Moses 7 is where the covenant pays off and breaks your heart at the same time.

Enoch has just seen the Great King of the cosmos weeping. His first response is bewilderment: “How is it that thou canst weep, seeing thou art holy, and from all eternity to all eternity?” (Moses 7:29).

The question makes sense. Power and grief seem like they should be incompatible. A Great King judges, rewards, or destroys his vassals. He doesn’t mourn them. Enoch’s question is every reader’s question.

The Great King’s answer changes everything: “I gave unto them their knowledge, in the day I created them; and in the Garden of Eden, gave I unto man his agency; and unto thy brethren have I said, and also given commandment, that they should love one another” (Moses 7:32).

He weeps because the covenant is a relationship.

He genuinely feels its loss.

Last week established the walking formula, the priesthood ordinances, and the plan revealed to Adam. This week shows what that covenant community looks like when it actually works, and what it costs the Great King when the world around it refuses the same invitation.

Zion is built. Zion is taken up. The Great King weeps. Then Enoch intercedes for Noah’s children and receives a promise God makes unbreakable: that a remnant will always remain, that a Messiah will come, and that the city taken up will return.