Book 2:
The First Pillar of Zion—The New and Everlasting Covenant

This book explores in detail the laws, ordinances and blessings comprising the New and Everlasting Covenant, the first pillar of Zion. This book also contrasts the Covenant with the customs of the Jewish marriage, which metaphor permeates the scriptures.

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Introduction

Section 5—Preface to the New and Everlasting Covenant

• The Plan of Happiness
• The covenant of the Gods
• Happiness encompasses all that is good
• Balancing justice and mercy
• Placed beyond our enemies
• How mercy appeases justice
• Experiencing contrasts leads to happiness
• Overview of the New and Everlasting Covenant
• The Covenant of Justice
• Who are the just, and how are they justified?
• Justification and agency
• Celestial Law
• Preserved, perfected and sanctified by the laws of God
• Blessed as if we understood
• The Covenant of Mercy
• Mercy and grace
• Justification
• Purification
• Sanctification
• Our responsibility
• The crucible—the baptism of fire
• Purified and sanctified to make an offering
• Oneness or unification
• Oneness and the Law of Restoration
• Restoration and resurrection
• Hundredfold restoration
• Restoration and overpayment of debt
• Oneness and deliverance
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 6—The New and Everlasting Covenant: The First Pillar of Zion

• The structure of the Covenant
• The New and Everlasting Covenant as an agreement
  • Introduction
  • The Covenant of Justice
  • Blessings for obedience
  • The Covenant of Mercy
  • Blessings for obedience
  • The Covenant of Baptism
  • Blessings for obedience
  • Agreement to renew and abide in the Covenant of Baptism
  • Blessings for obedience
  • Agreement to live the law of the Sabbath day
  • Blessings for obedience
  • Agreement to receive the covenant of the priesthood
  • Worthy men agree to be ordained
  • Blessings for obedience
  • Ordained men agree to magnify their calling
  • Blessings for obedience
  • Ordained men agree to continued faithfulness
  • Blessings for Obedience
  • Abide in the Covenant to the end
  • Blessings for enduring to the end
• The Father’s Guarantee
• Effective Signatures

Section 7—The New and Everlasting Covenant: Abide in the Covenant

• The leavening power of the doctrine of the Covenant
• The Covenant separates us from Babylon—the world
• Zion people are distinguished by observing the Sabbath day
• Power in the Covenant
• Other powers manifested in the Covenant
• Safety in the Covenant
• Safety through consecration in the Covenant
• The great discovery
• Examples of safety in the Covenant
• Progressing in the Covenant
• Discovering the relationship through progression
• Order in the Covenant
• Order and ordinances
• Order and consecration
• Abide in the Covenant
• Abiding in the Covenant summons divine love
• Abiding in the Covenant through the sacrament
• Summary and Conclusion

Section 8—The New and Everlasting Covenant—The Holy Marriage

• Born to Marry
• The Parents’ Responsibility and the Bride’s Choice
• Requirements to Legalize the Covenant
• Initiating the Marriage Proposal
• Entering into the Covenant
• Bought with a Price
• The Marriage Contract
• The Gift of Value
• The Pledge
• The Cup to Seal the Covenant
• The Covenantal Feast
• The Father’s Announcement
• The Bride’s Veil
• The Friend of the Bridegroom
• Preparing for Each Other
• The Serious Nature of Preparing
• The Bride’s Final Preparations
• Invitation to the Wedding
• The Wedding Processional
• Claiming the Bride
• The Wedding
• The Bridegroom’s Plea
• Postlude