Covenant & Kingdom

After the fall, God begins His rescue plan not with an army, but with a family. He calls Abraham and makes a covenant — a binding promise: "In you all the families of the earth shall be blessed" (Genesis 12:3).

A people and a rescue

Abraham's family grows into Israel, whom God rescues from slavery in Egypt — the exodus, the Bible's great picture of salvation. At Sinai He gives them the law: not a ladder to climb to earn God's love, but a way of life for an already-rescued people.

Kings and prophets

Israel asks for kings. The best of them, David, receives another promise: a son of David will reign on an everlasting throne (2 Samuel 7). But king after king fails, the nation fractures and falls into exile, and the prophets keep pointing forward — to a new covenant, a suffering servant, a true King.