Moses 7 features Enic, a figure that receives scant attention in Genesis, but has an overwhelming impact on the Pearl of Grey Price.

Importantly, Enick's experiences with God the Father also shape how we view the Father, his relationship to us, and recognize his character and disposition.

In today's episode of Abide, we discuss Moses 7 and how it contributes

to Latter-day Saint ideas about God and his relationship to us. My name is Joseph Stewart. I'm

the public communication specialist of the Neil A. Maxwell Institute for religious scholarship

at Brigham Young University. Christian Heal is a research fellow at the Institute, and each week,

we discuss the week's block of reading from

the Church of Jesus Christ's Latter-day Saints, Come Follow Me curriculum. We aren't here to present a lesson,

but rather to hit on a few key themes from the scripture block so as to help fulfill the Maxwell

Institute's mission to inspire and fortify Latter-day Saints in their testimonies of the restored

gospel of Jesus Christ and engage the world of religious ideas. Today we're joined by special guest Terrell Givens, a senior research fellow at the Institute,

who with Fiona Givens has written the God Who Weeps,

how Mormonism makes sense of life, and more recently, the Doors of Faith from the Maximus

Living Faith series and Deseret book.

Christian, before we ask Terrell a few questions about Moses 7, what else is going on in the chapter

beyond what I said in the introduction?

Well, the story of Enoch starts earlier in Moses chapter 6, and when we read Enoch's call

in Moses 6, 27 to 30, we can't help thinking of Doctrine of Covenants 1. God says to Enoch, I'm angry with

this people and my fierce anger is kindled against them. Why? They have gone astray and they deny me

and have sought their own counsel in the dark. In the first section of the Doctrine of Covenants,

God's anger is similarly described, and the anger of the Lord is kindled and and his sword is bathed in heaven, and it shall fall upon the inhabitants of the earth. Why? Because they have strayed from mine ordinances. They seek not the Lord to establish his righteousness, for every man walketh in his own way. The consequences of such behaviour were clear to God. Enoch's call, like Joseph's, was God's response

to a world that was about to fall into calamity. God's response was not only to call a prophet

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