through a covenant communion in both the old and new covenants because the everlasting gospel is available in both eras. Rousas Rushdoony notes the following: The word telos is the root of the English word teleology, i.e. the shaping of things to a purpose, a word suggestive of providence. Thus, Christ is not the destruction of the law of God but the perfect expression thereof. He is righteousness incarnate. Paul then goes on to speak of the necessity of faith, of a total expression