Welcome to Part 2 with Crystal and George Pierce, the Book of Ether, chapters 1 through 5.

They have gathered all of these things together. They're on their way to the promised land.

Of course, on the way, they enter into what we call a promised land covenant.

This fits in with other versions of promised land covenants that we've already seen.

We can think of a covenant as a solemn two-way promise.

As we see it in scripture, we have one party promising they're going to do something,

and then God promising that he's going to do something.

Think about Abraham.

So Abraham and his family, their part of it is to have Jehovah's their God to follow Jehovah's

commandments and walk before him.

God's part of that is to give them property, so the promised land, to give them posterity

to make sure they're going to have children, prosperity to bless them and bless those who

bless them. We see in the book of Abraham, part of Abraham's covenant, is that he's going to have

the priesthood reside in his lineage as well. And of course, the Mosaic law, it's a covenant

between Israel and God. As Moses restates it in Deuteronomy, it's about when you get into this land, then you should

follow God's commandments so that you can prosper and that you don't forget God. And if you do,

then the danger is that you will be removed from the land. We see the same thing happening in

chapter two as the Jaredites are moving. It says in verse 7, and the Lord would not suffer that they

should stop beyond the sea in the wilderness, but he would that they should come forth even into the

land of promise, which was a choice above all other lands, which the Lord God had preserved for

a righteous people. And he had sworn his wrath to the brother Jared that whoso should possess

this land of promise from that time henceforth and forever

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