Complete Fulfillment, Part 1
“Know therefore that the LORD your God is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant and steadfast love with those who love him and keep his commandments” (Deut. 7:9). God is a covenant keeping God. It is through covenant relationships that God has chosen to reveal his character (and ours), and it is through covenants that he accomplishes his “plan for the fullness of time, to unite all things in [Christ], things in heaven and things on earth” (Eph. 1:10). This is why covenants form the backbone of the Bible’s story, and this is why a proper understanding of the Bible's covenants and how they relate to each other is so essential to a correct understanding of Scripture and proper application of God's word to our lives. The graphic below * began to take shape in my mind during the biblical theology class I audited in August. It is a very simple picture of how the Bible's covenants fit together, how they all point to Christ, and how they all find their fulfillment in him. It ...