Family and Its Eternal Importance
The most important organization on the earth that is meant to be eternal
What is Family?
This is a sacred agreement between God and a person or group of people.
What is a covenant?
These are basic steps to start our family tree.
What are starting with known information, asking family members, and finding records?
Sometimes called the Everlasting Covenant or Covenant Path.
What is the Abrahamic Covenant?
The two divisions of the spirit world.
What are paradise and prison?
Provided a place where families could live.
What did the creation do for families?
The temple is a house of this.
What is learning?
These are 3 of the many common types of records you can use as sources.
What are Birth, Christening, Marriage, Death, and Census Records?
Gathering Israel on both sides of the veil refers to this.
What are Missionary, Temple, and Family History Work?
This is where the spirit world is.
Where is Earth?
Salvation is an individual matter, but this concept is a family matter.
What is exaltation?
These buildings will be even more critical in the Millennium to help our ancestors in the spirit world.
What is the Temple?
Several non-FamilySearch sites we can use to help find records.
What are Ancestry, Find My Past, and MyHeritage?
These are 3 of the promised blessings of the Abrahamic Covenant.
What are:
This person initiated the preaching of the gospel to the spirits in prison.
Who is Jesus?
These are ordinances we perform on our covenant path.
What are Baptism, Washing and Anointing, Endowment, and Sealing?
These are the laws we covenant to obey in the Endowment.
What are the Law of Obedience, Law of Sacrifice, Law of the Gospel, Law of Chastity, and Law of Consecration?
These are two of the four ways to find cousins in genealogical research.
What are Ordinance Ready, Decendants With Tasks, Descendancy View, and Family Search Partner Sites.
These are 3 of the obligations of the Abrahamic Covenant.
What are:
We can expect this from the other side of the veil when finding our ancestors.
What is help?
This prophetic statement describes the eternal importance of the family, declaring that "the disintegration of the family will bring upon individuals, communities, and nations the calamities foretold by ancient and modern prophets."
What is "The Family: A Proclamation to the World"?
This element of the Endowment ceremony symbolizes the progression of an individual from a telestial state to a celestial state and aligns with the three kingdoms of glory described in the Doctrine and Covenants.
What is the journey through the veil and the associated symbolic ordinances?
This is the reason why gathering records for genealogical research often becomes more challenging as you go further back in time.
What is the lack of standardized record-keeping practices, language barriers, and incomplete or lost historical documents?
This high priest of God received tithes from Abraham and blessed him, symbolizing Abraham’s acknowledgment of divine authority.
Who is Melchizedek?
This scripture teaches that the gospel was preached to those in the spirit world so that they might be judged according to men in the flesh but live according to God in the spirit.
What is 1 Peter 4:6?