Gen. 12:1, 2-"Now, the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee; and I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great."

Gen. 17:13-"And I will give unto thee and thy seed after thee, a land wherein thou art a stranger; all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God" (8).

Gen. 26:31 4-"Sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these countries, and I will perform the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father, and I will make thy seed to multiply as the stars of heaven. . . . and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed."

Gen. 28:3-"And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a multitude of people."

*Gen. l3:13-15 (14-17).

WHY CHOSEN

Gen. 18:17, 18-"Abraham shall surely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him? For I know him, that he will command his children and his household after him." (18, 19).

Deut. 7:8-"Because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bond men, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt."

Deut. 10:15-"Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day."

Deut 32:8, 9-"When the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance, when he separated the sons of Adam, he set the bounds of the people according to the number of the children of Israel. For the Lord's portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance."

BLESSINGS OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH TOGETHER

Ps. 114:1, 2-"When Israel went out of Egypt, the house of Jacob from a people of a strange language; Judah was his sanctuary, and Israel his dominion."

Judah. 23:6-"In his days Judah shall be saved, and Israel shall dwell safely; and this is his name whereby he shall be called, The Lord

Our Righteousness."

Judah. 33:7, 8-"And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities."

Jer. 51:5-"For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts."

Ezek. 37:19, 22-"Say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel his fellows, and will put them with him, even with the stick of Judah, and make them one stick, and they shall be one in mine hand. . . . And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all."

THE BLESSINGS OF JUDAH

JACOB'S BLESSING

Gen. 49:8, 10-"Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. . . . The sceptre shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until Shiloh come; and unto him shall the gathering of the people be."

MOSES' BLESSING

Deut. 33:7-"Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies."

A BLESSING THROUGH DAVID

Kings 8:19-"Yet the Lord would not destroy Judah for David his servant's sake, as he promised him to give him always a light, and to his children."

TO INHERIT THE LAND

Isa. 65:9-"And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains; and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there."

EPHRAIM AND ISRAEL COMPARED WITH JUDAH

Hosea 11:12-"Ephraim compasseth me about with lies, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the saints."

PUNISHMENT OF THOSE WHO INJURED JUDAH

Joel 3:19, 20-"Egypt shall be a desolation, and Edom shall be a desolate wilderness, for the violence against the children of Judah, because they have shed innocent blood in their land. But Judah shall dwell forever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation."

JUDAH AND JERUSALEM TO ENDURE

Zech. 2:12-"And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again."

THE BLESSINGS OF ISRAEL

Gen. 35:10, 11-"And God said unto him . . . thy name shall not be called any more Jacob, but Israel shall be thy name . . . be fruitful and multiply; a nation and a company of nations shall be of thee, and kings shall come of thy loins."

Num. 24:17-"There shall come a Star out of Jacob, and a Sceptre shall rise out of Israel."

Isa. 49:1, 3, 6, 19, 22, 23-"The Lord hath called me and said unto me, Thou art my servant, O Israel, in whom I will be glorified.

"It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the ends of the earth."

"Thy waste and thy desolate places and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

"Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people: and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders.

"And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the Lord; for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me."

*Rom. 9:3,-"My kinsmen according to the flesh; who are Israelites; to whom are the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises."

Rom. 11:26, 27-"All Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob; for this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins."

THE GENERAL COVENANTS

WITH ABRAHAM, MOSES, AND ISRAEL

*Gen. 15:21-"The Lord made a covenant with Abram saying, Unto thy seed have I given this land, from the river of Egypt unto the great river Euphrates" (18).

*Gen. 17:2, 15-"I will make my covenant between me and thee, and I will multiply thee exceedingly. . . . This shall be my covenant, which ye shall keep between me and thee and thy seed after thee; every man child among you shall be circumcised" (2, 10).

Exod. 2:24-"God heard their groaning, and God remembered his covenant with Abram, with Isaac, and with Jacob."

*Exod. 6:4, 8-"Yea, and I have also established my covenant with them, which I made with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, wherein they were strangers. . . . And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage; I the Lord will do it."

Exod. 19:6-"And ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation. These are the words which thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel."

