FLDS Priesthood History Class For 5-8th Grade Students

Taught by Warren Jeffs - Alta Academy (Sandy, Utah)

Tape # 4 – November 8, 1995

Subject: The Fall of Adam
A one-year old can be undressed and not feel guilty, but when you come to the age of
accountability (age 8) and you're uncovered, you feel guilty. You know it's wrong. Yon partake of the
tree of life by just choosing to obey. You young people are not allowed to know right now, what Father
Adam actually did wrong, to lose his celestial state. To describe their innocence (Father Adam and
Mothers Eve), the parable says they were naked and felt like there was nothing wrong with it. The
devil will tell many truths to get you to believe one lie.
The Lord first cursed the serpent. The curse placed on Women was that when they had
children, they would suffer nearly to death. The blessing on the woman was – and the only way
she could ever be happy was – that she would let her husband, a faithful man, rule over her. That
was the only way back to Heavenly Father for the woman.
The Lord said to Adam, "Because you listened to your wife and did what she wanted you to,
you will be cursed. You will have to work for your food." We are fallen beings. When their children
became mortal, they were forever shut out of heaven unless they chose the tree of life, or the good and
rejected and stayed away from the forbidden tree, or sin and evil.
We have placed before us, the very same trees - or good and evil - and you are here through the
temptation and weakness of your body, to choose what you will do. The tree of life is the blessings of
priesthood that come through obeying our prophet and your parents. The tree of death, or the
forbidden fruit, is to rebel against priesthood and turn away from your parents and our prophet.
Father Michael (Adam) had to partake of the forbidden fruit so that we could be born here and have
the privilege of proving our faith, to show that we would choose the tree of life, or the priesthood way,
and reject the forbidden tree, or rebellion to priesthood.
You don't have to partake of evil to know that it is evil. You have already partaken, by being
born into mortality, and the devil has already been tempting you. Sometimes you're tempted to do
wrong and you feel sad, even for the temptation of doing wrong. You have tasted of the bitter and now
you know the difference between good and evil.
Know this great warning. You are shut out of heaven forever unless you choose the tree of
life - the priesthood way. That is the warning. We've told you what happens to the disobedient.
They will never see Heavenly Father again. We are here to taste the bitter, that we can know the
sweet. You know good is good because you felt the temptation - that evil desire inside of you to do bad
- the devil is the one that brings to your mind evil desires. If you choose to partake of the ways of sin
and rebellion, be warned, you may be shut out of heaven forever unless you partake of the tree of life.
Anything wrong is forbidden fruit. It's not actually something you eat, but something you do or
want - whatever is wrong that you shouldn't do. Father Michael had to eat the forbidden fruit so he
could obey the higher law, the higher commandment, to give his children earthly bodies. He had to do
it. The worldly people called Adam a very wicked man because he did something bad. There is no way
he was wicked. He is a God who obeyed when he partook of the forbidden fruit. He was a very
righteous man in doing what he did. He is our Father in Heaven.
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November 9, 1995
Subject: Cain and Abel
Review of previous day's class… The curse that was placed on Adam was that he had to work
for his food and for his salvation. The curse on the women - all you girls should know...You need to
write in your notes that the woman is to obey her husband as he obeys the prophet. She does not
have to obey her husband in doing wrong and leaving this work. If a man does wrong and leaves this
work, she does not have to follow him. So, the rule is, she obeys her husband as he obeys the Lord or
the prophet.
Today, our bodies are corrupt and fallen more than ever. Cain loved Satan more than God,
meaning that he did not obey his father, Adam. Abel was a very obedient boy, taught the very same as
Cain -taught to repent, to have faith in our Lord Jesus Christ, to be baptized, and receive the gift of the
holy ghost by the laying on of hands. All of you young people should be in that situation. Abel
believed and obeyed. Cain disobeyed, so he was rebuked. He started to feel bad. He accused the Lord
of favoritism. These are the words to Cain and to all of us: "If thou doest well, you shall be accepted,
and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door and Satan desireth to have thee." This is the law of
obedience. The Lord will accept us if we just obey.
The Lord said "If you turn traitor, you will be cursed." In reality, it is a great blessing that the
Lord Himself, does not appear to wicked people. Once they had that blessing, then turned against Him,
they would get the greatest cursing. You know, it's who you love that you obey, and Satan was the one
Cain loved. He made all his friends join with him in a secret promise, or a secret combination, which
was that they would secretly do evil and protect each other in that evil. He said "Will you swear with a
blood oath that you will die, and we will kill you, before you will ever tell. . . ?" They said "Yes.” He
killed Able, who had the priesthood, because he did not want to submit to Able. The Lord cursed Cain
and cast out from among the people and ever since then he has been a wanderer upon the earth. He
was cursed with a black skin and he is the father of the Negro people. He has great power, can appear
and disappear. He is used by the devil, as a mortal man, to do great evils.
Those spirits in heaven who said Jesus is right but He did wrong in casting Lucifer out - they
became the children of Cain. They are cursed with a black skin so we can know they can never get
their priesthood blessings until everybody else has been given the privilege – at the end of the
millennium. If you young people were to marry a Negro, you could not be a priesthood person,
even if you repented. You could not stay in this work.
The great church that is called the Mormon Church has apostatized. They rejected the
priesthood. They got rid of plural marriage. They lost their priesthood blessings. In 1978, the president
of that apostate church, Spencer Kimball, claims to have received a revelation that says the Negro
could have the priesthood blessings. Uncle Roy told us that the devil appeared in the temple and
deceived that man. When he wrote that revelation, that church became the great and terrible church in
the earth.
Today, you can see a black man with a white woman, etc. A great evil has happened on this
land because the devil knows that if all people have Negro blood, there will be nobody worthy to have
the priesthood. The devil is trying to get people to go out and marry and mix with the world, even
different colored people. That is why we marry only who the prophet says - because if you marry
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anybody out in the world, there's a chance they could have Negro blood in them. That is another
important thing in priesthood marriage. We are the true church of Jesus Christ and we are here to teach
you the true way back to heavenly father. The priesthood has more power than the devil and even more
power than Cain. Stay close to your priesthood head and you will be protected. Learn those lessons of
the story of Cain and Able - the story of obedience.