Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10068. The covenants with Israel are the backbone of biblical prophecy, and if you get them right a great deal else falls into place. There are five of them, and four are unconditional promises that God binds Himself to keep regardless of the nation’s behaviour. A covenant in Scripture is not a contract between…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10020. Unconditional covenants and conditional covenants are the two hinges on which all of biblical prophecy swings, and learning to tell them apart is, I would argue, the single most clarifying skill a Bible reader can acquire. Get the distinction, and Israel’s history, the security of the believer, and the certainty of the Millennium…
Reading Time: 6 minutesQuestion 10005. The Abrahamic covenant is the backbone of biblical eschatology, and I choose the word backbone deliberately: remove it and the entire prophetic skeleton collapses into a heap of disconnected hopes. Made four thousand years ago with one man from Ur, this covenant governs the storyline of Scripture from Genesis 12 to Revelation 22,…