God's Covenant with the Anti-Nephi-Lehites
- Sign/Testimony of the Covenant:
- Alma 24:15-16
- 15 Oh, how merciful
is our God! And now behold, since it has been as much as we could do to get our
stains taken away from us, and our swords are made bright, let us hide them
away that they may be kept bright, as a testimony to our God at the last day, or
at the day that we shall be brought to stand before him to be judged, that we have not stained our
swords in the blood of our brethren since he imparted his word unto us and has
made us clean thereby.
16 And now, my brethren, if our brethren seek
to destroy us, behold, we will hide away our swords, yea, even we will bury
them deep in the earth,
that they may be kept bright, as a testimony that we have never used them, at
the last day; and if our brethren destroy us, behold, we shall go to our
God and shall be saved.
- Three Ordinances/Tokens/Statutes of the Covenant:
- 1. Give up lives rather than shed blood
- 2. Give instead of take
- 3. Labor abundantly instead of be idle
- Alma 24:18
- 18 And this they did, it being in their view a
testimony to God, and also to men, that they never would use weapons again for
the shedding of man’s blood; and this they did, vouching and covenanting with
God, that rather than
shed the blood of their brethren they would give up their own lives; and rather than take away from a brother they would give unto him; and rather than spend their days in idleness they would labor abundantly with
their hands.
- Penalty of Covenant
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