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TOM - I read your recent post(JERRY) regarding the question as to which prophets were resurrected – was then Adam not resurrected? Or is that part of Adam’s role in the meeting in Missouri prior to the Second Coming?
JOEL - No solid scriptures or prophetic statements, but past LDS scholars assume that Adam (Michael the Arch angel) would be included in beings who have already been resurrected because of his prominence in God's plan of salvation and so that he could appear as an angel in connection with the restoration of the gospel along with Peter James and John, according to the following scriptures:
20 And again, what do we hear? Glad tidings from Cumorah! Moroni, an angel from heaven, declaring the fulfilment of the prophets—the book to be revealed. A voice of the Lord in the wilderness of Fayette, Seneca county, declaring the three witnesses to bear record of the book! The voice of Michael on the banks of the Susquehanna, detecting the devil when he appeared as an angel of light! The voice of Peter, James, and John in the
wilderness between Harmony, Susquehanna county, and Colesville, Broome county, on the Susquehanna river, declaring themselves as possessing the keys of the kingdom, and of the dispensation of the fulness of times!
21 And again, the voice of God in the chamber of old Father Whitmer, in Fayette, Seneca county, and at sundry times, and in divers places through all the travels and tribulations of this Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints! And the voice of Michael, the archangel; the voice of Gabriel, and of Raphael, and of divers angels, from Michael or Adam down to the present time, all declaring their dispensation, their rights, their keys, their honors,
their majesty and glory, and the power of their priesthood; giving line upon line, precept upon precept; here a little, and there a little; giving us consolation by holding forth that which is to come, confirming our hope! (D&C 128: 20-21)
And from Parley P. Pratt:
"The first general resurrection took place in connection with the resurrection of Jesus Christ. This included the Saints and Prophets of both hemispheres, from Adam down to John the Baptist; or, in other words, those who died in Christ before his resurrection." (Key to the Science of Theology" Parley P. Pratt)
There is nothing in the scriptures to indicate exactly when he was resurrected. In the book "Man Adam", Millet and McConkie suggest the following:
"Then, after the resurrection was instituted in the meridian of time (and it seems only right that Adam would have been one of the first persons, if not the first one, resurrected after Christ), Adam's base of operation would be from wherever such righteous resurrected beings go to await the time when this earth will become celestialized and become their eternal home." ("Man Adam" by Robert L. Millet, Joseph Fielding McConkie)
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