“A Great Many Thousand Years Before His Coming”

Joseph F. McConkie, Robert L. Millet
The atonement of Jesus Christ is truly endless and eternal. It is infinite. It is timeless, stretching from the period before the world was until the days when mortal time shall be no more. Adam and his children repented of their sins in the name of, and by virtue of the blood shed by, Jesus Christ, precious blood which would not be spilt till four thousand years later.

Doctrinal Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 3

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