BELIEVING BLOOD OF ISRAEL

 

I Will Go Before Your Face by Kenneth R. Turner

“To the missionaries of the latter-days the Lord has said: “Ye are called to bring to pass the gathering of mine elect, for the Lord explained, ‘mine elect hear my voice and harden not their hearts’ (D&C 29:7). For theirs was a ‘believing blood’. What then is believing blood? It is the blood that flows in the veins of those who are the literal seed of Abraham – not that the blood itself believes, but that those born in that lineage have both the right and a special spiritual capacity to recognise, receive, and believe the truth.

“The term is simply a beautiful, a poetic, and a symbolic way of referring to the seed of Abraham to whom the promises were made. It identifies those who developed in pre-mortality the talent to recognise the truth and to desire righteousness.” (New Witness, 38-39)

-          (McConkie and Millet, Doctrinal Commentary On The Book of Mormon, Vol 2, 61)

 

I remember coming to You

Long ago through the water’s gate,

So wide open for my soul to embrace.

 

You flowed through my heart since that day

Showing me the wonder of You;

I have seen Your agonizing sacrifice,

And Your spilt blood too.

 

I hear You, I am Your sheep,

I know You and Your sacrificial pains

For the believing blood of Israel

Runs through my veins.

 

-          Cathryne Allen