Redeemer
We have heretofore shown that the entire human race existed as spirit-beings in the primeval world, and that for the purpose of making possible to them the experiences of mortality this earth was created.
CHAPTER 4 The Antemortal Godship of Christ
It now becomes our purpose to inquire as to the position and status of Jesus the Christ in the antemortal world, from the period of the solemn council in heaven, in which He was chosen to be the future Savior and Redeemer of mankind…
CHAPTER 5 Earthly Advent of the Christ Predicted
The coming of Christ to earth to tabernacle in the flesh was no unexpected or unheralded event…
CHAPTER 6 The Meridian of Time
Unto Moses, with whom the Lord spake "face to face, as a man speaketh unto his friend," the course of the human race, both as then past and future, was made known; and the coming of the Redeemer was recognized by him as the event of greatest import in all the happenings to which the earth and its inhabitants would be witness…