Abrahamic Covenant
At home, or abroad, this is a major responsibility of the Abrahamic covenant.
What is missionary work?
Isaac and Rebekah sent Jacob away for these two reasons.
See Genesis 27:45,46
1. Because his brother Esau wanted to kill him
2. So he could marry in the covenant.
We personally entered the covenant path at this moment.
What is when we were baptized?
When Abraham sent his servant to Haran to find a covenant keeping wife for his son Isaac, he was told by the Lord to use this test to find the right woman.
What is offering to water the camels?
Jacob's dream was so sacred to him that he consecrated the stone on which he had slept and gave the place this name which literally means "the House of the Lord."
See Genesis 28:16-19
What is Bethel?
The Abrahamic Covenant says that through him all the families of the earth will be blessed, even with the blessing of the __________, which are the blessings of ___________, even of _______ _____________.
See Abraham 2:11
What are the Gospel, salvation and life eternal.
Jacob stopped at a certain place to sleep and used these for his pillow.
See Genesis 28:11
What are stones?
When we are baptized we make a covenant with the Lord wherein we make these three promises. We renew this covenant each week when we partake of the sacrament.
(Moroni 4:3)
1) I will take upon myself the name of Jesus Christ
2) I will always remember Him
3) I will keep His commandments
Rebekah believed through revelation that Jacob was to received the birthright. She helped Jacob deceive Isaac by giving him these two items to cover him. One helped fool Isaac with smell and the other with touch.
See Genesis 27:15,16,22,27
What are skins of the kids of the goats and Esau's clothing?
We may not all be literal descendants of Israel/Jacob but Paul explained that we are Abraham's seed and heirs if we have done this.
See Galatians 3:27,29
What is be baptized into Christ.
When we are sealed in the temple today we are promised all the blessings of these three men.
Who are Abraham, Isaac and Jacob?
Jacob has a dream in which he sees "a ladder set up on the _____, and the top of it reached to _______: and behold the ______ of God ascending and descending on it.
See Genesis 28:12
What is earth, heaven, angels?
When we are baptized we make covenants that set us on the covenant path. The next time we make covenants is when we do this.
What is go to the temple?
When Rebekah felt "struggling" in her womb, she enquired of the Lord and was told these four things.
Genesis 25:23
1. Two nations are in thy womb
2. Two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels
3. The one people shall be stronger than the other
4. The elder shall serve the younger
Five references to Jacob's dream that are found in the hymn, "Nearer, My God to Thee."
1) My rest a stone
2) Yet in my dreams
3) Step unto heav'n
4) Angels to beckon me
5) Bethel I'll raise;
The blessings of the Abrahamic covenant, conferred in holy temples, allow us upon being resurrected, to inherit these things.
See D&C 132:19
What are thrones, kingdoms, powers, principalities, and dominions, to our 'exaltation and glory in all things.'
In a vision, Jacob sees the Saviour, who tells him He is the God of these two relatives of Jacob.
See Genesis 28:13
Who are Isaac and Abraham?
Who are his father and grandfather?
In the primary song, "I Love to see the Temple," we sing of this covenant that is made in the temple.
What is obedience?
Two things Esau did that showed he did not really care about covenants, the Priesthood, or his birthright.
See Genesis 26: 34,35 and 27:31-34
What is sell the birthright for a mess of pottage and marry Canaanite women.
After his dream, Jacob vowed to do this, something we must still do today in order to enter the House of the Lord.
See Genesis 28:20-22
What is pay tithing?
Three things, other than actually going on a mission, I can do to fulfill my responsibility as the seed of Abraham.
What is anything that "offers the gospel of Jesus Christ to God's children on both sides of the veil."
-many examples will be correct
Three things Jehovah promised Jacob that were the same three things Abraham was promised. In other words, the Abrahamic Covenant.
See Genesis 28:14
1. The land whereon he liest (property)
2. His seed shall be as the dust of the earth (posterity)
3. Through his seed all the families of the earth will be blessed (priesthood)
In Jacob's dream he received the Abrahamic covenant as well as this additional blessing that can apply to everyone of us.
See Genesis 28:15 and John 14:18
What is I will never leave you?
This phrase in the blessing Esau received from his father, likely caused him to despise his brother Jacob even more than he already did.
See Genesis 27:38,39
What is "thou shalt serve thy brother."
The prophet Joseph Smith taught that the rungs on the ladder in Jacob's dream represented these three degrees of glory.
What are the telestial, terrestrial, and celestial glories?