Exod. 24:7-"And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient."

Exod. 34:27, 28-"And the Lord said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. . . . And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."

Deut. 4:13, 14-"And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone. And the Lord commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and judgments, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it."

Deut. 5:2, 3-"The Lord our God made a covenant with us in Horeb. The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day."

Deut. 9:11-"And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that the Lord gave me the two tables of stone, even the tables of the covenant."

Deut. 29:1-"These are the words of the covenant, which the Lord commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, besides the covenant which he made with them in Horeb."

BLESSINGS IN OBEDIENCE TO COVENANTS

Exod. 19:5, 6-"Now therefore, if ye will obey my voice indeed, and keep my covenant, then ye shall be a peculiar treasure unto me above all people; for all the earth is mine; and ye shall be unto me a kingdom of priests, and a holy nation."

Ps. 50:5-"Gather my saints together unto me; those that have made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

Acts 3:25-"Ye are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed."

Heb. 13:20-"Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant."

1 Nephi 4:29-"Which covenant the Lord made to our father Abraham, saying, In thy seed shall all the kindreds of the earth be blessed."

D. and C. 83:6-"Therefore, all that my Father hath shall be given unto him; and this is according to the oath and covenant which belongeth to the priesthood. Therefore, all those who receive the priesthood receive this oath and covenant of my Father, which he can not break, neither can it be moved; but whoso breaketh this covenant, after he hath received it, and altogether turneth therefrom, shall not have forgiveness of sins in this world nor in the world to come."

†Gen. 5:35; †7:58; 17:8; 31:44; *Exod. 6:4; 24:8; Lev. 26:15, 25; Acts 7:8; *Rom. 9:4.

D. and C. 81:4; 49:2; 77:2; 85:40, 41; 98:5; 76:5; 95:1; 101:1.

Mosiah 3:6; 4:1.

MOSAIC COVENANT CONDITIONAL

Lev. 26:15, 16, 19, 25, 33, 38, 40, 41, 42-"And if ye shall despise my statutes, . . . so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant; I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you terror, consumption, and the burning ague. . . .and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass; . . . I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy . . . and I will scatter you among the heathen, . . . and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste. . . . And ye shall perish among the heathen, and the land of your enemies shall eat you up. . . . If they shall confess their iniquity. . . . and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity; then will I remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land."

Deut. 4:23, 25, 27-"Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God. . . . and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, . . . And the Lord shall scatter you among the nations, and ye shall be left few in number among the heathen, whither the Lord shall lead you."

Deut. 8:18-"But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God; for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day."

Deut. 26:17, 18-"Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice; and the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments."

Deut. 28:9, 10-"The Lord shall establish thee a holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways. And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee."

Deut. 31:16, 17-"The Lord said unto Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers; and this people will rise up, . . . and will forsake me, and break my covenant which I have made with them. . . . and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them."

I Chron. 28.8-"Keep and seek for all the commandments of the Lord your God; that you may possess this good land."

Jer. 7:5-7-"For if ye thoroughly amend your ways and your doings; if ye thoroughly execute judgment between a man and his neighbour; if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt; then will I cause you to dwell in this place, in the land that I gave to your fathers, for ever and ever."

ISRAEL'S MEMORIAL OF DELIVERANCE

Deut. 6:20-22-"And when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What mean the testimonies, and the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord our God hath commanded you? Then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh's bond men in Egypt; and the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand; and the Lord showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his household, before our eyes."

Josh. 4:2, 5, 6, 7-"Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man. . . . And Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of the Lord your God into the midst of Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel; that this may be a sign among you, that when your children ask their fathers in time to come, saying, What mean ye by these stones? Then ye shall answer them, That the waters of Jordan were cut off before the ark of the covenant of the Lord; when it passed over Jordan, the waters of Jordan were cut off; and these stones shall be for a memorial unto the children of Israel for ever."

WARNINGS AGAINST CANAANITE ABOMINATIONS

Lev. 18:24, 25, 27-"Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things; for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out before you; and the land is defiled; therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants. . . . For all these abominations have the men of the land done, which were before you, and the land is defiled."

