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“Look unto Abraham…and unto Sarah” (2 Nephi 8:2)
The Prototype of a Covenant Marriage
Patrick D. Degn

2 Nephi 8:2 — Look unto Abraham your Father and unto Sarah

Phone rings.. “wo, wo, wo unto you.”… literally means “damn you”..

Abraham 1:2 — should memorize this.
If abraham is the prototype for a good father, husband, man.. 1:2 is how he did it.

10 from Adam is Noah.. 10 from Noah is Abraham..
7th Patriarch is Enoch.

Alma 31:5 — try the virtue of the word of God.

“True doctrine understood changes behavior and attitudes..” – Packer

You can divide Abrahams part up into two parts of 7 each.

From Abraham to David are 14 generations.. David to Babylon are 14 generations..
from Babylon to coming of Christ are 14 generations..
14 harkens back to the 14 trials of Abraham.
As we go through the first 7 we are crowned something.
Then we go through another 7 and we are crowned something.

Sarah = Princess of the Lord

Whatever God requires is right no matter whatever it is.. Prophet Joseph Smith

Can the Savior instantly age something? Relation to the creation? Water aged into the wine.

The Trials of Abraham and Sarah:
- Exalted Father ————– - Father of Nations (When does God change his name?.. in the covenant of Marriage)
1. Get thee out of Lekh Lekha (12:1) 1. Charity (18:1-15)
2. Obedience (12:10-20) 2. Sodom and Gomorrah (18:16-33)
3. Weightier matters of the Law (13:5-13) – now that he’s father, he has to go to the world to extract his kin.
- Abram was the tribal leader. 3. Abimelech (My father is king) (20)
- What he would have said would
have been law. But he gave Lot
the fertal land.
4. Battle of the kings of this world 4. Battle of hte wives (21:1-21)
- Genesis 14:1-6, 21-24
- Cities on the plain.. 6.
- v23 – I will not take dirty money
5. Battle with the god of this world (15) 5. Gentile (21:22-32)
- where he covenants - Abimelech
- note the # of animals and the ages - Phichol – find out what this means
(5 of them) (3 years old)
5 = fallen man
Gene 15:9
- v12-14 — like First Vision.
Satan knows whats going on here.
- 15:17 – God is making a covenant with him
6. Assault on the Family (16) 6. Sacrifice of the son (22:1-14)
- 16:13 - type and a shadow.
– Beer-lahai-roi – look in footnote - on the same place.. Morriah, ridge that Golgatha is.
– Well of Water - age
- Kadesh (city of Refuge) v14 – Better translation: on this mount the shall be seen
- Bered (son of Ephraim) It’s a prophecy..of what will be carried out on this mount.
— between the holy place and ephraim.
— temples and ephraimites.
7. The blessing of exaltation (17) 7. The blessing of eternal seed (22:15-19)

You twain (two) shall be one flesh..
Cleave has two meanings..
1. cut them in two
2. to hold to firmly and tightly to such a degree that the two bodies become one flesh
Cleave is a covenant word..

These same covenants are found in our Temples today..