Welcome to part two of this week's podcast.

Okay, so we're going to switch books now.

We have the biblical account of Abraham.

And what we're going to see here is the articulation of the covenant is spread out over multiple chapters.

You're going to see it in chapter 12, you can see it in chapter 13, you do chapters 15 and 17.

And of course we know that these are texts that were compiled later.

And so there's one dimension of why things are spread out.

But another thing I think can help us make sense is our own experience with the new never lasting covenant.

Is we make this multiple times?

It's extended over time.

We have a covenant at baptism.

Then we have the covenant at the endowment.

In fact, good this great quote from President Herbily Ray Tot that the endowment expands the gospel path we started at baptism.

He says the receiving of the endowment requires the assuming of obligations by covenants, which are in reality but an embodiment or an unfolding of the covenants each person should have assumed it baptism.

It's a restatement of a covenant, but it just slowed down.

And it's more precise.

It's more articulated.

It's an unfolding of all of the things we promised in baptism.

We're promising again with the covenants we make in the endowment, but they're being expanded.

The promise of exaltation is even more explicit of course in temple marriage.

But all of them are kind of implied if we're faithful we receive all the father half.

One way to think about the statements and the experiences in chapter 12, chapter 13, chapter 15, chapter 17.

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