this final covenant will have a sign to confirm it. The covenant with Noah had the rainbow; the covenant with Abraham had circumcision, and the Sinai covenant had sprinkled blood. Appropriately, the final covenant will have ‘an everlasting sign’, which will be nothing less than a permanently renewed universe (55:13). Here is the climax of the whole movement of these two chapters with their review of the various covenants. The final covenant between God and his people will not cancel out the earlier