In spite of humanity’s rebellion against God, His great love was revealed in His purpose to bless humanity, which was made known in His post-fall redemptive promise to crush the head of the the serpent with the seed of the woman (Gen 3:15). God then began to implement this plan of redemption, through the means of covenants, in order to mercifully bring humanity back into the fellowship of the the divine life and glory that He originally intended for us. The essence of the covenant between God and man is “I will be your God, and you will be My people.” The progressive unfolding nature of the covenants with Noah, Abraham, Moses, and David laid the covenantal groundwork for the culmination of God’s redemptive work in His new covenant in Christ. These successive covenants of Scripture form a unity. The probationary covenant of life by which man was to keep God’s commandments perfectly was ultimately and consummately fulfilled by Christ, God in the flesh. That covenant of grace is where God’s elect are attributed Christ’s satisfaction by faith. Thus, the nation of Israel shares a primary role in God’s self-revelation in redemptive history. It is the revelation unfolding through the Old Testament that provides the crucial framework for understanding God’s complete self-revelation through Jesus Christ.
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