Deut. 12:30, 31-"Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou inquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise. Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God; for every abomination to the Lord which he hateth have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods."

Deut. 18:14-"These nations . . . hearkened unto . . . diviners; but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do."

Deut.. 29:17-"Ye have seen their abominations, and their idols."

THE FIVE SPECIAL COVENANTS WITH

ISRAEL

1. THE COVENANT WITH ABRAHAM

THE GREATNESS OF THE PEOPLE

*Gen. 12:1-2-"Now, the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house, unto a land that I will show thee; And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing: And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee shall the families of the earth be blessed."

THE GIFT OF THE LAND

†Gen. 13:12-15-"And the Lord said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art, northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward; And remember the covenant which I make with thee; for it shall be an everlasting covenant; and thou shalt remember the days of Enoch thy father; For all the land which thou seest, will I give thee, and to thy seed for ever; and I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth; so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, thy seed shall also be numbered. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it, and in the breadth of it, for I will give it unto thee."

THE PROMISE OF AN HEIR

†Gen. 15:6-"He that shall come forth out of thine own bowels shall be thine heir."

A NEW NAME, THE FATHER OF NATIONS

†Gen. 17: 8, 9-"I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. And this covenant I make that thy children may be known among all nations. Neither shall thy name any more be Abram, but thy name shall be called Abraham."

2. THE COVENANT WITH MOSES

THE WILL OF GOD

Exod. 20:1-26-The Ten Commandments, the foundation of the law, are given in verses 1-17, with additional requirements in the remaining verses. The material is too long to quote here and may be read directly in the Bible.

LAWS AND JUDGMENTS

Exod. 21; 22; 23.

ORDINANCES AND WORSHIP

Exod. 24:1-18--Details of sacrifices, the tabernacle, and rules of worship.

3, THE COVENANT OF PALESTINE

A REMINDER TO A NATION DISPERSED

Deut. 30:1-"And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee ... thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee."

FUTURE REPENTANCE

Verse 2-"And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice."

RENEWAL OF GOD'S MERCY

Verse 3-"Then the Lord thy God will . . . have compassion upon thee, and will return and gather thee."

RESTORATION OF THE LAND

Verse 5-"The Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it."

NATIONAL CONVERSION

Verse 6-"The Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart . . . to love the Lord thy God."

JUDGMENT OF THE OPPRESSORS

Verse 7-"The Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies."

NATIONAL PROSPERITY

Verse 9-"The Lord thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good."

4. THE COVENANT WITH DAVID

2 Samuel 7:10, 16-"I will appoint a place for my people Israel . . .that they may dwell in a place of their own, and move no more. . . .And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever."

5. THE NEW COVENANT

Jer. 31:31-34-"I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah; Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers. . . . But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbor, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for they shall all know me, from the least of them unto the greatest of them, saith the Lord; for I will forgive their iniquity, and I will remember their sin no more."

Heb. 8:6, 7-"He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."

ISRAEL CHOSEN AND GIVEN THE PRIESTHOOD

AND ORACLES

*Gen. 12:2-"And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee. . . . and in thee shall the families of the earth be blessed" (2, 3).

*Gen. 17:8, 9-"But as for thee, behold, I will make my covenant with thee, and thou shalt be a father of many nations. And this covenant I make, that thy children may be known among all nations. Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be called Abraham; for, a father of many nations have I made thee" (5-7).

Deut. 7:6-"For thou art a holy people unto the Lord thy God; the Lord thy God hath chosen thee to be a special people unto himself, above all people that are upon the face of the earth."

Acts 7:38-"This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel which spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers; who received the lively oracles to give unto us."

*Rom. 3:2-"He who is a Jew from the heart, I say hath much every way; chiefly because that unto them were committed the oracles of God."

Gen. 26:4; Isa. 44:1-8; *John 4:24; Rom. 1:16; Gal. 3:8, 9, 16, 18, 29.

THE BREAKING OF THE COVENANTS

MOSAIC COVENANT BROKEN

Josh. 7:11-"Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them."

Judg. 2:20, 21-"And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice; I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died."

I Kings 19:10-"The children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword."

