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Kingdom through Covenant: A Biblical-Theological Understanding of the Covenants (Second Edition) is unavailable, but you can change that!

Kingdom through Covenant is a careful exposition of how the biblical covenants unfold and relate to one another—a widely debated topic, critical for understanding the narrative plot structure of the whole Bible. By incorporating the latest available research from the ancient Near East and examining implications of their work for Christology, ecclesiology, eschatology, and hermeneutics, scholars...

In fact, word and act often follow a general order in Scripture: first comes a preparatory word, then the divine act, and finally the interpretive word. For example, in the giving of the old covenant, we first see a preparatory word (Exodus 19), then the divine act of giving the law (Exodus 20), and finally an interpretative explanation of the law (Exodus 21–23; 25–31). This same order may be observed of the Bible as a whole. The Old Testament is the predictive word that anticipates greater realities
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