——————————————— Preface Early in my study of the Scriptures I was deeply disturbed by the accusations of those who saw all biblical history as the outworking of an implied covenant of redemption against those who held, as I did, to a distinction between God’s program for Israel and His program for the church in the present age. These theologians claimed that they alone had a system that unified the Scriptures into a consistent whole; any other, they insisted, destroyed the unity of the Bible. Almost