2 Kings 17:15, 19, 20-"And they rejected his statutes, and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified against them;. . . . . Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God. . . . . . . And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers, until he had cast them out of his sight."

Hos. 8:1-"He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law."

Zech. 11:10-"And I took my staff, even Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the people."

I Kings 19:14; 2 Kings 18:12; Isa. 24:5; 33:8; Jer, 22:9; 31:32; Ezek. 16:59; 44:7; Heb. 8:13.

D. and C. 20:1-"Behold, I say unto you, that all old covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing, and this is a new and an everlasting covenant."

THE OLD COVENANT ABOLISHED AND FAULTY

2 Cor. 3:7, 8, 11, 13-"But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious. . . . how shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious? For if that which is done away was glorious, much more that which remaineth is glorious. . . . And not as Moses, which put a veil over his face, that the children of Israel could not steadfastly look to the end of that which is abolished."

*Gal. 3:24, 25-"The law was our schoolmaster until Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."

Gal. 4:22, 24, 30, 31-"For it is written, that Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a freewoman. . . . Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar. . . . Nevertheless what saith the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son: for the son of the bondwoman shall not be heir with the son of the freewoman. So then, brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman, but of the free."

Eph. 2:13-15-"But now in Christ Jesus ye who sometimes were far off are made nigh by the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who hath made both one, and hath broken down the middle wall of partition between us; having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace."

Heb. 8:6-9, 13-"He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day when I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued not in my covenant, and I regarded them not, saith the Lord. . . . In that he saith, A new covenant, he hath made the first old. Now that which decayeth and waxeth old is ready to vanish away."

Jer. 31:31, 32; Zech. 11:10; Col. 2:14; Heb. 6:12; 10:1, 9, 2 Cor. 3:6-11;

*Gal. 3; 4:21-31; 5:1-6; Eph. 2:15; *Heb. 8:1-11.

MOSAIC SABBATH COVENANT FOR ISRAEL ONLY

Exod. 34:27, 28-"After the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel. . . . And he wrote upon the tables the words of the covenant, the ten commandments."

Deut. 5:3, 15-"The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day. . . . And remember that thou wast a servant in the land of Egypt, and that the Lord thy God brought thee out thence through a mighty hand and by a stretched-out arm; therefore the Lord thy God commanded thee to keep the sabbath day."

LAW OF MOSES LIMITED

INSUFFICIENT TO SAVE MAN

*John 1:17, 18-"The law was given through Moses, but life and truth came through Jesus Christ. For the law, was after a carnal commandment, to the administration of death; but the gospel was after the power of an endless life."

Acts 13:39-"And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses."

*Acts 15:5, 24-"There rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses. . . . Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain men which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law; to whom we gave no such commandment."

*Rom. 3:20, 21-"For by the law is the knowledge of sin; therefore by the deeds of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight. But now the righteousness of God without the law is manifested, being witnessed by the law and the prophets."

*Rom. 6:13-15-"Yield yourselves unto God, . . . For in so doing sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace. What then? shall we sin, because we are not under the law, but under grace? God forbid."

*Rom. 7:6-"But now we are delivered from the law wherein we were held, being dead to the law, that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter."

2 Cor. 3:7, 8-"But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not steadfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away; how shall not the ministration of the Spirit be rather glorious? For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory" (7-9).

Gal. 2:16-"Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."

*Gal. 3:11-13, 17, 18, 24, 25-"But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident; for, The just shall live by faith. And the law is not of faith; but, The man that doeth them shall live in them. Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us; for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree. . . . And this I say, that the covenant that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect. For if the inheritance is of the law, then it is no more of promise; but God gave it to Abraham by promise. . . . Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster until Christ, that we might be justified by faith. But after that faith is come, we are no longer under a schoolmaster."

*Heb. 7:16, 18, 19-"Who is made, not after the law of a carnal commandment, but after the power of an endless life. . . . For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before, for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof. For the law was administered without an oath and made nothing perfect, but was only the bringing forth in of a better hope; by the which we draw nigh unto God."

Heb. 8:6, 7-"He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."

*Heb. 10:1-"For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered continually, make the comers thereunto perfect."

