covenant is its greatest truth and central focus (only God is that), but because covenant is the framework that shapes all biblical revelation. Robert Rollock (c. 1555–1598) said, “All the word of God appertains to some covenant; for God speaks nothing to man without the covenant.”26 The word translated as “covenant” occurs 284 times in the Old Testament (Hebrew berith) and thirty-three times in the New Testament (Greek diathēkē). The Bible recognizes a plurality of “covenants” that God made with