in full in the future.”49 But the present form of the new covenant does not exhaust the Abrahamic promises which still await their fulfilment in the future, when the specific national promises to Israel are finally realized.50 In regard to how progressives understand the kingdom and its relation to the covenants there is a lot of similarity, as we will note below, with covenant theology. For one thing, there is no major distinction between the terms “kingdom of heaven” and “kingdom of God.” Further,