Is God losing the War?

This was a question posed in class on Sunday. At first I was confused what the Instructor was talking about. How could you think God was losing the war? The answer is clearly No, God is not losing the war and then it hit me. The instructor views winning differently than me and then something at the back of my mind, that has seemed odd to me for many years, became very clear.

In Moses 1:39 it states, “For behold, this is my work and my glory—to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.” It has always seemed odd to me that both immortality and eternal life are included because to me eternal life requires immortality and thus restating the obvious, which is a common thing in the scripture, but as I’ve looked more into those seeming repeats I have found recently that they are not repeats at all. For example, the last one I looked at was, “Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth” from Genesis 9:1 and other scriptures. God is NOT saying, have babies, have babies, and have more babies, but that is a topic for another time.

It was apparent to me that the instructor thinks that if the majority of Gods children here on Earth do not obtain Eternal life then God is losing the war. That thing that hit me was that in declaring what his work is; he is telling the spectrum of what he is going to do for man. Through Christ’s resurrection, all of God’s children will be resurrected, and in that regard the enemy has already lost, the only thing to determine is how badly.

Often as members of the LDS church since the existence of the church is to help people come unto Christ so they can receive Eternal Life in the Celestial Kingdom we forget that God has also prepared other Kingdoms of Glories for those that never obtain Eternal life. The battle is already over the war of the whole is over, the only thing left is the battle over the individual.

How much are we willing to turn over our wills to Gods so that he my work a truly marvels work and a wonder in us. This battle over the individual is raging on for each of us living and dead, until the second estate is completed and we receive of that first unconditional gift, The Resurrection.