Rom. 8:1-4; Gal. 4:21-24, 28, 31.

Mosiah 8:6, 7-"It was expedient that there should be a law given to the children of Israel, yea, even a very strict law; for they were a stiff-necked people; quick to do iniquity, and slow to remember the Lord their God. Therefore there was a law given them, a law of performances, and of ordinances, a law that they were to observe strictly; from day to day, to keep them in remembrance of God, and their duty towards him."

Mosiah 8:90-"If ye teach the law of Moses, also teach that it is a shadow of those things which are to come."

2 Nephi 11:45-51; 3 Nephi 7:3-12; D. and C. 74:2, 3.

D. and C. 20:1-"All old covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing, and this is a new and an everlasting covenant; even that which was from the beginning. . . . for you can not enter in at the straight gate by the law of Moses."

THE LAW EXPLAINED

(Bible term "the law" usually refers to Mosaic Law. "Law of liberty" is Christ's law.)

*Exod. 34:1, 2-"And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two other tables of stone, like unto the first, and I will write upon them also, the words of the law, . . . but it shall not be according to the first, for I will take away the priesthood out of their midst; therefore my holy order, and the ordinances thereof, shall not go before them; for my presence shall not go up in their midst, lest I destroy them. But I will give unto them the law as at the first, but it shall be after the law of a carnal commandment."

Ps. 19:7, 8-"The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul; the testimony of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple. The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing the heart; the commandment of the Lord is pure, enlightening the eyes."

*Matt. 7:21-"Therefore, all things whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, do ye even so to them; for this is the law and the prophets" (12).

*Rom. 7:12-"Nevertheless, I found the law to be holy, and the commandment to be holy, and just, and good."

Rom. 13:10-"Love worketh no ill to his neighbor; therefore love is the fulfilling of the law."

James 1:25-"But whoso looketh into the perfect law of liberty, and continueth therein, he being not a forgetful hearer, but a doer of the work, this man shall be blessed in his deed."

I John 3:4-"Whosoever committeth sin transgresseth also the law; for sin is the transgression of the law."

Exod. 24:12; *Deut. 10:1, 2; Isa. 2:3; Matt. 22:35-39; Rom. 7:8; *13:8-10; Gal. 2:16; *3:20; 5:14; 6:2; James 1:25.

2 Nephi 11:45-51 (Law of Moses fulfilled; words of Christ law).

Jacob 3:6 (Law of Moses pointed to Christ).

Jarom 1:24, 25 (By law of Moses they looked forward to Messiah).

Alma 14:74-76 (Kept law of Moses till fulfilled-a type of Christ's coming).

Alma 16:4 (Taught to keep law until fulfilled).

Alma 16:8-10, 12 (No law against a man's belief).

D. and C. 28:9 (All laws of God are spiritual).

D. and C. 42:16 (The Scriptures a law to govern the church).

D. and C. 85:9 (All kingdoms have a law given).

D. and C. 122:16 (If unable to agree on law, be patient).

D. and C. 125:14 (Branches and districts conducted by rules in the law; law to govern the church).

D. and C. 126:10 (Regard to law of tithing; application of law as stated by bishopric; three quorums provided for in the law).

LAW OF MOSES TEMPORARY-WAS ABOLISHED

*Matt. 5:19-"Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets; I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill" (17).

†Luke 16:20-"And why teach ye the law, and deny that which is written; and condemn him whom the Father hath sent to fulfill the law, that ye might all be redeemed?"

*John 1:17, 18-"For the law was given through Moses, but life and truth came through Jesus Christ. For the law was after a carnal commandment, to the administration of death; but the gospel was after the power of an endless life, through Jesus Christ, the Only Begotten Son; who is in the bosom of the Father."

Gal. 2:16-"A man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not, by the works of the law; for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified."

Eph. 2:15-"Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain one new man, so making peace."

Col. 2:14-"Blotting out the handwriting of ordinances that was against us, which was contrary to us, and took it out of the way, nailing it to his cross."

Heb. 8:6-9-"But now hath he obtained a more excellent ministry, by how much also he is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second. For finding fault with them, he saith, Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah; Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers'

Acts 15:1-29; Gal. 2:3-9; Heb. 7:12, 18-20; *9:8-24.

