The gospel covenant, the new and everlasting covenant, has been in existence from the days of Adam. Its rights and privileges and responsibilities continued from Adam through the antediluvian patriarchs-Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared, Enoch, Methuselah, Lamech, and Noah.
From Noah the blessings of the gospel continued-albeit through periods of apostasy and restoration-through ten generations until the days of Abraham. God renewed his covenant, the gospel covenant, with Abraham.
Because Abraham was a restorer; because he was a dispensation head; because more scriptural information regarding the terms and conditions of the covenant are given in God’s dealings with Abraham than elsewhere in holy writ; and because Abraham received the covenant and lived worthy of its consummate privileges, even exaltation and godhood-because of these things we have come to call the covenant which God makes with his people the Abrahamic covenant.
In that covenant God promises Abraham four things: