{"id":1829,"date":"2014-05-16T18:16:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-17T00:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ldswomenofgod.com\/blog\/?p=1829"},"modified":"2018-02-22T13:21:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T19:21:40","slug":"women-and-the-abrahamic-covenant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reliefsocietywomen.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/16\/women-and-the-abrahamic-covenant\/","title":{"rendered":"Women and the Abrahamic Covenant"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Abrahamic Covenant is the promise God made that the whole world, by way of husbands and wives marrying in the covenant and having children under the covenant, will be able to return to Him. We recognize the covenant through the words of His only Begotten, Jesus Christ, and we enter in at the gate of baptism, pledging ourselves His. Upon entering the temple, we receive His most glorious promise of the New and Everlasting Covenant where we are sealed to one another, and to Him, forever and ever, according to our desire and righteousness.<\/span><\/p>\n

Because of what Joseph Smith told the Relief Society sisters at that first meeting in Nauvoo, we know that women have been organized on the earth whenever the men were organized. In each dispensation, the men have been given the responsibility of the priesthood. Women too have been organized. The priesthood and the women have worked side by side, since Adam and Eve, to bring to pass the eternal life of all mankind.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Old Testament is full of examples of principles in action, and the story of Abraham and Sarah, Isaac and Rebekah, as well as Jacob and Rachel, are no exceptions. We learn a lot about marriage from Isaac and Rebekah. In chapters 24-31 of Genesis, we see these examples:\"isaac-meeting-rebecca-by-friedrich-bouterwek\"<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n