Compiled by:
Robert Hyatt
April 2000

Luke 22:30
30 That ye may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom, and sit on thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

Otten & Caldwell, Sacred Truths of the Doctrine & Covenants, Vol.2, p.342
A Saint, who is one in deed and in truth, does not look for an immaterial heaven but he expects a heaven with lands, houses, cities, vegetation, rivers, and animals; with thrones, temples, palaces, kings, princes, priests, and angels; with food, raiment, musical instruments, etc.; all of which are material. Indeed the Saints' heaven is a redeemed, glorified, celestial material creation, inhabited by glorified material beings, male and female, organized into families, embracing all the relationships of husbands and wives, parents and children, where sorrow, crying, pain, and death will be known no more. Or to speak still more definitely, this earth, when glorified, is the Saints' eternal heaven. On it they expect to live, with body parts, and holy passions: on it they expect to move and have their being; to eat, drink, converse, worship, sing, play on musical instruments, engage in joyful, innocent, social amusements, visit neighboring towns and neighboring worlds: indeed, matter and its qualities and properties are the only being or things with which they expect to associate. If they embrace the Father, they expect to embrace a glorified, immortal, spiritual, material Personage; if they embrace the Son of God, they expect to embrace a spiritual Being of material flesh and bones, whose image is in the likeness of the Father; if they enjoy the society of the Holy Ghost, they expect to behold a glorious spiritual Personage, a material body of spirit; if they associate with the spirits of men or angels, they expect to find them material. (Millennial Star, Vol. 28, p. 722, November 17, 1866)

B.H. Roberts, The Seventy's Course in Theology, Third Year, p.179
But not only did the risen Messiah eat in the presence of His disciples, but with His resurrected hands He prepared a meal on the seashore for His own disciples, and invited them to partake of the food which He, with His resurrected hands, had provided. (John xxi:9-13, and Acts x:41.) Moreover, for forty days He continued ministering to His disciples after His resurrection, eating and drinking with them (Acts x:41, and Acts i:2, 3)

Bruce R. McConkie, A New Witness for the Articles of Faith, p.60 - p.61
The resurrected Lord Jesus invited great hosts of Nephites to feel the nail marks in his hands and feet and to thrust their hands into his riven side. His disciples in Jerusalem, assembled in the Upper Room on the very day of his resurrection had a similar privilege. To them he said: "Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have." And then in their presence he ate "a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb," that they might know and bear witness that his body was real and tangible and personal, one that could eat and digest food even as is the case with mortal bodies. (Luke 24:39-43.)

Bruce R. McConkie, The Promised Messiah, p.520
Cleopas and his fellow disciple immediately returned to Jerusalem, found the apostles and a congregation of saints who were eating in a closed upper room, and recited what had transpired. As they recounted their experiences with a Resurrected Being, that same Jesus, whose body was tangible and real, came through the wall of the room. He spoke, teaching doctrine, reciting that he had a body of flesh and bones which those present were invited to handle and feel. He was recognized; the congregation knew him. He asked for food, which he ate before them. The apostles felt the nail marks in his hands and feet and thrust their hands into the spear wound in his side, all to the end that this congregation of saints, this group of living witnesses, might know that a resurrected person has power over physical objects and yet is a personal being having a body of flesh and bones which can eat and digest food as though mortal. Surely the Master Teacher here crowns his and all other teaching about the nature of resurrected bodies! (Luke 24.)

Journal of Discourses, Vol.16, p.358, Orson Pratt, January 27, 1874
We read that, after Jesus rose from the dead, he appeared to his disciples while they were out fishing, and he called them to the shore and said--"Children, have ye any meat?" They soon discovered that it was the Lord who had appeared to them, and they came to the shore, and broiled some fish on a fire of coals, and Jesus partook with them, yet he was an immortal being. But whether it was necessary for him to eat in order to sustain himself is another question. But can immortal beings live without food? Yes, even the children of mortality can live without food when the Lord sees proper. For instance, Moses, on two difference occasions, when he went up into the mount, was there forty days and forty nights, and the Scripture says, expressly, that he neither ate nor drank during that time. Now, if a person in mortality could be sustained forty days and forty nights, on two occasions, as Moses was, why would it be necessary for an immortal personage to eat to preserve life. I think they eat, perhaps, because it is a pleasure, and, it may have certain beneficial tendencies that we know nothing about; but as they are raised to immortality it scarcely seems probable that that immortality will be dependent upon eating and drinking for its preservation. In the testimony of our Savior to his Apostles, we learn that resurrected beings will eat and drink, for says he--"Ye that have followed me in the regeneration shall sit upon twelve thrones judging the twelve tribes of Israel, and ye shall eat and drink at my table." When will that be? During the Millennium, after the resurrection of those twelve Apostles, and when Jesus descends from heaven they will descend with him, and when he sits upon this throne in one of the apartments of the Temple, the twelve Apostles will sit upon their thrones, each one having a separate tribe of Israel over whom he will reign; and when dinner is ready, or supper, as the case may be, they will sit down at the Lord's table, and will eat and drink in his presence. We might say much more in relation to this matter, but if there is anything revealed to prove that immortality is dependent upon eating and drinking, the same as our mortal lives are dependent upon, I am not aware of it.