Students worked on the following assignment. We will work on it again tomorrow, and then students will need to finish what is incomplete for homework due on Thursday.
An Unbroken Chain: The Promise
of the Promised Land
Central Questions
1.
What does it mean for a place to be a promised
land?
2.
What are the terms (conditions) of the promise
(covenant)?
3.
How has this covenant been fulfilled
historically?
4.
Does this covenant apply to all peoples of the
earth or only some of them?
Research
For each passage
below, do the following:
1.
Explain the historical occasion of the speech.
a.
Who is speaking?
b.
Who is the audience?
c.
What has just occurred that has occasioned the
speech?
2.
Explain the terms of the promise associated with
the land given in the speech.
3.
What is important about HOW the speaker says?
(Diction, images, tropes, syntax)
Abraham and His
Children
Genesis 13:14-17
The Israelites
following Moses
Deuteronomy 30:15-20
The Jaredites being
led to America
Ether 2:4-12
The Lehites (AKA:
Nephites) being led to America
2 Nephi 1:1-12
Captain Moroni Renews
the Covenant with His People
Alma 46:1-24
John Winthrop and the
Puritans
From “A Model of Christian Charity”
“Thus stands the cause between God and us. We are entered
into covenant with Him for this work, we have taken out a commission, the Lord
hath given us leave to draw our own articles we have professed to enterprise
these actions upon these and these ends, we have hereupon besought Him of favor
and blessing. Now if the Lord shall please to hear us, and bring us in peace to
the place we desire, then hath He ratified this covenant and sealed our
commission, [and] will expect a strict performance of the articles contained in
it, but if we shall neglect the observations of these articles which are the
ends we have propounded, and dissembling with our God, shall fall to embrace
this present world and prosecute our carnal intentions seeking great things for
ourselves and our posterity, the Lord will surely break out in wrath against
us, be revenged of such a perjured people, and make us know the price of the
breach of such a covenant.
“Now the only way to avoid this shipwreck and to provide for
our posterity is to follow the counsel of Micah, to do justly, to love mercy,
to walk humbly with our God. For this end we must be knit together in this work
as one man, we must entertain each other in brotherly affection, we must be
willing to abridge ourselves of our superfluities for the supply of others'
necessities, we must uphold a familiar commerce together in all meekness,
gentleness, patience, and liberality, we must delight in each other, make
others' conditions our own, rejoice together, mourn together, labor and suffer
together, always having before our eyes our commission and community in the
work, our community as members of the same body So shall we keep the unity of
the spirit in the bond of peace. The Lord will be our God and delight in all
our ways, so that we shall see much more of His wisdom, power, goodness, and
truth than formerly we have been acquainted with. We shall find that the God of
Israel is among us, when ten of us shall be able to resist a thousand of our
enemies, when He shall make us a praise and glory, that men shall say of
succeeding plantations, the Lord make it like that of New England. For we must
consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people are
upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have
undertaken and so cause Him to withdraw His present help from us, we shall be
made a story and byword throughout the world, we shall open the mouths of
enemies to speak evil of the ways of God and all professors for God's sake, we
shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers
to be turned into curses upon us till we be consumed out of the good land
whither we are going. And to shut up this discourse with that exhortation of
Moses, that faithful servant of the Lord in His last farewell to Israel, Deut.
30., Beloved there is now set before us life and good, death and evil, in that
we are commanded this day to love the Lord our God, and to love one another, to
walk in His ways and to keep His commandments and His ordinance, and His laws,
and the articles of our covenant with Him that we may live and be multiplied,
and that the Lord our God my bless us in the land whither we go to possess it.
But if our hearts shall turn away so that we will not obey, but shall be
seduced and worship other Gods, our pleasures, our profits, and serve them, it
is propounded unto us this day we shall surely perish out of the good land
whither we pass over this vast sea to possess it. Therefore let us choose life,
that we, and our seed, may live, and by obeying His voice, and cleaving to Him,
for He is our life and our prosperity.”
Early Mormon Pioneers
Doctrine and Covenants 38:18-22
Please also study the talk by Jeffrey R. Holland called, "A Promised Land."
Record Your Answers
1.
What does it mean for a place to be a promised
land?
2.
What are the terms (conditions) of the promise
(covenant)?
3.
How has this covenant been fulfilled
historically?
4.
Does this covenant apply to all peoples of the
earth or only some of them?
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