THE COVENANT OF CHRIST

AN EVERLASTING COVENANT

†Gen. 9:22, 23-"And this is mine everlasting covenant, that when thy posterity shall embrace the truth, and look upward, then shall Zion look downward, and all the heavens shall shake with gladness, and the earth shall tremble with joy; and the general assembly of the church of the first-born shall come down out of heaven, and possess the earth, and shall have place until the end come. And this is mine everlasting covenant, which I made with thy father Enoch."

Jer. 31:33-"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people."

D. and C. 76:5-"Christ the mediator of the new covenant."

†Gen. 50:25-28; Ezek. 37:26; Zech. 9:11; Mal. 3:1; Rom. 11:27; Eph. 2:12; *Heb. 9:1, 15-17; 10:16; 12:24; 13:20.

A NEW COVENANT

Isa. 42:6-"I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles."

Isa. 55:3-5-"I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David. Behold, I have given him for a witness to the people, a leader and commander to the people. Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God."

Isa. 59:20, 21-"And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord. As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My Spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed's seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and forever."

Jer. 31:31, 32, 33-"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah: not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to lead them out of the land of Egypt; . . . but this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts."

Ezek. 16:59, 60-"I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant. Nevertheless I will remember my covenant with thee in the days of thy youth, and I will establish unto thee an everlasting covenant."

Dan. 9:26, 27-"After threescore and two weeks shall Messiah be cut off, but not for himself: . . . And he shall confirm the covenant with many for one week: and in the midst of the week he shall cause the sacrifice and the oblation to cease."

Zech. 9:10, 11-"And he shall speak peace unto the heathen: and his dominion shall be from sea even to sea, and from the river even to the ends of the earth. As for thee also, by the blood of thy covenant I have sent forth thy prisoners out of the pit wherein is no water."

Gal. 3:17-"And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Heb. 8:6, 7-"He is the mediator of a better covenant, which was established upon better promises. For if that first covenant had been faultless, then should no place have been sought for the second."

*Heb. 10:1, 9-"For the law having a shadow of good things to come, and not the very image of the things, can never with those sacrifices, which they offered continually year by year make the comers thereunto perfect. . . . Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish this second."

Heb. 10:16, 19, 20, 22-"This is the covenant that I will make with them after those days, saith the Lord, I will put my laws into their hearts, and in their minds will I write them; . . . Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jesus, by a new and living way, which he hath consecrated for us, through the veil, that is to say, his flesh; . . . having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with pure water."

Heb. 12:24-"And to Jesus the mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of sprinkling, that speaketh better things than that of Abel."

Heb 13:20-"Brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant.

†Gen. 5:45; Deut. 18:18, 19; Isa. 49:6; Ezek. 16:62; 37:26; Mal. 3:1; Heb. 9:13-15; 10:29.

SABBATH DAY FOR CHRISTIANS

ISRAEL'S SOJOURN IN EGYPY FORETOLD

*Gen. 15:17-"Thy seed shall be a stranger in a land which shall not be theirs, and shall serve strangers; and they shall be afflicted, and serve them four hundred years" (13).

Gen. 46:2-4-"And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I. And he said. I am God, the God of thy father; fear not to go down into Egypt; for I will there make of thee a great nation. I will go down with thee unto Egypt; and I will also surely bring thee up again; and Joseph shall put his hand upon thine eyes."

Acts 7:6, 7.

CAPTIVITY OF THE TEN TRIBES

2 Kings 17:6, 18-20-"In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes. There was none left but the tribe of Judah only. Also Judah kept not the commandments of the Lord their God, but walked in the statutes of Israel which they made. And the Lord rejected all the seed of Israel, and afflicted them, and delivered them into the hand of spoilers."

2 Kings 18:11, 12-"And the king of Assyria did carry away Israel unto Assyria, and put them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes; because they obeyed not the voice of the Lord their God, but transgressed his covenant, and all that Moses the servant of the Lord commanded."

CAPTIVITY OF JUDAH IN BABYLON

2 Kings 24:11, 13, 14-"Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came against the city . . . . He carried thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house . . . . And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land."

