I've been asked several times about the comment that Adam and Eve partook of the fruit "out of season" in the Elijah Talk. Since it's come up more than once, here's an answer I gave to one of those who inquired:
They would have eventually received the command to partake. If they had waited for that command, the "fall" would have introduced the kind of opposition experienced during the Millennium rather than the kind we now have. Opposites only required: 1) change and 2) death. Both will be present during the Millennium.
The Garden of Eden is an allegory, and we all pass through a "Fall from Eden" to come here. But there are many other worlds, see D&C 76: 24. Among these countless others, ours fell the greatest. See Moses 7: 36-37. We are singular in our fallen state, and qualify as the "most wicked" of any of God's creations. Here we suffer, but with the opportunity to grow by making sacrifice. We all came here to offer sacrifice. Just being here is a form of sacrifice, and we will all submit to death to leave here.
