What Happened to Enoch's Translated City? | Orson Pratt on Translation & the Orders of Glory

Send us Fan MailWhat is translation — and what became of Enoch's city that was "taken up" to heaven? In this episode, host Tia Smith continues her study of Enoch and translation by sharing an 1874 sermon from Elder Orson Pratt, delivered in the old Salt Lake Tabernacle (read in part by AI, since no recording exists).Elder Pratt reflects on humanity's deep longing to escape death, then teaches from the revelations given through Joseph Smith about those who were translated before the flood. He recounts how Enoch — the seventh generation from Adam — gathered a people who, after being taught the laws of God for 365 years, built a city of holiness where God dwelt among them, and were finally caught up into heaven, their whole city taken from the earth. He explains that these translated beings are "held in reserve" to return to the earth in the last days, and that in the meantime they have served as ministering angels — much like the Three Nephites — to those of the "terrestrial order." He also teaches, from early Church sources, that translated beings still undergo a change "equivalent to death" before the resurrection.Tia offers this as part of her ongoing study of the patterns of Enoch, Melchizedek, and the translated — patterns she believes are worth understanding and pondering in the temple as we approach the final part of this dispensation.Q: What is translation?A: In Latter-day Saint teaching, translation is a change granted to certain righteous people so they can continue God's work without tasting death as we know it. Elder Pratt teaches it is closely connected to the doctrine of resurrection, and that translated beings still pass through a change "equivalent to death" before the resurrection.Q: What happened to Enoch's city?A: According to the revelations given through Joseph Smith, Enoch's people were taught for 365 years, built a city of holiness where God dwelt among them, and were caught up into heaven — the whole city taken from the earth — to be "held in reserve" and return in the last days.Q: What have Enoch and his people been doing since?A: Elder Pratt teaches that, like the Three Nephites, they were granted their desire to serve as ministering angels — in their case to those of the "terrestrial order" — until the earth rests from wickedness and they return.Q: What are the "orders of glory" Elder Pratt describes?A: Drawing on the vision in Doctrine and Covenants 76, he describes the celestial, terrestrial, and telestial orders — the terrestrial being those who, among other things, did not have full opportunity to receive the gospel in mortality, and to whom ministering messengers are appointed.▶️ WATCH & LISTEN🎬 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@thinningoftheveil🌐 Website: https://www.thinningoftheveil.com🎧 Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/thinning-of-the-veil/id1753511394🟢 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6jWCfMHkZXwnSwy2b98J4M🎵 Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/a0a45561-d4c2-46d3-af8d-a1e967a21a25📖 BOOKPatterns of Revelation — Spiritual Foundations for Hearing God's Voice: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BW36MG9B📱 CONNECTInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/thinning.of.the.veilFacebook Group (Gathering of the Gatherers): https://www.facebook.com/groups/1429562078443774Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thinningoftheveil💛 SUPPORT THE SHOWVenmo: https://account.venmo.com/u/thinningoftheveilPayPal: https://paypal.me/thinningoftheveil✉️ Have you had a thinning of the veil experience? Email [email protected] — your testimony may be exactly what someone needs to hear.#ThinningOfTheVeil #Translation #Enoch #OrsonPratt #OrdersOfGlory #TempleWork #ComeFollowMe #LatterDaySaints #ZionsCamp #GatheringOfIsraelCITATIONS:All Nations Believe in a Future State of Existence—All Inherit the Curse in the Death of the Body—The Zion of Enoch Taken to the Bosom of God—Celestial, Terrestrial and Telestial Spheres—Baptism in Water Essential to Salvation—Divine Authority—Eternal Marriage Ordained of God.Discourse by Elder Orson Pratt, delivered in the Old Tabernacle, Salt Lake City, Sunday Afternoon, July 19, 1874:https://scriptures.byu.edu/#:t29827&Enoch:st&1371&1830&1880&j&n&30@0$EnochSupport the show