Erin's Primary Talk About Temples

This morning I’m going to talk about temples. Temples are indeed important to many cultures around the world. Such as the Incas, Mayans, Buddhists, Isralites and especially the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Temples are special for performing special rituals. In some temples they preformed sacrifices such as blood sacrifices from animals. And in some cultures they would even perform human sacrifices. In the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints they perform special ordinances such as being sealed for all time and eternity and when you are twelve and have permission you can be baptized for the dead.  And we do this for many people because they have never heard the name Jesus Christ.

People build temples so that they can be somewhere where they can worship their God. And I think that Temples are also special because Heavenly Father himself walks through every temple of the Latter-day Saints temples. Jesus Christ visits the temples of the Latter-day Saints.

Back in the time when Christ lived the Jewish people would abuse Heavenly Father’s way of life of performing temple rituals and when Jesus Christ was with them  He told them and  I’m going to read what He told them. 

Doctrine and Covenants 45:18-19

18  And now ye behold this temple which is in Jerusalem which ye call the house of the God and your enemies  say that this house shall never fall.

19  But verily I say unto you that desolation shall come upon this generation as a thief in the night, and this people shall be destroyed and scattered round all nations.

At the time of His crucifixion the Veil in the temple was ripped in half and the temple was destroyed.

I think that today Heavenly Father is proud to look down on us because we are doing what He  wants us to do: to believe in the church and to follow His ways.