Alma's talk to Zeezrom focuses on the outcome of our mortal condition.
His starting point is the atonement - the Messiah, explicitly identified as the "Son of God," and "the beginning and the end, the first and the last" (v. 39), will "come into the world to redeem his people" and "to take upon him the transgressions of those who believe on his name" opening the door for them to salvation and eternal life (v. 40). They are not saved "in their sins" (v. 34-36), for the cleansing power of the atonement enables them to become clean and ready to live in the presence of Him with whom "no unclean thing" can dwell (v. 37).
Those who reject the atonement remain wicked. The wicked share in the atonement's conquest of physical death, receiving a resurrected body, but even though their bodies are reunited with the spirit "in its perfect form" and "restored to its perfect frame" they stand in it before God with " a bright recollection" of all of their guilt (v. 43, 45).
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