While studying in the New Testament about Nicodemus' visit to Jesus1, I read in the Church's New Testament Institute Manual the following quote by Joseph Fielding Smith:
"The kingdom of God mentioned by the Savior in his conversation with Nicodemus points clearly to the fact that it is the celestial kingdom that is meant. This is also implied in the instructions given by our Savior to his apostles when he left them. They were to go into all the world and preach the gospel, all who accepted and were baptized should enter the celestial kingdom, but all others would be damned, or be assigned to one of the other kingdoms."2
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