What is the Abrahamic Covenant?

Hey guys, so within The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints you might hear talk about something called the “Abrahamic Covenant.” In this episode, we’re going to talk about what this covenant is to Latter-day Saints, and why it’s so incredibly important. There are a ton of scriptures that apply to this subject. We won’t read them all here, but we’ll put references up on the screen throughout the video, which you can pause to read if you’d like. Let’s do it!

Alright, so at its core, a covenant is a promise. In the Old Testament and in Latter-day Saint scripture, we learn about a very important, multifaceted covenant that God made with the Old Testament patriarch, Abraham, because of his faithfulness. God also promises to renew that covenant with Abraham’s descendants. It’s renewed with Abraham’s son, Isaac, and Isaac’s son, Jacob. We’re going to simplify the promises made to Abraham by dividing them into 3 categories, the 3 Ps: Promised lands; Posterity; and Priesthood-slash-Gospel.

God promised Abraham’s descendants a promised land for them to inherit. It’s what everybody is singing about in The Prince of Egypt. Following this covenant pattern, at different times, God has also promised different lands to different peoples. Abraham was also promised an innumerable posterity, numbered “as the dust of the earth,” through which, all the nations of the earth would be blessed. And indeed, all the nations of the earth have been blessed through a descendant of Abraham by the name of Jesus Christ. But in another way, that promise is still being fulfilled today as the family of Abraham takes the gospel of Jesus Christ to the world, which brings us to the third set of promised blessings: That Abraham’s posterity would have access to the priesthood of God and the gospel, which they would be responsible for sharing with the world.

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