E. The requisite condition for salvation is identical in both the Old and New Testaments: the elect were saved, are saved, and will be saved only by grace through faith in the (anticipated or accomplished) work of the Messiah. Dispensational scholars maintain that no Old Testament saint could have been saved through conscious faith in the Messiah’s death work, simply because knowledge of this event was “as yet locked up in the secret counsels of God.”26 The Westminster Confession, on the other