Out of Their Prison
The Spirits in Prison, the Mission to the Dead, and One Family's Long Road Home
Can those who died without the gospel still find their way home?
Black & white edition selected. Every page prints in black and grey, and the Savior’s words appear in bold instead of red. The sample pages shown are from the full-color edition. See the same page in both.
Digital edition: EPUB, Kindle (MOBI) and PDF. Your copy is personalized for you: your name is printed inside the book, and it also carries a hidden digital watermark. The files open on any e-reader, phone, tablet or computer. It’s licensed for your personal use, so please don’t share or post it.
Kindle readers: download the EPUB and send it to your Kindle with Amazon’s free “Send to Kindle.” The MOBI file is for older Kindles loaded by USB cable.
Your download link appears as soon as checkout is complete, and again in your order confirmation email.
$45.99
Printed on demand: allow up to 10 business days for printing, then ground shipping. Books in one order ship together, with one shipping charge.
Countless millions died without ever hearing the name of Jesus Christ. Others heard it and turned away, or never sought Him with all their heart. Is the grave the end of God's mercy? This book follows the Lord's answer: from the Sheol of the Old Testament, to His visit to the spirits in prison, the keys Elijah restored and the vision of 1918. And it places the work squarely in our hands, in these latter days: "they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect" (D&C 128:15).
Through it runs the story of one imagined family across twenty-six centuries. Asher, a Levite singer, watches from the world of spirits as his brother Zerah, who chose the idol altars, waits in prison. The line runs on to a mill hand in Preston in 1837, to his daughter wading into the Mississippi to be baptized for him, and to a father in Arizona today, fighting the same anger his forefathers knew, who finds healing through family history and the temple.
Two pages from inside Tap to read
More: back cover and book details
About this book
- Where the spirits go, and why hell has so many names
- The Lord's visit to the spirit world
- The keys Elijah restored
- The ordinances that can only be done on earth, by those who love the dead
- The gathering of Israel on both sides of the veil
Woven through every chapter is one imagined family across twenty-six centuries, told by Asher, a Levite singer, and a grandson today. Their story is labeled as fiction.
From the back cover
What of the countless millions who died never knowing the word of God, and those who heard it and turned away? Is the grave the end of God's mercy?
“Thus was the gospel preached to those who had died in their sins, without a knowledge of the truth, or in transgression, having rejected the prophets.”Doctrine and Covenants 138:32
For nearly seven hundred years a Levite singer, killed on the temple steps in the days of King Manasseh, stood at the edge of paradise and sang across the gulf toward the brother who chose the idol altars. Then the Son of God came among the dead, organized His forces, and sent His messengers into the prison.
Drawing on the Bible, the Book of Mormon, the Doctrine and Covenants and the Pearl of Great Price, with ancient writings and Jewish tradition set apart and labeled, this book follows the mission to the dead from Sheol to the vision of 1918: the many rooms of the prison, the long silence of the apostasy, Elijah's keys, and the ordinances that can only be done on earth, in the flesh, by those who love the dead.
Woven through every chapter is the story of one family across twenty-six centuries, and of a grandson today whose choices still matter to the fathers who went before him.
Book details
| Full title | Out of Their Prison: The Spirits in Prison, the Mission to the Dead, and One Family's Long Road Home |
|---|---|
| Formats | Paperback and hardcover, 414 pages |
| Trim size | 7.5 x 9.25 inches |
| Interior | Color, on white paperBlack & white, on white paper |
| Narrator | Asher, an imagined Levite singer, and a grandson today (labeled as fiction) |
| Categories | The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints · Eschatology · Death, Grief and Bereavement |
| Topics | the spirit world, baptism for the dead, temple and family history work, Doctrine and Covenants 138, Elijah, the gathering of Israel |
| Readers | Adults; family history and temple patrons; anyone with loved ones beyond the veil |
Full color or black & white?
Each book comes in two printings. The black & white edition prints every page in black and grey, at a lower price. The Savior’s words and prophecies, shown in red in the full-color edition, appear in bold. This book has no color photographs; color is used for accents only, and those accents print in grey.
