Republication of the Covenant of Works on Sinai

This subject of the republication (as opposed to the reestablishment) of the Covenant of Works on Sinai is rather easy to understand if you have a basic understanding of Federal Theology to begin with. People who can't see it tend to be a bit dense or just lazy. The others though who fulminate against it very well understand it, but don't want anybody else to understand it *because* they are false teachers.

False teachers these days *love* biblical theology as opposed to systematic theology. They *love* covenant theology as opposed to Federal Theology. Why? Because when they are able to stay in the mush of biblical/covenant theology and keep their audience forever in the 'forever learning/never coming to understanding' biblical/covenant theology they are able to have endless cover for the tripe that is their various false teachings.

*They don't want you to know that Federal Theology is classical Covenant Theology systematized.*

They despise Federal Theology because *it is apostolic biblical doctrine.*

Notice how they *love* to continually change the terminology of covenant theology. They want to keep covenant theology eternally unsettled. Mush. Their personal playground giving them cover for whatever new false teaching they want to promote.

The Covenant of Works made in the Garden with pre-fall Adam was *republished* on Sinai (the Mosaic Covenant) because Jesus needed to be born under the law, and he needed the law to be known and present in the minds of National Israel (and the world generally) to be able to fulfill what the first Adam failed to fulfill. Ask yourself: was Jesus supposed to 'not eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil'?

Jesus - the second Adam - accomplished what Adam in the garden failed to accomplish. Jesus fulfilled the requirements of the Covenant of Works. *Only* Jesus could fulfill the Covenant of Works *after the fall.*

There is *one* way to be saved: works. Either your own (good luck if you rely on your own) or Jesus', appropriated by faith.

Jesus fulfilled the Covenant of Works. All that that was given to Moses by God on Sinai. Jesus was born under that law and fulfilled that law *to a 't'.*

The first Adam was told to not eat of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. The law on Sinai is an elaboration of that law. We see that even where Jesus was being tempted by the devil that there is more involved - there is not an exact symmetry - than how the devil tempted Eve and Adam. Special revelation itself as it appears in time (and culminates in the closed canon) is all about elaboration and increasing fullness of revealing.

Another foundational aspect of this *that nobody talks about*: National Israel is as unique a player in God's plan of redemption as pre-fall Adam and Jesus Himself.

For salvation the Israelites were in our position. Only faith in the coming Messiah saved them (as for us only faith in the Saviour already come saves us). But beyond that National Israel was a type for Jesus Christ. They were the bloodline from Adam as well. They were also unique in that they were the actual *material* of the Word of God. Their history is the substance of special revelation, the Old and New Testaments. They followed the laws on Sinai as a type for Jesus following that law. They couldn't follow it perfectly anymore than we can today, but they - and we - *were taught this by their example* (it becoming the very Word of God itself), and eventually Jesus would come and *would* follow it perfectly.

The biography of Jesus mirrors the history of the Israelites. National Israel was a type for Jesus.

The two Adams *are the spine* of Federal Theology. *False teachers despise Federal Theology* because Federal Theology is apostolic biblical doctrine and *convicts* them and their satanic demands and schemes and false teachings.

There is 'disingenuous bewilderment' in the pious fulminating you hear against any notion of a republication of the Covenant of Works on Sinai. There is also, as stated, genuine ignorance of the subject (if not terminal denseness). The objectors who are false teachers should be easy to discern though. If you have the Spirit of Discernment which only comes from having the Holy Spirit in you.

And their eager use of the name Kline as a swear/scare word gives them away as having the usual theonomic/Federal Vision influence, (but those schools are pretty much generic false biblical teaching by this time, a say-anything catch-all sewer of our modern times for people who have the spirit of false teaching in them to begin with.)