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| Revelation given through Joseph Smith the Prophet, at Manchester, New York, April 1830. HC 1:79—80. This revelation was given to the Church in consequence of some who had previously been baptized desiring to unite with the Church without rebaptism. | ||
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D&C 22:1 BEHOLD, I say unto you that all
aold covenants have I caused to be done away in this thing;
and this is a new and an beverlasting
ccovenant, even that which was from the
beginninga.
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1a a new and an everlasting covenant, even that which was from the beginning This is the 'NEW' Covenant made with all pertaining to the Second Estate from the beginning. And it is made to be an 'EVERLASTING' Covenant, there being no other Covenant or way by which men may progress and pass through this Second Estate. Thus all those who did keep their First Estate, did enter into it in the foreordinations of the preexistance. And when it is placed into effect here upon the earth, by and through the priesthood powers of God unto the performing of the ordinances and covenants thereof, it is in effect whether as it was in the days of Adam, or wheneven, and it is and becomes the power of God unto the salvation of men making that which was of heaven enforce here in mortality. For this is his work and his glory to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man. To this end was this Second Estate created and it is unto this end that the Redemption was made, and it is unto this end the the Judgments of God will be made, in and of according to this 'New and Everlasting Covenant' of the Second Estate of man. It was 'New' unto the Second Estate. It was not 'New' only unto our day, for it was from the beginning in the days of Adam the same and is the same now and forever; it being the one and only 'New and Everlasting Covenant' which does pertain to the Salvation of this Second Estate, this temporal morality in which we now dwell. | |
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D&C 22:2 Wherefore, although a man should be baptized an hundred times it
availeth him nothing, for you cannot enter in at the strait gate by the
alaw of Moses, neither by your bdead
works.
D&C 22:3 For it is because of your dead works that I have caused this last covenant and this church to be built up unto me, even as in the days of old. D&C 22:4 Wherefore, enter ye in at the agate, as I have commanded, and bseek not to counsel your God. Amen.
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