In our last episode of Anchored by Truth we took a look at two of the four covenants in the Bible that are named for the person the covenant was delivered to. Those four named covenants are the Noahic covenant, the Abrahamic covenant, the Mosaic covenant, and the Davidic covenant. Last time we looked at the Abrahamic and Mosaic covenants. That means that thus far we have gone through three cycles of a pattern that we see in redemptive history. The pattern involves God selecting one person to be the focus of his overall plan for redeeming a people for himself including being a direct ancestor of the promised Messiah. But then God watches his chosen representative or his descendants, or both, begin to depart from the commands God has given them. This necessitates God making another selection “down the road” to put the plan back on track. Thus far we’ve seen God do that with Adam, Noah, and Abraham. Adam, of course, got the whole plan started so Adam’s selection was different from that of Noah and Abraham since Adam and Eve were the only people on earth when they sinned the first time. In the case of Noah and Abraham God selected one person out of an earth that contained a sizeable population. But what all three had in common was that in all three cases God gave commands that were not only binding on the three but also their descendants.

This is episode 282.

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