A. Once the covenant of grace had come to expression in the spiritual promises of the Abrahamic covenant, the Abrahamic covenant became salvifically definitive for all ages to come. Immediately after Adam’s tragic transgression of the “covenant of works,” which had been sovereignly imposed upon him by his Creator (Gen. 3:1–7; see Hos. 6:7), in the hearing of Adam God said to the serpent, and by extension to Satan himself: “I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and