2 Kings 25:1-3, 9, 12-"And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchanezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his hosts, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about. And the city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah. And on the ninth day of the fourth month the famine prevailed in the city, and there was no bread for the people of the land. . . . And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king's house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man's house burnt he with fire. . . . But the captain of the guard left of the poor of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen."

Jer. 25:11-"And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years."

Jer. 29:10-"After seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you. . . . Causing you to return to this place." (Return fulfilled under Cyrus.)

Jer. 34:2, 3(Prophecy of Babylonian captivity.)

Ezek. 12:13-"And I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there."

2 Chron. 36:22, 23; Ezra 1:1, 2; Isa. 44:28; 45:1-3.

SCATTERING OF ISRAEL FORETOLD

Deut. 28:25-"The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies; thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them; and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth."

Deut. 28:64, 65-"And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest; but the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart; and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind."

Jer. 24:9, 10-"And I will deliver them to be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth for their hurt, to be a reproach and a proverb, a taunt and a curse, in all places whither I shall drive them. And I will send the sword, the famine and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers."

Amos 9:9-"For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth."

Micah 3:12-"Therefore shall Zion for your sake be ploughed as a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high place of the forest."

Luke 21:23-"And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (24).

Jer. 13:19, 24; Ezek. 22:15.

1 Nephi 5:251, 252-"And as for those who are at Jerusalem, saith the prophet, they shall be scourged by all people, because they crucify the God of Israel."

I Nephi 7:6, 7-"It appears that the house of Israel, sooner or later, will be scattered upon all the face of the earth, . . . there are many who are already lost from the knowledge of those who are at Jerusalem."

2 Nephi 7:11, 12-"They who shall not be destroyed, shall be scattered among all nations. But behold, thus saith the Lord God: When the day cometh that they believe in me, that I am Christ, then have I covenanted with their fathers that they shall be restored."

2 Nephi 11:25-27.

DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM AND DISPERSION OF THE JEWS

*Matt. 23:36-38-"Then Jesus began to weep over Jerusalem, saying, O Jerusalem! Jerusalem! You who will kill the prophets, and will stone them who are sent unto you; how often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and ye would not" (37).

*Matt. 24:4, 12, 13, 18-"Tell us, when shall these things be which thou hast said concerning the destruction of the temple, and the Jews. . . When you, therefore, shall see the abominations of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, then you shall stand in the holy place. . . . For then, in those days, shall be great tribulations on the Jews, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem: such as was not before sent upon Israel, of God, since the beginning of their kingdom until this time; no, nor ever shall be sent again upon Israel" (3, 15, 21).

Luke 21:19, 23-"And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. . . . And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled" (20, 24).

Deut. 28:52-57; Ezek. 12:15; Dan. 9:26; Micah 3:12; *Mark 13:20; Luke 19:40-43; *23:27-29,

I Nephi 5:245, 251-254; 7:6-15; 2 Nephi 7:9-11; 11:24, 25.

RESTORATION OF ISRAEL AND JUDAH IN THE LATTER DAYS THE SECOND EFFORT

Isa. 11:11-"And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people."

2 Nephi 11:28-"And the Lord will set his hand again the second time to restore his people from their lost and fallen state."

2 Nephi 12:42-"I shall proceed to do a marvelous work among them, that I may remember my covenants which I have made unto the children of men, that I may set my hand again the second time to recover my people . . . Israel."

2 Nephi 5:33-51.

FROM THE NORTH

Jer. 3:12, 18-"Go and proclaim these words toward the north, and say, Return, thou backsliding Israel, saith the Lord; and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you; . . . They shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers."

Jer. 23:8-"But, The Lord liveth, which brought up and which led the seed of the house of Israel out of the north country, and from all countries whither I had driven them; and they shall dwell in their own land."

Jer. 31:8-"Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth."

Jer. 16:14, 15.

3 Nephi 7:24-27.

D. and C. 108:6.

FROM THE EAST AND WEST

*Zech. 8:7-"Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Behold, I will gather my people from the east country, and from the west country."

