In brief, ages before, they lived and died as all mortals and were saved in a Celestial glory. There, in the course of an age, they became the father and mother of countless spiritual children. These spiritual children no doubt also included those from the other wives of Adam and from his sons and grandsons saved in the same degree of Celestial glory with Adam. The gods met, and Adam was set apart to be the God of a new world soon to be created. Adam’s first born, his most righteous spiritual son, “our Elder Brother,” was likewise set apart in that Council to be our Savior, “Who verily was foreordained,” says Peter, “before the foundation of the World, but was manifest in these last times for you.” Thus, our Jesus, also Enoch, Noah, Abraham, Moses, and Joseph Smith, were likewise set apart to be Gods and leaders of various dispensations. This Jesus was also to be clothed and invested with authority and power to be his Father’s right-hand son, the manager of his Kingdom, and our Judge. He, our Christ, also greatly assisted in the creation of this world. (John, Ch. 1.)

Job saw in vision himself and this great host of spiritual children all assembled to witness the laying of the foundation of this earth (38:4-7). Adam and his right-hand son, our Savior, was there. Adam was also assisted in this creation by his God, sometime referred to as Eloheim, and his Savior, known as Jehovah the Great. At or near the end of our mortal age, which will be near the closing scenes of the great Zion Kingdom and the second coming of our Jesus Christ, this Adam also known as the Ancient of Days, will appear. He will then call in all Priesthood commissions of the ages and then surrender all power and glory to his personal Christ, Jehovah the Great, who will also appear at that tie. Then will be enacted that great scene and drama as witnessed in vision by Daniel. It will be the coming of Adam’s Christ (not our Son of Man) but says Daniel, “ONE LIKE the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of Days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him” (The Ancient of Days or Adam) “dominion and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him; his dominion is an everlasting dominion.” (7:13, 14.)

This will be the final crowning of Adam as our supreme God. (“As God is man may become.”) In the Book of Mormon we read, “Adam fell that men might be; and men are, that they might have joy;” that is, we must pass through mortality before we can enjoy a Celestial glory. They, Adam and Eve, were immortal beings, but says Eliza R. Snow (wife of Joseph Smith), “They ate of the trees of mortal life, and partook of the elements of this earth that they might again become mortal for their children’s sake. They fell that another world might have a probation, redemption, and resurrection.