GUIDE TO THE SCRIPTURES
Paradise
See also Heaven

That part of the spirit world in which the righteous spirits who have departed from this life await the resurrection of the body. It is a condition of happiness and peace.

Paradise is also used in the scriptures to mean the world of spirits (Luke 23: 43), the celestial kingdom (2 Cor. 12: 4), and the glorified millennial condition of the earth (A of F 1: 10).

To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God, Rev. 2: 7. The paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the righteous, 2 Ne. 9: 13. The spirits of the righteous are received into a state of happiness, which is called paradise, Alma 40: 11-12. All the disciples of Jesus had gone to the paradise of God, save it were three, 4 Ne. 1: 14. I soon go to rest in the paradise of God, Moro. 10: 34. Christ ministered to the righteous spirits in paradise, D&C 138.