1 Nephi 6:42-"Behold, these shall come from afar; and lo, these from the north and from the west."

FROM ALL NATIONS

Isa. 11:12-"And he shall set up an ensign for the nations, and shall assemble the outcasts of Israel, and gather together the dispersed of Judah from the four corners of the earth."

Isa. 49:22, 23-"Thus saith the Lord God, Behold, I will lift up mine hand to the Gentiles, and set up my standard to the people; and they shall bring thy sons in their arms, and thy daughters shall be carried upon their shoulders. And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers."

Jer. 30:3-"For, lo, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will bring again the captivity of my people Israel and Judah, saith the Lord; and I will cause them to return to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it."

Jer. 31:10-"He that scattered Israel will gather him, and keep him, as a shepherd doth his flock."

Jer. 33:7, 8-"And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them as at the first. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me."

Ezek. 20:41, 42-"I will accept you with your sweet savor, when I bring you out from the people, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you before the heathen. And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall bring you into the land of Israel."

*Rom. 11:25, 26-"Blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in. And then all Israel shall be saved; as it is written, There shall come out of Sion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob."

Isa. 60:9-15; 65:18, 19; 66:20; Jer. 16:14-16; 30:12; 31:31-34; 32:37-41; Ezek. 20:34; 34:12, 13.

2 Nephi 12:73-"And it shall come to pass that my people which are of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one."

3 Nephi 2:107, 109-"As surely as the Lord liveth will he gather in from the four quarters of the earth all the remnant of the seed of Jacob . . . . And then shall they know their Redeemer, who is Jesus Christ the Son of God."

I Nephi 3:18, 19; 4:31-33; 5:245-256; 6:48-56; 7:18-25; 2 Nephi 2:10-24; 7:12-17, 33-44; 3 Nephi 7:28-45; 9:48-50; 10:2; Ether 6:4-12.

D. and C. 39:3-"Thou shalt preach the fullness of my gospel which I have sent forth in these last days; the covenant which I have sent forth to recover my people, which are of the house of Israel."

D. and C. 45:2; 49:5.

REUNITED

Jer. 3:17, 18-"At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord. . . . In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel."

Ezek. 37:22-"I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all."

I Nephi 4:33-"And after they were restored, they should no more be confounded, neither should they be scattered again."

JERUSALEM TO BE REBUILT

Isa. 60:10, 13-"And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee; for in my, wrath I smote thee, but in my favor have I had mercy on thee. . . .The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious."

Isa. 61:4-"And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations."

Jer. 30:18-"Thus saith the Lord: Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob's tents, and have mercy on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof."

Joel 3:16, 17-"The Lord also shall roar out of Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; . . . . but the Lord will be the hope of his people, and the strength of the children of Israel. So shall ye know that I am the Lord your God dwelling in Zion, my holy mountain; then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more."

Zech. 1:17-"My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem."

Isa. 62:1, 4, 7; Jer. 3:17; 33:12-14.

CHRIST SHALL BE THEIR KING

(See Future Coming)

Isa. 9:7-"Of the increase of his government and peace there is no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever."

Dan. 7:13, 14-"I saw . . . . one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven. . . . . And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him."

*Mark 15:3, 4-"And Pilate asked him, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus answering, said unto him, I am, even as thou sayest" (2).

Ezek. 34:24; Joel 3:17; Zech. 14:9; *Matt. 27:11, 12; John 18:37.

THE LAND TO BE FRUITFUL AGAIN

Ps. 85:12-"Yea, the Lord shall give that which is good; and our land shall yield her increase."

*Isa. 29:29-"But behold, saith the Lord of hosts, I will show into the children of men, that it is not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field; and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest" (17).

Isa. 32:15-"Until the Spirit be poured upon us from on high, and the wilderness be a fruitful field, and the fruitful field be counted for a forest."

Isa. 61:5-"And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and the sons of the alien shall be your ploughmen and your vinedressers."

Ezek. 36:35-"And they shall say, This land that was desolate is become like the garden of Eden; and the waste and desolate and ruined cities are become fenced, and are inhabited."

Amos 9:14-"And I bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them."

Ezek. 34:26, 27; 36:30, 34.